Isaiah Dufort is assistant director of the San Francisco Art & Film Program, an arts education non-profit making the arts accessible to Bay Area students. He is also an artist-in-residence at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
These are sound translations of anime TV show theme songs generated by listening to each song on a loop until the Japanese vocals suggest English words or phrases. The first words translated create a context that encourages further translations where the sound similarity between Japanese and English might not be as strong.