[Yarmark]

Feel especially dexterous in the facial area? Perhaps you’ve longed for musical expression that lets you apply that ear wiggling talent you have, because it surpasses your ability to do things with fingers, frets, and keys. Your day has come.

Daito Manabe is a Japanese-based composer, media artist, and DJ who does strange and wonderful things with inputs. This time, he’s hooked up electrical inputs to his face, so small movements can trigger sounds in multimedia software Max/MSP, his usual tool of choice.

This is just one tech demo, but as an artist he does work in more fully-formed, full-length works — and happens to be coming to New York in November as part of a multimedia show at the [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]. Daito, if you’re out there reading I hope to catch up with you then, and perhaps buy you a Kirin, my honorary beer since it’s typically how my name is misspelled. (Peter Kirin is my typo Japanese alterego; the more popular Peter Kim my typo Korean doppelganger.)

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