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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 Sound of the Earth
Yuri Suzuki
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_The Sound of the Earth_ is a spherical vinyl record and record player that can play back the sounds stored on it. The surface of the globe is engraved just like a normal vinyl but recording the sound in 3D instead of a flat surface—the grooves representing the outlines of the geographic land mass.
Each country on the disk is engraved with a different sound; as the needle passes over it plays field recordings collected by Yuri Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years—traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken broadcasts.
The record player uses a bush roller chain to move the stylus from the north pole to the south pole. A full journey across the earth takes around 30 minutes. The stylus has a small speaker and an amplifier to generate sound. As the record player moves across the earth in a spiral, the _Sounds of the Earth_ are split into fragments which you hear as the stylus moves over the seas and borders of the world.
Links: http://yurisuzuki.com/works/the-sound-of-the-earth-2/
Each country on the disk is engraved with a different sound; as the needle passes over it plays field recordings collected by Yuri Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years—traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken broadcasts.
The record player uses a bush roller chain to move the stylus from the north pole to the south pole. A full journey across the earth takes around 30 minutes. The stylus has a small speaker and an amplifier to generate sound. As the record player moves across the earth in a spiral, the _Sounds of the Earth_ are split into fragments which you hear as the stylus moves over the seas and borders of the world.
Links: http://yurisuzuki.com/works/the-sound-of-the-earth-2/
Concept collaboration - Yoshihiro Katsumata
Hardware development - KIMURA(Tasco Inc) / Akichika Tanaka
Sound Programming - Bengt Sjölén
Special thanks to Vestax
Hardware development - KIMURA(Tasco Inc) / Akichika Tanaka
Sound Programming - Bengt Sjölén
Special thanks to Vestax
Yuri Suzuki (JP / UK), born 1980, is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for the Japanese art unit 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. 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 minds.