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    Yuri Suzuki mimics 'The Sound of the Waves' with surf data

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    Nick Summers
    Nick Summers
    03.14.2018

    Yuri Suzuki was hunched over a MacBook Air with a "Fuck Brexit" sticker on the lid. He opened Magicseaweed, an ocean-monitoring website for surfers, and searched for a few spots along Spain's northern coast. "It's quite amazing to see the super-precise data we can get," he muttered, turning the screen toward me. I nodded as the sound artist, designer and musician scrolled past endless tables listing hourly wave height and speed, wind and temperature conditions. These numbers, he explained, weren't holiday research but the secret behind his latest and most ambitious art installation, The Sound of the Waves.