Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 12/04/2008 - YouTube
Daito Manabe:Direction,programming and compose supported by Masaki Teruoka and Katsuhiko Harada: device Taeji Sawai: sound design
Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 12/04/2008
Daito Manabe is a Japanese artist and programer who has figured out a way to make his face involuntarily dance to music: by using electricity. Each beat hits a different part of his face with a quick shock. The result is disturbing, yet highly entertaining. Link
Sort by MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) - 10/25/2008
(Please do not try this at home … work, at a friends house, visiting relatives, on vacation, or anywhere else for that matter.) Daito demonstrates a unique strategy for synchronize visuals with music - by contracting facial muscles with electrical stimulation. Wow, his look of anticipation at the videos open seems a fair warning in and of itself! [via Synthtopia ] More: Den-kuri Master - electrical...
Sort by Slog (Free subscription) - 12/02/2008
Japanese artist-programmer Daito Manabe wrote himself a nice little electronic beep-boop-beep song, and then electrocuted his face to the beat. Weird! Here's the video: via vsl
Sort by Idolator (Free subscription) - 11/03/2008
In case you were wondering how, exactly, your face could become a musical instrument without you ever having to sing a note, sound artist Daito Manabe is here to help. The above clip of him winking, twitching, and wiggling his nose to the beat of the music playing beneath him—and possibly creating those beats through those facial movements—is transfixing enough that even the boilerplate "it sounds...
Sort by Geekologie (Free subscription) - 10/27/2008
Daito Manabe is probably a masochist. And definitely a weirdo. What does he do? He tapes electric stimulators, looking like the same type used for electroshock therapy, to his face, and syncs them with his music so his involuntary facial contortions match up with the tune. Now that's what I call dancing! Or, alternatively, that's what I call fucking stupid! Innovations in Visualizer Technology: Electroshock...
Sort by Fleck.com Blog (Free subscription) - 03/03/2009
Photo by Anne Helmond Last nights edition of Upload Cinema was all about the use of technology to shape ourselves to our ideal image. The audience looked at fitness, body building, plastic surgery, robotics and bionics. The videos show the sane, the insane, the good, the bad and the ugly. And the beautiful! 134 movies were entered [...]
Sort by Japan Probe (Free subscription) - 10/26/2008
Japanese artist/programmer/designer Daito Manabe attached some electrodes to his face and succeeded in making his facial muscles twitch along with a song: [via Makezine]
Sort by today and tomorrow (Free subscription) - 10/24/2008
This is just too crazy. Daito Manabe stimulates his facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music. The result is amazing, he now has to figure out how the hide the cables, then it would be an excellent music video.
Sort by TOKYOMANGO (Free subscription) - 12/02/2008
Daito Manabe is a thirty-something year old artist/programmer/composer who is best known for his "electric simulus to face" test—he hooked his face muscles up to electrodes that were synced up to some electronic music he created himself. Every new beat...
Sort by The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) - 10/26/2008
I've seen twitchy, but nothing this twitchy: Electric stimulus to face . Comments | Posted in General
Sort by lost at e minor (Free subscription) - 04/20/2009
I’m mesmerized by the weird yet strangely wonderful work of Daito Manabe, a Japanese video artist who puts electrodes on his face to make glitchy electronic music.
Sort by haha.nu (Free subscription) - 11/21/2008
We have enjoyed many music visualizations here @ haha.nu, but this one is probably the… weirdest. What do you think, could this be faked (with well training of the face muscles)? Daito Manabe: Direction, programming and compose. Supported by Masaki Teruoka and Katsuhiko Harada: device. Taeji Sawai: sound design. @ haha.nu.
Sort by Listening Post (Free subscription) - 10/27/2008
Tokyo programmer, artist and turntablist Daito Manabe attaches electric controls to the face to trigger music samples using facial expressions, as shown by the video to the right. Some commenters on YouTube claim it's fake, but I'm buying it partly...
Sort by Click opera (Free subscription) - 01/24/2009
You know, we talk about "experimental music", but it's become just another genre term -- few people are making music based on actual experiments in the scientific sense. Meet someone who is: artist, designer and programmer Daito Manabe . When I first saw this video on olamm's blog , I thought Daito was controlling the music with his face. In fact, it's the other way around. He's controlling his face...
