Akio Suzuki
Akio Suzuki, born in 1941 in Pyongyang and raised in Japan, is known as a pioneer of sound art, though the breadth of his work far exceeds that label; he prefers to be seen as a quester after sound and space. In 1963 he threw a bucket of junk down a staircase as a first "self-study of the relationship between man and objects", and later built the echo instrument Analapos and played stones, walls and the wind. From the late 1970s he developed a practice he calls Conceptual Soundwork, using simple, austere rules and objects close at hand in a mode of intellectual play.
Akio Suzuki, born in 1941 in Pyongyang and raised in Japan, is known as a pioneer of sound art, though the breadth of his work far exceeds that label; he prefers to be seen as a quester after sound and space. In 1963 he threw a bucket of junk down a staircase as a first "self-study of the relationship between man and objects", and later built the echo instrument Analapos and played stones, walls and the wind. From the late 1970s he developed a practice he calls Conceptual Soundwork, using simple, austere rules and objects close at hand in a mode of intellectual play.
