Garden of Russolo
Yuri Suzuki's interactive sound installation at the V&A used visitors' voices to produce a bizarre sonic experience


The Garden of Russolo was an interactive sound installation by Yuri Suzuki commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum and ICN gallery, a sonic experience that distorted users' voices and showed at the V&A museum during the 2013 London Design Festival in September.
The auditory installation is based on the artist’s previous sound-activated work White Noise Machines. A series of phonograph-like wooden boxes compose the exhibition, re-interpreting audio input into a muffled atmospheric output, twisting and amplifying the original soundtracks. Suzuki was influenced by one of the first experimental composer of all time, the futurist painter and composer Luigi Russolo (1883 - 1947). Have a listen to his groundbreaking work Macchina Tipografica, composed about a 100 years ago.



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