The Welcome Chorus ist eine interaktive Installation aus 12 interaktiven Hörnern, die BesucherInnen in den Galerieraum einlädt. Das kollaborative Werk nutzt künstliche Intelligenz, um ein Klangerlebnis für die BesucherInnen zu schaffen. Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, um mit dem Begrüßungschor in Kontakt zu treten. Erstens wurden mit Hilfe von lokalen MusikerInnen in Workshops Texte und Melodien erstellt, um eine Sound Library zu generieren. Diese wurden dann in die KI eingespeist, um dann in der Ausstellung ausgegeben zu werden. Die zweite Möglichkeit besteht darin, die BesucherInnen zu ermutigen, in die Skulpturen hineinzusprechen, wodurch ein musikalisches Feedback von der KI erzeugt wird. Die KI erkennt tonale Veränderungen in der Stimme, im Tempo und in bestimmten Wörtern und erzeugt eine kurze Melodie, die auf dem Input der BesucherInnen basiert. Alle paar Minuten führt der Begrüßungschor ein kurzes Stück auf, das auf den Eingaben der vorangegangenen Stunden basiert. Dieser kontinuierliche Dialog schafft unerwartete Momente beim Betreten und Verlassen der Galerie. Jeder Moment ist einzigartig.
Credit: tom mesic
Credit: Kate Radiomargate
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Credit: Kate Radiomargate
Credit: tom mesic
Credit: Kate Radiomargate
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
Turner Contemporary, Arts Council England, Pentagram Design LTD, Fish Fabrications, Counterpoint. Special thanks to: Gabriel Vergar II, Alice Lazarus, Adam Cheong-MacLeod of Pentagram Design LTD, Eire Szadurski, Sam Fish of Fish Fabrications, and Samuel Diggins and Tero Parviainen of Counterpoint Studios.
Biography
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician. His practice explores the realms of sound through designed pieces that examine the relationship between people and their environments – questioning how both music and sound evolve to create personal experiences.
Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. After studying Industrial Design, he worked with Maywa Denki, the Japanese electronic art unit. During this period, Yuri began exploring the relationship between music and technology. In 2005, he moved to London to study product design at the Royal College of Art, where he further developed his interest in the crossover between art, design and music, using both analogue and digital technologies.
Central to Suzuki’s practice is collaboration – he has worked with various musicians including will.i.am and Jeff Mills, as well as commercial clients such as Google, with whom he developed a unique AR Music Kit.
His work can be seen in several international museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has had both 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 at Design Miami.
In 2018, Suzuki was appointed a partner at Pentagram, the world’s largest independently owned design studio, where he began working as an artist in the London studio, Here, Suzuki and his team work internationally, pushing the boundaries between art, design, technology and sound, crossing the fields of both low and high technology.
