Nippon Rock » Daito Manabe http://www.nipponrock.net Japanese Music reviews & news Wed, 26 May 2010 01:26:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Daito Manabe – Electric Stimulus to Face http://www.nipponrock.net/2009/11/04/daito-manabe-electric-stimulus-to-face/ http://www.nipponrock.net/2009/11/04/daito-manabe-electric-stimulus-to-face/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:39:17 +0000 Jack http://www.nipponrock.net/?p=382 Daito Manabe is a total nerd in the best possible way.  He’s an artist before he’s a musician, but makes very sound/music-focused art, such as this video where he sends electrical impulses to muscles on his subjects faces in time with music – making their faces twitch in a bizarre dance.  Looks painful, but Daito says, “not as much as you think”.  (via SynthGear)

A whole bunch of other cool stuff on Daito’s YouTube channel.  Here are a couple of my favourites:

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