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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
The Physical Value of Sound
Yuri Suzuki
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“The Physical Value of Sound” consists of series of products that allow people to realize the physicality of music. Recently, the media that surround us have changed from analog to digital—for instance, photography, film and music. These days, most sounds are recorded only digitally. I feel uneasy about digitalization of music because I wonder if it will survive to the next generation. Digitally based music media is just “data”, in other words, “virtual”. When objects lose physicality, they become virtual. I strongly believe that the record is still the latest and the finest media in analog recording technology. If you think of Edison’s gramophone record, it is clear that records can survive and can be listened to hundreds of years later. The record is the only commonly available, playable media that is physical, and in this project I used this diminished format as the raw material. I hope the experience of this project will provoke people’s interest in this physical music media.
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Yuri Suzuki (JP), born in Tokyo in 1980, he worked for Maywadenki from 1999 to 2005, where he deveioped a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. During this time he worked for Moritz Waldemeyer, and after his graduation in 2008 he opened his own Studio.