The District of Plywood City

Forming a new piece for his “The Rotators” series, UJINO combines wood crates to create a sound sculpture named The District of Plywood City as an analogy for wooden architecture.
Born in 2004, The Rotators project features advanced forms of sound sculptures. It is an automatic rhythm playing system that consists of motor-driven electric appliances orchestrated by the Rotatorhead, or a unit of modified record turntables and vinyl discs. From hairdryers, blenders, to power drills, a variety of electronic appliances are integrated as a sound unit using rock’n roll technologies to simulate an electric machine band.
Through his work, he tries to sum up the material civilization of the 20th century and critically project an interpretation of the world. Likening today’s society of mass consumption as Naturalism, UJINO portrays this theme through assembling a mass of products that were born and completed in the middle of consumerism during the 21st century.