Yuri Suzuki, The Physical Value of Sound
0Posted by DJ-ONE | June 14, 2009Solo Exhibition in Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 6th March-16th May 2009
The Physical Value of Sound (Solo Exhibition in Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 6th March-16th May 2009) consists of series of products which allow people to realize the physicality of music.
Recently, the media that surround us has changed from analog to digital — for instance, photography, film and music. These days, most sounds are recorded only digitally. Yuri Suzuki feels uneasy about digitalisation of music because he wonders if they will survive to next generation. Digital based music media is just “data”, in other words, “virtual”. When objects lose physicality, they turn into virtual.
We strongly believe too that record is still the latest, and the finest media in analogue recording technology. If you think of Edison’s gramophone record, it is clear that records can survive and can be listened to after hundreds of years. Record is the only commonly available, playable media which is physical and in this project I used this diminished format as the raw materiel.
Hopefully the experience of this project will provoke people’s interest to this physical music media.
