as to the first 20 seconds- sound is so pleased to be formed in this way
This reminds me a little of the kind of thing that Pink Floyd would do...very interesting.
@drakonis: yes this track is mostly field recordings cut together, but I did not make the recordings myself. They are from the freesound project - http://freesound.org - recorded by a variety of people. Their usernames are "eyecandyuk", "morgantj", "MisterPeter", and "gmni". Counting in Japanese is not easy :-)
Nan desuka? Trippy... This is what was going through my mind after a long lecture on the myriad prefixes used when counting different shapes in Japanese, just as I was falling asleep in class. Very intriguing use of sound bytes... field recordings I assume?