I made English explanation panels to
take to Maker Faire Seoul and KLESF in
Malaysia.
9月27日
KLESF
My robots will be participating in an
event called KLESF that will be held
in Kuala Lumpur next month.
An article about the event was
published in a local newspaper in
Malaysia.
Photos from when the robot band was
exhibited in 2019 are introduced.
Tatami band concert in Hida Furukawa.
It started raining heavily when the
performance started.
After the performance, the rain
stopped.
Enjoy robot dancing with fast
playback.
海老を振り回すだけの簡単なお仕事です。
9月24日
Everyone's school play 2023 みんなの学校ごっこ2023
Everyone's school play 2023
Tatami band, media art "Music Plant,
Cafe of rabbit manager
The mystery of “Flohwalzer”
In Toyama, I exhibited a media art
work called music plant in which when
played on an electronic piano, the
pitch is reversed and played back.
Some people played "Flohwalzer'' and
strangely enough, I felt like part of
the original tune was playing during
the playback.
It's hard to explain, but I think it's
because it's composed using an
algorithmic method similar to fractal
music, using pentatonics.
Hida was previously known as a ninja
town.
In recent years, it has become known
as the setting for the animated movie
"Your Name ( Kimi no Na wa) ."
I visited the locations featured in
the movie.
9月19日
飛騨で鯉に餌をやるロボット
Feeding hungry carps.
お腹をすかせた鯉に餌をやるなど。
9月19日
飛騨の太鼓
Taiko masters appear in Hida Furukawa!
飛騨古川に太鼓の達人が登場！
100円を納めて重要無形文化財の太鼓を叩かせてもらいました。
Music Plant is a media art work using
a PC and electronic musical
instruments. This is a mysterious
device that when you play any song on
the electronic piano, a different song
is generated and played back based on
that song.
When you start playing, a virtual
plant displayed on the monitor will
start to grow. The shape of the plant
is not fixed, but reflects what you
played at the time. When you hit one
key on an electronic piano, a branche
is added to the plant. A certain rule
is assigned between the notes on the
scale and the direction in which the
branches grow. Furthermore, if you hit
two keys at the same time, two
branches will grow at the same time.
After a while after the performance
stops, the plants will be redrawn and
the playback of song will begin. There
are two redrawing patterns: one that
draws from the outer branches and one
that draws from the inner branches.
When a branch is drawn, the sound
assigned to the branch is played, but
this sound is not the same as the
sound when the branch was generated.
It is converted according to certain
rules.
In a pattern where branches are drawn
from the outside, the same sound as
when the branch was generated is
played, so the music played during the
drawing process is a reverse playback
of the original music. In the pattern
where branches are drawn from the base
of the plant, the time flow is the
same, but the sound produced when
redrawing is the original pitch
reversed. For example, if the pitch of
a major chord is flipped, it becomes a
minor chord. This is because a chord
made by stacking a minor third and a
major third is converted into a chord
made by stacking a major third and a
minor third. As for the entire song,
songs in a major key are converted
into songs in a minor key, and songs
in a minor key are converted into
songs in a major key, so bright music
is played back as gloomy music, and
gloomy music becomes bright music.
In either pattern, the more musical
the original performance, the more
musical the music returned when
redrawing. If you play randomly, the
music returned when redrawing will
also sound random.
It's a work called Music Plant (the
algorithm is called Music Mirror) that
will be exhibited at NT Toyama and
MikanoharArt.
When you play the keyboard, tunes in a
major key are converted to a minor
key, and tunes in a minor key are
converted to a major key and played
back.
In addition, the branches of the plant
drawn on the screen grow according to
the performance, and their shapes
reflect the appearance rate of the
notes on the scale in the tune.
By the way, the song I'm playing is an
original song I composed about 30
years ago.
