New exhibition curated by Crafts Council “Sound Matters”, presenting collaboration project with Dominic Willcox

See the Sound Matters website here http://www.soundmatters.org.uk/ There are audio interviews with all the artists to listen to.

Iona Gallery, Kingussie, Scotland , 1 June – 30 June 2013

St Fergus Gallery, Wick, Scotland , 6 July – 3 August 2013

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland , 10 August – 7 September 2013

Sound Matters considers the connections between craft practice and sound art. Seven contemporary works have been selected to illustrate ways in which these two distinct practices collide. Exploring the physicality of sound, the works are characterised by both their sonic properties and materiality The makers and artists represented in this exhibition demonstrate how an engagement with sound also implicates an engagement with matter. Drawn from across creative disciplines, each work is indicative of a different approach: looking to traditional craft heritage and processes such as weaving and woodturning to create new sound forms, playing with shared technologies and language and revealing the sounds of materials. With its equal emphasis on sound and form, Sound Matters offers a new and multi-sensory engagement with craft, with each work demanding to be heard as well as seen. With works of varying scale and volume, it is as important to listen as to look to fully experience the show. The audio content presented on this website was produced by Resonance 104.4FM, a radio station dedicated to experimental sound and radio art. The recordings feature each of the makers and artists in conversation with the exhibition’s curatorial advisor, David Toop, Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London.

Delighted to announce new installation project at MUDAM Luxembroug “Looks Like Music“

Mudam Public Summer Project

Looks Like Music is an installation by Yuri Suzuki centered around his sound piece Colour Chaser: a miniature robot that detects and follows a black line while reading crossing coloured lines and translating this data into sound. Visitors are free to draw on paper and simultaneously compose music, thus creating a large scale picture and a sound piece at the same time.

Yuri Suzuki will have new sound installation at Victoria and Albert Museum London this September “Garden of Russolo”.

The installation “Garden of Russolo” is based on previous project White Noise Machine.
From 14th to 20th September at Sackler Centre Reception, 21st to 22nd September at John Madejski Garden for Digital Design Weekend.

Supported by ICN gallery

Click here to view the embedded video.

in collaboration with Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev

The Ishin-Den-Shin interactive installation addresses physicality and intimacy in digital audio communication. It consists of a microphone that can record sounds and transmit them through touch. Once recorded, the sound is transformed in an inaudible signal.  This signal is transmitted to a person’s body when holding the microphone. The signal can be transmitted by physical contact, from body to body. The recorded sound becomes audible only when touching someones ear. The sound can be heard only by the specific ear which is touched, as if the finger would be whispering the recorded sounds. Secrets, messages and whispers can then be transmitted from person to person in physical contact with each others. Bodies become a broadcasting medium for intimate, physical, sound communication.

A Shure 55 microphone is connected to a computer’s sound card. The microphone is recording as soon as a sounds of amplitude higher than a set threshold is sensed. The computer then create a loop with the recording, that is sent back to an amplification driver. This amplification driver converts the recorded sound signal into a high voltage, low current (<300 Vpp, <50 uA) inaudible signal. The output of the amplification hardware is connected to the conductive metallic casing of the microphone via a very thin, almost invisible wire wrapped around the microphone audio cable. When holding the microphone, the visitor comes in contact with the inaudible, high voltage, low power version of the recorded sound. This creates a modulated electrostatic filed around the visitors’ skin. When touching another person’s ear, this modulated electrostatic field creates a very small vibration of the ear lobe. As a result, both the finger and the ear together form a speaker, that makes the signal audible for the person touched. The inaudible signal can be transmitted from body to body, using any sort of physical contact.

Delighted to announce Yuri Suzuki got Honorary Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica
Both Sound Art and Interactive Art category 2013.

DIGITAL MUSICS AND SOUND ART
Anerkennung – Honorary Mentions

The Sound of the Earth / Yuri Suzuki (JP/UK)
yurisuzuki.com/works/the-sound-of-the-earth-2/ 

INTERACTIVE ART
Anerkennung – Honorary Mentions

Ishin-Den-Shin / Olivier Bau (FR), Yuri Suzuki(JP), Ivan Poupyrev (RU)
http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/ishin-den-shin/

Cora Bellotto + Laura Malinverni, Berg, Fernanda Bertini Viegas + Martin Wattenberg, Marc Bretillot + David Edwards, Eyal Burstein, Oscar Diaz + Yuri Suzuki, Pierre Favresse, Alicia Framis, Amanda Ghassaei, Ai Hasegawa, Anna Haupt + Terese Alstin, Jannis Huelsen, Jin Hyun Jeon, Gabriele Meldaikyte, Nicolas Nova + Katie Miyake + Nancy Kwon + Walton Chiu, Pieter-Jan Pieters, Veronica Ranner, Matt Richardson, Superflux, Thomas Thwaites, Varathit Uthaisri, Andrea Valle, Alissa Van Asseldonk, Imme Van Der Haak, Dane Whitehurst, Dominic Wilcox

project by Logotel
 
Project & Content Manager Cristina Favini
 
Curators Susanna Legrenzi, Stefano Maffei
 
  La mostra (In)visible Design indaga i nuovi scenari possibili della complessità attraverso 26 progettifirmati da designer e artisti internazionali, impegnati in ricerche ai margini dell’invisibile. Il corpo centrale della mostra – una raccolta di progetti, prototipi, installazioni, video è completato da una vasta documentazione di case history ibridate da scienza, tecnologia, arte, letteratura, cinema, grafica – che vanno a delineare uno storytelling esteso e trasversale. Con la stessa prospettiva, i progetti in mostra aprono nuovi interrogativi sulle pratiche di processo: accanto alla riscoperta del “making” esistono nuove capabilities in grado di produrre una trasformazione cognitiva proiettata oltre il semplice comprendere e pre-vedere (con gli occhi). Il risultato è un modo di leggere/interpretare il design come strumento per immaginare, sperimentare e discutere, integrando creatività dei singoli e creatività di network, ricerca, processo e visione. Dalla tracciabilità dei venti (Fernanda Bertini Viegas + Martin Wattenberg) alle sollecitazioni del gusto (Marc Bretillot & David Edwards), dalle potenzialità del suono (Pieter Jan Pieters) alle nuove pratiche di narrazione (Matt Richardson), dalla tracciabilità del gesto (Nicolas Nova) sino alle soglie della biologia sintetica (Superflux). In una parola: il futuro.

Apertura al pubblico
Mar 9, Ven 12 e Sab 13 10.00  – 20.00
Mer 10   10.00  – 22.00
Gio 11    10.00  – 13.00
Dom 14 10.00  – 18.00

http://www.jfroma.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184%3Ale-installazioni-sonore-di-yuri-suzuki&catid=4%3Aconferenze&Itemid=6&lang=it