We just spent a few hours trying to figure out Japanese techno-performance-art-toy company [Maywa Denki]. As self-described “parallel-world electricians”, the small art collective turns out ...

Maywa Denki bends this common concept of the product to create an identity around their works of art. Because why not solve an imaginary problem that doesn’t really need a solution?

In 1979, it was forced to close down. But the Tosa brothers rebooted Maywa Denki in 1993, converting it into a creative art space that produces musical instruments from the sort of stainless steel ...