Credits
Organizer : Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Director : Yoichi Ochiai
Conductor : Hikaru Ebihara
Light : Kazuhiro Naruse
Creative Director : Kosuke Oho
Director : Tatsuki Kondo
Technical Director : Keita Abe
Programmer : Sunataro Hosoi, Seiya Takasawa, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Visual Designer : Shota Oga, Rin Matsunaga
PR : Michiru Sasaki
Producer : Go Hagiwara
Camera Crew : Imura Office
Equipment Cooperation : Prism
Director : Yoichi Ochiai
Conductor : Hikaru Ebihara
Light : Kazuhiro Naruse
Creative Director : Kosuke Oho
Director : Tatsuki Kondo
Technical Director : Keita Abe
Programmer : Sunataro Hosoi, Seiya Takasawa, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Visual Designer : Shota Oga, Rin Matsunaga
PR : Michiru Sasaki
Producer : Go Hagiwara
Camera Crew : Imura Office
Equipment Cooperation : Prism
Recursive Orchestra
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra｜2023
The Yoichi Ochiai × Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Project, in which WOW participated each year as a “Video Performer,” was in its sixth year. This project aimed to harness technology to update the experience of listening to an orchestra and use art and culture to build a highly diverse society, as well as to disseminate Japanese culture. Based on the concept of music being not simply heard with the ears but also “felt with the senses in a physical experience,” this project pursued the sheer joy of live music and worked on the fusion of the digital and the real, even throughout the global pandemic. As a “Video Performer,” WOW engaged in video performances that incorporated the technology of the moment. This year’s performance took up the challenge of realizing new forms of expression utilizing AI, a technology that continues to evolve rapidly.
In past performances, WOW joined the orchestra, using video equipment as instruments. This year’s performance transmitted images using AI to the two video screens (3.5m × 3.5m) installed on stage in a joint performance with the orchestra. By contrasting the images on the two screens, we attempted to realize various performances, producing different visuals created from different command statements and multiple SEED values, and real-time switching enabled by AI. We trained AI about performance statements and musicality, and the overall direction for the WOW performance was input in advance. This performance was reflective of the world that AI itself truly envisions, and not the “world we think AI might imagine” when we listen to music.
From this year, in collaboration with Dai Fujikura, a renowned Japanese composer resident in the United Kingdom, we introduced traditional sounds and auditory experiences from various regions of Japan, including the orchestra’s exploration of Japan in “Open Leaves,” a new original work. In this first year of the collaboration, the spotlight was on the ancient music of the Ryukyus, combining orchestral sounds and technology with Ryukyuan court culture that has been so carefully preserved and passed down in Okinawa. The audience was invited to visit the venue directly to enjoy this performance, which conveyed the deeply-rooted musical culture of Japan in a new form of expression, in a “recursive” experience for the audience.
In past performances, WOW joined the orchestra, using video equipment as instruments. This year’s performance transmitted images using AI to the two video screens (3.5m × 3.5m) installed on stage in a joint performance with the orchestra. By contrasting the images on the two screens, we attempted to realize various performances, producing different visuals created from different command statements and multiple SEED values, and real-time switching enabled by AI. We trained AI about performance statements and musicality, and the overall direction for the WOW performance was input in advance. This performance was reflective of the world that AI itself truly envisions, and not the “world we think AI might imagine” when we listen to music.
From this year, in collaboration with Dai Fujikura, a renowned Japanese composer resident in the United Kingdom, we introduced traditional sounds and auditory experiences from various regions of Japan, including the orchestra’s exploration of Japan in “Open Leaves,” a new original work. In this first year of the collaboration, the spotlight was on the ancient music of the Ryukyus, combining orchestral sounds and technology with Ryukyuan court culture that has been so carefully preserved and passed down in Okinawa. The audience was invited to visit the venue directly to enjoy this performance, which conveyed the deeply-rooted musical culture of Japan in a new form of expression, in a “recursive” experience for the audience.
Credits
Organizer : Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Director : Yoichi Ochiai
Conductor : Hikaru Ebihara
Light : Kazuhiro Naruse
Creative Director : Kosuke Oho
Director : Tatsuki Kondo
Technical Director : Keita Abe
Programmer : Sunataro Hosoi, Seiya Takasawa, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Visual Designer : Shota Oga, Rin Matsunaga
PR : Michiru Sasaki
Producer : Go Hagiwara
Camera Crew : Imura Office
Equipment Cooperation : Prism
Director : Yoichi Ochiai
Conductor : Hikaru Ebihara
Light : Kazuhiro Naruse
Creative Director : Kosuke Oho
Director : Tatsuki Kondo
Technical Director : Keita Abe
Programmer : Sunataro Hosoi, Seiya Takasawa, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Visual Designer : Shota Oga, Rin Matsunaga
PR : Michiru Sasaki
Producer : Go Hagiwara
Camera Crew : Imura Office
Equipment Cooperation : Prism
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