Futuresonic

A music project played by scanning 2D barcode graffiti across the city. The artist sprays a QR code (two-dimensional bar-code) in the street with a stencil. People who find the graffiti around the city take a snapshot of the code with a mobile phone. This then triggers music - in the form of an internet radio stream created by the artist - on the internet enabled phones. In this installation, Suzuki musically maps the city of Manchester by using this informative form of graffiti. He is interested in a connection between graffiti and pirate radio. Both are creative expressions that hack into public facilities. In the case of graffiti, the hacker uses the wall. In case of pirate radio, the hacker uses public radio waves illegally. It can be said that pirate radio is sound graffiti and Suzuki proposes to combine these two methods of graffiti.

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Biography

Yuri Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art group Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. During this time worked for the designer Moritz Waldemeyer and after graduating in 2008 opened his own studio. He is currently showing work in Nowhere_Now Here (Laboral AICC in Asturias, Spain) and presenting his first solo exhibition, The Physical Value Of Sound (Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan).

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