Akitsugu Maebayashi is a sound and media artist. He has focused on auditory sense as an interface between the body and the environment, and has been creating installations as opportunities for personal experience. His work Audible Distance was awarded the runner-up prize in the ICC Biennale '97, and the honorable mention in the Ars Electronica '98 in Linz. He created Sonic Interface in 1999, which examines the influence of changes in the sense of hearing upon perception. This work was exhibited in Akihabara TV2 (Tokyo, 2000), DEAF_00 (Rotterdam, 2000), and Villette Numerique (Paris, 2002). The piece, [I/O] distant place was developed with a 3D acoustic technology and was shown in ICC (Tokyo, 2001).

[Radio room]
n this piece, a radio works as a bridge which symbolically draws another space and time to 'now and here'. When we simulate 'how we hear', we might be experiencing a duality, in which we are conscious of a sense of space and time while being aware of the absence of a corresponding event in a real space.[Akitsugu Maebayashi]