Rory Viner
Rory Viner | |
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| Born | Rory Viner May 31, 1983 London, Ontario, Canada |
| Known for | Sound art, installation art, experimental music |
Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a Canadian sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist, based in Tokyo, Japan.
Career
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]
His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014's 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 Motherboard, Vice's online magazine and video channel.[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 & Soun has been featured in numerous publications worldwide.[7][8][9]
Works
References
- 1 2 "Japanese suicide statistics mapped to music (Wired UK)". www.wired.co.uk. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014.
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- ↑ "A Canadian in Tokyo Made a Song Out of Japanese Suicide Statistics". Noisey.vice.com. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- ↑ Sunda, Mike. "Musician Rory Viner turns Japan's suicide statistics into a song". The Japan Times. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- ↑ "Musician Rory Viner Turns Japan's Suicide Statistics into a Song". August 19, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Stream Rory Viner music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud".
- 1 2 3 "What Real Sex Music Sounds Like".
- ↑ "Couple Uses Sensors to Turn Sex into a 'Depersonalized' Experience". October 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Seks przetworzony na dźwięki. Jak brzmi miłość? - Styl Życia - Newsweek.pl". stylzycia.newsweek.pl. Archived from the original on October 31, 2015.
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Canadian composers
- 21st-century Canadian male composers
- 21st-century Canadian male artists
- Artists from London, Ontario
- Artists from Tokyo
- Canadian expatriate musicians
- Canadian expatriates in Japan
- Canadian installation artists
- Canadian sound artists
- Composers from Tokyo
- Experimental composers
- Musicians from London, Ontario