Audio CD, produced as a contribution to the exhibition Visible Poetry organized by the Korean Society of Typography, at KDF Gallery D+, Seoul, 1–10 February 2010. Below is the description of the piece.
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If visual poetry – or concrete poetry – has helped illuminating the materiality of language, Muji Rainbow focuses on the materiality of sound, or the materiality of a sound recording device, to be exact. Muji Rainbow is an audio CD designed specifically for Muji Wall Mounted CD Player. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa in 1999, the CD player has established itself as a modern design classic. But what interests us is not its status as a design icon, but the simple fact that it reveals the surface of a CD that it plays. If you put Muji Rainbow on the machine and play it, a small rainbow will emerge with a seven-minute silence – or the barely audible sound of the player’s own working.
