London-based product/sound designer Yuri Suzuki's first major exhibition is currently open at the KK Outlet in London (run by our favorite advertising firm KesselsKramer), entitled Sound Interjection, and produced in partnership with Oscar Diaz.
Suzuki explores sound through designed objects, which have included hand cut and pressed records, singing tea kettles and a jellyfish theremin in the past, and, most recently the Color Chaser, a robot that produces sounds from markings on a piece of paper; Rec/Play pens, writing utensils that record and play back sound; and the Barcode Book, a graphic story that reveals information about itself through barcodes in the illustrations. From Dazed Digital's review of the show:
Suzuki's trademark is incorporating an audio experience into objects, adding sound to devices in a totally unprecedentedly interactive way to bring a joyously unexpected element to the most everyday of objects. Suzuki invites you sing to your jewellery and make a musical train track. Mixing off-the-wall ideas with hatchling synth technology, Suzuki's ephemeral piece, Jellyfish Thermin, allows Jellyfish to control the sound and lighting omitted from a clear Thermin, one of the oldest electronic musical instruments.
While browsing Yuri's website, we found his Vimeo channel, where all these (and more) are demoed. A few favorites are included here, but go see the exhibition if you can—it will stay up for the duration of the London Design Festival.
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