Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work exploring the realms of sound between 1999 and 2005 he worked for the Japanese art project Maywa Denki after which he studied at the Royal College of Art. He has completed projects for Yamaha and Moritz Waldemeyer and in 2008 he opened his own London-based studio. In 2013 Suzuki was appointed as a tutor in the Product Design department at RCA, and became an associate for Disney, Teenage Engineering, and the New Radiophonic Workshop. In the same year he set up a consulting firm called Yuri Suzuki Creative Lab.
Image and video courtesy Disney Research
Remember your childhood fantasies of telepathic communication? This installation by the multitalented Yuri Suzuki is as close as you’re likely to get to the experience. In Ishin-Den-Shin, (created in collaboration with Oliver Bau and Ivan Poupyrev for Disney Research) a modified microphone translates a speaker’s voice into an inaudible signal. Using the body as a broadcasting medium, the recording can then be transmitted via touch – say, by putting your finger to a friend’s ear. The message ecipient then hears the words spoken into the microphone as if they were being whispered. The work’s title fittingly refers to a Japanese term for an unspoken yet mutually understood idea. I (ew)
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