Credits
Designer / Programmer : Keita Abe / Shunsaku Ishinabe
Planner : Moe Goto
Executive Producer : Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer : Sinichi Saeki / Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer : Ken Ishii
Composer & Piano : Ayatake Ezaki (WONK, millennium parade)
Violin : Shuntaro Tsuneta
Cello : Sonoko Muraoka
Manager : Daiki Hayashi (GRT Co., Ltd.)
Sound Designer: Katsuhiro Chiba
Piano Technician: Kenichiro Yairo (Yamaha Music Japan CO., Ltd.)
Piano Support: Shun Arai (Yamaha Music Japan CO., Ltd.)
Creative Director : Naoki Tanaka (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Art Director : Yusuke Koyanagi (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Creative Technologist : Shintaro Murakami / Ryonosuke Ono / Keita Kuki / Kazuya Kishimoto / Maya Atsuki / Atsushi Fukuda (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Product Designer : Kou Mikuni (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Producer : Kohei Ai / Miyuki Fujishima (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Equipment & Technical Cooperation : Prism Co.,Ltd.
Equipment & Technical Cooperation : Yamaha Music Japan Co.,Ltd.
Venue Cooperation : Warehouse TERRADA
sonus-oleum
"sonus-oleum" is a live installation work that allows you to experience pieces in different forms on each of three floors (B1, first floor, and roof) of a facility modeled after a boat (T-LOTUS M). We imagined "music becoming an energy that moves the boat," and expressed the shapes of music born on the boat in the following four forms.
Live Performance 1: The Birth of Music
This work begins from a live performance on B1. The music is an original composition by Ayatake Ezaki that was written for this installation. It is performed by Ayatake Ezaki (piano), Shuntaro Tsuneta (violin), Sonoko Muraoka (cello), and a player piano. The venue is configured with eight 3m x 4m screens set up on both sides of the performers so that visitors feel encompassed by the music and video. Real-time motion graphics which move in time with the instruments are projected onto the screen. The integral components of the real-time motion graphics are, as output from the piano, the strength and duration with which the keyboard (88 keys) and pedal are pressed, and the hand movements of the violinist and cellist as taken using a ring device. The real-time motion graphics which occur together with the performers' movements describe musical energy being born and drifting above.
Interactive Exhibit: Variations Based Upon Video
The musical energy born from the live performance on B1 becomes bubbles and appear in the first floor interactive work. The first floor venue contains seven 2.4m x 2.4m transparent screens placed along the windows, onto which an interactive video is projected. When visitors touch the bubbles that appear on each screen, the bubbles burst and note by note the original composition takes on a different timbre. The variations born from fortuity continue to generate infinitely.
Projection Mapping: Music Starts A Breeze
The variations generated on the first floor ascend to the roof, starting a breeze in order to move the boat. The wind that arises from the power of music hitting the sails is shown by four large 30,000 lumen projectors above the visitors' heads.
Live Performance 2: Jam Session with Returned Sound
For the second live performance carried out on B1, the player piano performed the variations that were generated by visitors touching bubbles on the first floor, and Ezaki (piano), Tsuneda (violin), and Muraoka (cello) improvised a performance to match it. The variations generated by the visitors and the improvised live performance, along with the real-time motion graphics allowed us to feel a new form of music.
In this live installation, we were able to unlearn through these four processes and bring forth a scenery of reincarnating into new sound and cycling on. The title of the work, "sonus-oleum" is a word coined from "sonus" (sound) and "petroleum."
Credits
Designer / Programmer : Keita Abe / Shunsaku Ishinabe
Planner : Moe Goto
Executive Producer : Hiroshi Takahashi
Producer : Sinichi Saeki / Yasuaki Matsui
Assistant Producer : Ken Ishii
Composer & Piano : Ayatake Ezaki (WONK, millennium parade)
Violin : Shuntaro Tsuneta
Cello : Sonoko Muraoka
Manager : Daiki Hayashi (GRT Co., Ltd.)
Sound Designer: Katsuhiro Chiba
Piano Technician: Kenichiro Yairo (Yamaha Music Japan CO., Ltd.)
Piano Support: Shun Arai (Yamaha Music Japan CO., Ltd.)
Creative Director : Naoki Tanaka (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Art Director : Yusuke Koyanagi (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Creative Technologist : Shintaro Murakami / Ryonosuke Ono / Keita Kuki / Kazuya Kishimoto / Maya Atsuki / Atsushi Fukuda (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Product Designer : Kou Mikuni (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Producer : Kohei Ai / Miyuki Fujishima (Dentsu Lab Tokyo)
Equipment & Technical Cooperation : Prism Co.,Ltd.
Equipment & Technical Cooperation : Yamaha Music Japan Co.,Ltd.
Venue Cooperation : Warehouse TERRADA
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Biography
WOW is a visual Design Studio founded in 1997 based in Tokyo, Sendai, London and San Francisco.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2019
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Tokyo Light Odyssey｜JAPAN HOUSE London, UK
POPPO (YADORU, ROKURO, POPPO’s Forest)｜JAPAN HOUSE London, UK
BAKERU: Transforming Spirits｜JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles, USA
- 2018
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WOW Visual Design Studio ー WOW animates the world｜Spiral, Japan
- 2017
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POPPO Exhibition｜Manabia Terrace, Japan
Beyond Cassini｜hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK, USA
Hare to Ke Exhibition｜Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
- 2015
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UNITY of MOTION｜Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul, Korea
- 2013
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Factory and Fantasy｜21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
- 2012
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Factory and Fantasy｜Sapporo Underground Space Station Road, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2019
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motion texture 02｜Art+Tech Summit at Christie’s: The A.I. Revolution, New York, USA
Emerge｜Reborn-Art-Festival, Japan
motion texture 02｜Roppongi Art Night, Japan
wind form_02, UNITY of MOTION｜BAY ART, China
YADORU｜Media Ambition Tokyo, Japan
- 2017
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floating anima_01｜Reborn-Art Festival, Japan
- 2016
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Tokyo Light Odyssey｜New Style New Artist, Intercommunication Center, Japan
- 2010
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Snow Drops｜Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Factory and Fantasy｜Design Act 2010, Russia
Factory and Fantasy｜Kawasaki Dreaming Highway, Japan
Tengible｜MIGZ, Russia
Tengible｜VINCON Gallery, Spain
Light Rain｜Decode: Digital Design Sensations, CAFA Art Museum , Beijing, China
- 2009
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Factory and Fantasy｜Miyagi Art Museum, Japan
Lights and Shadows｜Tent Digital, UK
Light Rain｜Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria and Alvert Museum, UK
- 2008
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Lights and Shadows｜Wonder Exhibition Milano Salone, Italy
- 2007
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Tengible｜DesignTide, Miyagi Art Museum, Japan
Tengible｜Tent London, UK
- 2006
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motion texture｜Miraikan, Japan
motion texture｜Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
PROJECTS
- 2019
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aikuchi｜Marc Newson at Gagosian West 21st Street, NY, USA
- 2016
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KOHTEI｜Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens, Japan
- 2014
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Ophelia has a Dream｜Media Ambition Tokyo, Japan