Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His works focus on interpreting data, either gathered by the artist or publicly available, into musical arrangements: \"Mapping them to music allows data that is usually cold, distant and sterile to become more emotionally felt and immediate. In a way, it is a type of synesthesia, allowing a mixing of senses, or in this case, ways of thinking and experiencing the world.\"His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014s \"One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano\", which the The Japan Times has called a \"provocative composition\" and Wired magazine has called \"a haunting piano score\". The sonification of Japanese suicide data was followed by similar projects mapping American crime statistics.Viner's second work to achieve widespread recognition was the more personal \"Sex, Sensors & Sound\", called \"melancholic and beautiful\" by Vice magazine's online magazine and video channel Motherboard. sonification of kinetic data created by \"strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.\" \"Sex, Sensors & Sound\" has been featured in numerous publications worldwide."@en }
Showing triples 1 to 1 of
1
with 100 triples per page.
- Rory_Viner abstract "Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His works focus on interpreting data, either gathered by the artist or publicly available, into musical arrangements: \"Mapping them to music allows data that is usually cold, distant and sterile to become more emotionally felt and immediate. In a way, it is a type of synesthesia, allowing a mixing of senses, or in this case, ways of thinking and experiencing the world.\"His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014s \"One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano\", which the The Japan Times has called a \"provocative composition\" and Wired magazine has called \"a haunting piano score\". The sonification of Japanese suicide data was followed by similar projects mapping American crime statistics.Viner's second work to achieve widespread recognition was the more personal \"Sex, Sensors & Sound\", called \"melancholic and beautiful\" by Vice magazine's online magazine and video channel Motherboard. sonification of kinetic data created by \"strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.\" \"Sex, Sensors & Sound\" has been featured in numerous publications worldwide.".