Yuri Suzuki
I have been working on a lot of social and interactive projects recently, all based around speaking, listening and composition. I have found that music and sound are always able to transcend gender, age, and culture.
I am looking forward to seeing how the people of Kent can come together to create this piece with me, and how we can playfully humanise artificial intelligence. As a new resident in Margate I feel excited about the area’s creativity and am looking forward to seeing this project connect people during the festival.
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician.
He explores the realms of sound through designed pieces that examine the relationship between people and their environments, questioning how both music and sound evolve and create personal experiences.
Yuri was born in Tokyo in 1980. After studying Industrial design he worked with Maywa Denki, the Japanese electronic Art unit. During this period, Yuri developed a strong interest in the relationship between music and technology.
In 2005, Yuri moved to London to study Product Design at the Royal College of Art. Here Yuri developed his interest in the crossover of art, design and music and also analogue and digital technologies.
Central to Yuri’s practice is collaboration and he has worked with musicians such as will.i.am and Jeff Mills as well working alongside commercial clients such as Google to develop unique projects such as the AR Music Kit.
His work can be seen in several museum permanent collections including the Museum Of Modern Art in New York and he has had solo and group exhibitions at the Tate Britain London, Mudam Luxembourg, MoMA and the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. In 2016, he received the Designer of the Future award from Design Miami.
In 2018 Yuri Suzuki was appointed as a partner at Pentagram and started working as an artist within the world’s largest independently-owned design studio.
Based at Pentagram’s London studio, Yuri and his team work internationally pushing the boundaries of design, technology and sound crossing the fields of both low and high technology.
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