Image: NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] in Tokyo has announced 'Sound in the Light' by the AR Audio Guide team (glow), a 2026 work included in ICC Kids Program 2026. The piece is presented as an exhibition work within 'Mikan no yakusoku—tsukutte, toraeru media creations' ('The Promise of the Orange—Making and Capturing Media Creations'), which runs from July 25 to August 30, 2026.
The museum describes 'Sound in the Light' as an audio mixed-reality experience that changes the relationship between viewer, artwork and exhibition space. According to the project description, visitors enter a light zone, listen to audio through headphones or earphones, and move through the space while guided by moving light and sound. They are invited to look around, stop, and sometimes shift perspective as they explore the installation.
Rather than serving only as an explanatory audio guide, the work uses sound to prompt viewers to reconsider how they perceive the artwork and the room around it. The page says the audio offers questions and viewpoints that help participants rethink the relationship between themselves, the work and the exhibition environment, and explore how their understanding may change through the encounter with 'sound in the light.'
The credited team behind the project is listed as Akaba Hiroshi, Fushida Masahiro, Sasaki Yo, Kyono Akiko and Hikaruno Runa, with production support by Hirase Miki. Cooperation is credited to the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS], FLAME Co., Ltd., and glow. The work page also shows photographs by Tomita Ryohei.
ICC’s online archive entry places the project within the center’s broader educational and exhibition programming for children. The museum identifies the artist as AR Audio Guide team (glow) and lists the exhibition information under the kids’ program rather than as a standalone show. The archive page presents 'Sound in the Light' as one of the works in the 2026 program, alongside ICC’s standard visitor information and archive navigation.
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] is located in the Tokyo Opera City Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku. The archive page for 'Sound in the Light' is dated 2026 and describes the project in both Japanese and English as an audio MR experience centered on movement, light and changing viewpoints.
