Yuri Suzuki

Born in Tokyo, Suzuki graduated with an MA in Product Design from the Royal College of Art and has lived in London since 2005. In 2010 he gained a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Augmented Reality from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne. He is a designer, sound artist and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces. His work raises questions about the relationship between sound and people and how music and sound affect the mind. Yuri is fascinated by accessibility to technology and user interaction. His creations are mostly entertainment. They are electronic apparatuses producing sounds and music: robots that transform colours into music; electric and digital interpretations of traditional musical instruments; music players inspired by pop culture and vinyl albums. These objects encourage user creativity, to experience good vibrations and phenomenological readings of the musical space. Suzuki’s view is highly ironic. His products, some of them created in small numbers, are coloured, strangely anthropomorphic and witty. His entire work is a positive critique of both the world of contemporary music and the DJ character – the ultimate creator and mixer of sounds. The title of one of his installations, “Make Something from Nothing”, could be considered his work’s motto. Design Associate at the Walt Disney Research, in 2013 Yuri founded Dentaku Ltd which is an R&D consultancy for companies such as Widen and Kennedy, KKoutlet and AIAIAI.