One of the first projects featured on Everyday Listening was Yuri Suzuki’s Prepared Turntable, a wonderfully simple but clever idea. In the ‘Design’ section of his website you will find many other great sound art projects.
Yuri Suzuki, born in Tokyo and currently living in London, is product designer and electronic musician. Sound art is not the only thing he does. Check out the Breakfast Machine he created with Masa Kimura for instance, quite a remarkable installation!
It is great to see how normal, simple things can be transformed into a piece of art, or with some small modifications gain completely new functionality. These are his answers to the Five Sound Questions:
1. What sound from your childhood made the most impression on you?
I really love this music clip when I was child, maybe my all interest came from this video. I almost saw this video every night: Herbie Hancock - Rockit
2. How do you listen to the world around you?
I extremely hate big noise, like shouting and so on. In the same time, I love big sound. And I love silence as well, but it makes me nervous.
3. Which place in the world do you favor for its sound?
I really like the sound of silence in mid night, the noise always comes from big cities like Tokyo, New York and London.
4. How could we make sound improve our lives?
This is one of my big topics of creation. My “Re-design soundscape” series came from this question. This is one project from the series:
5. What sound would you like to wake up to?
I normally wake up without any sound.