I went to see an event at Geesen, an
art gallery in Kyoto, to unveil
two types of music boxes. One is by
midi and one is by manual.
There were live performances by
Matsutake Hideki, the synthesizer
manipulator of YMO, performer
Yamaguchi Mioko, and poet Chris
Mosdell.
YMO was a Japanese techno pop band
active in the 80s, consisting of
Sakamoto Ryuichi, Hosono Haruomi, and
Takahashi Yukihiro.
They were a big influence on my
interest in computer music.
The midi music box uses solenoids to
pluck the valves of the music box.
I didn't know what the inside of the
manual music box looked like, but it
doesn't use electricity, and when the
performer plays the keys, it makes the
sound of the music box being plucked.
When the performer strikes a string,
he/she doesn't hit the valve, but
scratch the valve with nail, and the
nail rotates once before the next
string is struck.
一青窈 「陪哭」
This is a Japanese pop song by Hitoto
Yo, a singer from Taiwan.
The robots are playing accompaniment,
and later I will add the main melody
with my voice.
8月7日
テルミン共演
Air on the G String
Theremin and robot collaboration
8月4日
技アートフェス
Tatami is a traditional Japanese floor
covering.
The surface is made from a plant
called rush woven into a lattice
pattern.
The surface of a tatami mat appears to
be a different color depending on the
angle at which the light hits it.
The colors change depending on the
viewing angle, so the pattern looks
different depending on where you
stand. Also, if you rotate the tatami
mat, the pattern appears to change.
The dragon shown in the first half of
the video appears either white or dark
brown depending on the angle from
which you view it.
In the second half of the video,
pixels are expressed by rotating
disk-shaped tatami mats.
先週見た名古屋の技アートフェスの様子。前半は見る角度により、畳の表面の色が違って見えることを利用したアート作品。立つ位置によって白い竜になったり、ダークブラウンの竜になったりします。動画の後半は、円盤状の畳を回転させることによりピクセルを表現するTataPixelという作品です。
8月4
日
オープンキャンパス
Today, I visited the open campus of
Ritsumeikan University in Ibaraki,
Osaka.
The university has a department of
Image Arts and Sciences.
The campus includes a film studio with
a house set, as well as a large lab
where AR, VR and media art works can
be produced.
The sound effects production room has
different types of flooring, kitchen
equipment, a pool, and more.
The Department of image arts at Kyoto
Seika University, where I used to work
as a part-time lecturer, also had
similar facilities. There is a similar
facility at IAMAS in Gifu.
Ritsumeikan University's Ibaraki
Campus is a newly constructed campus
with new facilities and larger scale
facilities than those of other
universities.
It seems like they have all the tools
you need for video production.
However, I feel like I could create
things in my own room that are created
in that space and with that tools in
the university.
