Makoto Oshiro (b. 1978, Okinawa) is a Berlin Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, every day materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference.
2022. [online] Available at: <https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/makoto-oshiro/> .
This is the work of Makoto Oshiro that I found when I was looking for information about him. The name is ‘Mono-beat Cinema’ and it was shown in 2010.
A sine wave is produced by a loudspeaker placed in front of a cathode-ray tube TV display. The frequency produced by the loudspeaker is heard as sound, but the loudspeaker’s vibration can also be sensed as a visual phenomena. Simultaneously, when the screen image of the TV monitor is examined from the standpoint of phenomena, it may be interpreted as a fast flashing light. The flicker of the TV display interferes with the vibration of the loudspeaker in this piece, affecting the visual appearance of the loudspeaker.
The combination of this kind of work with light reminded me of an exhibition I saw in London in 2019, which also had something to do with light（factory 180）. I was quite interested in this at the time and looked for artists in the country to research.
Factory 180