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."[1]
Rory Viner | |
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| Born | Rory Viner 1983 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | sound art, installation art, experimental music |
His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014s "One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano" ,[2][3][4] which The Japan Times has called a "provocative composition" [5] and Wired magazine has called "a haunting piano score".[1] The sonification of Japanese suicide data was followed by similar projects mapping American crime statistics.[6]
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.[7] 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."[7] "Sex, Sensors & Sound" has been featured in numerous publications worldwide.[7][8][9]
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edit- ^ a b "Japanese suicide statistics mapped to music (Wired UK)". www.wired.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13.
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- ^ "A Canadian in Tokyo Made a Song Out of Japanese Suicide Statistics". Noisey.vice.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
- ^ Sunda, Mike. "Musician Rory Viner turns Japan's suicide statistics into a song". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
- ^ "Musician Rory Viner turns Japan's suicide statistics into a song". 19 August 2014.
- ^ a b c "Stream Rory Viner music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud".
- ^ a b c "What Real Sex Music Sounds Like".
- ^ "Couple Uses Sensors to Turn Sex into A 'Depersonalized' Experience". 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Seks przetworzony na dźwięki. Jak brzmi miłość? - Styl Życia - Newsweek.pl". stylzycia.newsweek.pl. Archived from the original on 2015-10-31.
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