Takuro Oshima: My DTM

My DTM, 2017/2025
Toy trains, cassette player, magnetic tapes

Free entrance
Limited places: please pre-register HERE. 

Takuro Oshima’s My DTM is an interactive sound installation that merges the ephemeral qualities of music-making with the joy of childhood exploration.

Motorized toy trains, outfitted with magnetic tape, traverse a track embedded with cassette playback heads, creating a rich tapestry of layered audio. Each train car plays a unique sound; as the cars connect or diverge, the composition evolves in unexpected ways. Balancing creative control with moments of chance, participants become intimately attuned to the trains’ rhythms, simultaneously orchestrating and surrendering to them. Collisions, derailments, and fleeting stutters highlight the imperfect dance between human agency and mechanical unpredictability.

Engaging with My DTM recalls childlike impulses to animate the inanimate and converse with the quiet corners of our surroundings. Moments of stutter parallel the artist’s own speech patterns, transforming mishaps into celebratory secrets shared across human and non-human entities. My DTM invites the co-creation of an equilibrium, where controller and controlled blur, sparking reflection on transitions of agency.

Within Between / Worlds, it echoes liminal ecologies and fosters playful reorientation.

Thanks to SEAS and House of Foundation.