Bug’s Beat

Yumi SASAKI + Dorita TAKIDO

The sound of bug’s footsteps that human cannot hear normally.
Bug’s Beat transmits the amplified sound of bug’s footsteps directly to human auditory through directional speaker.

And by vibrating the listening chair through vibration speaker every time the bug takes a step, this device makes the observer to sense sound as bodily sensation.

From the little bug one “visually” sees, one can “auditory” hear the bug’s footsteps as a large sound, and can “tactility” feel the sound as a vibration. A gap between visual, actual auditory, and tactile will be formed, and the brain will addle to the scale of oneself and of small bug’s life.

An interactive system of life and sound that arouses new sense by sight and auditory and bring new sense of values.

-AWARDS/SELECTIONS
2017.09 Prix Ars Electronica DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART Honorary Mentions (Bug’s Beat)
2017.09 STARTS PRIZE（Nomination） (Bug’s Beat)
2016.09 “Kyoui no Heya (Room of Wonder)” art space kimura ASK?, Japan

-SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS
2017.04 “Tweetakt Festival 2017″ Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan, Utrecht the Neterlands
2017.03 “Ooinaru nitijyo（The Great Ordinary）” workshop of Bug’s Beat. Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Kyoto in Japan
2016.02 “Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2016″ The Garden Hall, Japan

Thanks to:
Shiro YAMAMOTO and Takeshi INARIMORI
Yoshio YAMASAKI, Professor Emeritus, Acoustic Laboratory Waseda University
Tarô ADATI, Professor, Department of International Agricultural Development,Tokyo University of Agriculture
Kenji SUDA, The Musashino natural history society

Support:Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Arts Creatores,2015

Photo: Takehiro GOTO