Yuri Suzuki
PAD Prize Nominee 2012
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, electronic musician and designer who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art unit Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology.
During his studies at the Royal College of Art, he worked on some projects for Yamaha and Moritz Waldemeyer, and after his graduation in 2008 he opened his own studio in London. Suzuki’s work raises questions of the relation between sound and people and how music and sound affect people’s mind.
Yuri Suzuki’s sound art pieces and installations have been shown in exhibitions all around the world. From 2011, he also became designer and visiting artist in Stockholm creative collective Teenage Engineering.
For PAD London Prize Yuri Suzuki will introduce a new work composed of ‘The sound of earth’ and ‘Sound chaser’.
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. I feel uneasy about the digitalisation of music because I feel anxious if they will survive to next generation. Digital based music media is just a “data”, in other words, “virtual”. When objects lose its physicality, they turn virtual.
Yuri Suzuki
Yuri Suzuki
