Hiroshi Takahashi

Hiroshi Takahashi

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WOW25 "sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium" from Unlearning the Visuals - 映像作家: wow-inc
Audio visual performanceGenerative ArtInstallationInteractiveOriginalProjection mappingR&DReal-time Graphics

WOW25 "sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium" from Unlearning the Visuals

2022
00:03:23
About the Work “sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium” is a live installation in which visitors can experience works in different forms on each of the three floors of the ship-shaped facility (T-LOTUS M): B1F, 1F, and the rooftop. With the premise that “music becomes the energy that moves the ship,” the work explores the form of music born inside the ship through the following four formats. Live Performance 1 — The Birth of Music — This work begins with a live performance on B1F. The music is an original piece composed by Fumitake Ezaki specifically for this live installation. The performance is by Fumitake Ezaki (piano), Shuntaro Tsuneta (violin), Sonoko Muraoka (cello), and an automatic piano. The venue was designed with eight 3 m × 4 m screens installed on both sides of the performers, enveloping visitors in music and imagery. Real-time motion graphics synchronized with the instruments were projected onto the screens. The elements composing the real-time motion graphics are the piano’s output of keyboard input (88 keys), the strength and duration of pedal presses, and the hand movements of the violin and cello players captured using ring devices. The real-time motion graphics linked to the performers’ movements depict the energy of music being generated and floating upward to the upper levels. Interactive Installation — Variation through Images — The energy of the music born in the B1F live performance appears as bubbles within the interactive work on 1F. Seven 2.4 m × 2.4 m translucent screens were installed throughout the 1F space in alignment with the windows, and interactive visuals were projected onto them. When visitors touch the bubbles displayed on each screen, the bubbles split, and each note of the original piece transforms into a different timbre. Variations born from chance continue to be generated endlessly. Projection Mapping — Music Creates Wind — The variations generated on 1F rise further to the rooftop, where they create the wind that moves the ship. Using four large 30,000-lumen projectors, the wind stirred up by the power of music and striking the sails was projected above the visitors’ heads. Live Performance 2 — A Session with Returned Sound — In the second live performance held on B1F, the automatic piano played in real time the variations generated by visitors touching the bubbles on 1F, while Ezaki (piano), Tsuneta (violin), and Muraoka (cello) improvised along with it. The interplay of visitor-generated variations, improvised live performance, and real-time motion graphics evoked a new form of music. Through these four processes, this live installation created a landscape in which sound was “unlearned” and transformed into new sounds, continuing in circulation. The title “sonus-oleum ; Sonosorium” is a coined word combining sonus, meaning sound, and petroleum, meaning oil.
Contour - 映像作家: ryokitabatake
3DCGArt workShort film

Contour

2021
00:02:46
About the work A man trudges through the same place again and again in a dim wasteland, as if dragging his weary body behind him. His doubles, replicated like afterimages, drift through the air, forming a huge mass that hovers over his head. On the ground, tentacles cling to him as if to hinder his steps. Before long, the man collapses to the ground and sinks into a mental realm. A visual work that depicts modern people, constantly exposed to information and living alongside complex human relationships, in an unfamiliar brilliance. The contours and boundaries of the self, shaped by self-awareness, waver, mutate, and dissolve. It portrays human beings living through this cycle. Directed and produced by the unit of Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki, winners of Best of Stash and the Telly Award Gold. Filmed at Dimension Studio in London using the latest volumetric imaging technology, with music by Max Cooper. Max Cooper How many artists over the past decade have, like Max Cooper, reexamined and expanded the relationship between electronic music, visual art, technology, and science? Through collaborations with artists and institutions across disciplines, including the Barbican Centre, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Dolby Atmos, Cooper works with a mixed-media approach to create immersive installations, psychoacoustics, visual art, and electronic music. Max Cooper▶ maxcooper.net/ Dimension Studio Dimension Studio is a London studio that provides innovative volumetric and real-time production for creating next-generation virtual production, digital humans, and XR content. With production studios based in the UK and the US, as well as mobile environments operating around the world, it is committed to bringing the virtual entertainment of the future to life. Dimension Studio▶ dimensionstudio.co/
Lumière / Motion Ceiling - 映像作家: wow-inc
3DCGArt workInstallationMotion graphicsSignage

Lumière / Motion Ceiling

2019
00:01:30
作品について 2019年7月19日、池袋に12スクリーンの大型シネマコンプレックス「グランドシネマサンシャイン」がオープン。グランドシネマサンシャインは、常設の映画館として国内最大となる 「IMAX®レーザー/GTテクノロジー」や、日本初上陸となる体感型シアター「4DX with ScreenX」といった最新鋭のシアター設備に加え、映画の世界に浸ることができる遊び心あるインテリアの起用など、従来のシネマコンプレックスの基準を超える設備とサービスにより、未来基準のエンタテインメントを提供している。 WOWは、本施設の4階エントランスロビーに設置されるシャンデリア「Lumière」と、12階の天井を覆う巨大LEDディスプレイ「Motion Ceiling」の演出を担当。また、「Motion Ceiling」の世界観を切り出し、施設内の壁面や柱に設置された47台の55インチサイネージ用縦型ディスプレイに映像が連動する演出も担当した。 Lumière 「現代的な解釈と技術を加えた新しいアート」として、グランドシネマサンシャインのアイコンとなるシャンデリアを制作。ステンレスの鏡面仕上げで作られた直径2.7mの球体の表面を47つにボロノイ分割し、4方向から映像をプロジェクションすることにより、中央部に仕込まれたスクリーンに映し出された映像が複雑に反射を繰り返す。シャンデリアのデザイン・意匠設計は、トラフ建築設計事務所が担当。巨大な光の万華鏡を思わせるシャンデリアがグランドシネマサンシャインのエントランス空間を華やかに演出する。 Motion Ceiling 横幅約31メートル、高さ約10メートルの巨大な天井を覆うのは、アートモーショングラフィックス作品「Motion Ceiling」。美しい天井画をイメージした本作は、軽快なタイルアクションが特徴の「GEOMETRY」、大空に巨大な布が美しくなびく様子を描いた「REFLECTION」、無数のパーティクルに包まれた都市を煌びやかに表現する「LIGHT」の3つのテーマを軸に制作した。天井全体を覆うLEDディスプレイは、その巨大さから、周辺の通りからも眺める事ができる。カフェスペースやラウンジで寛ぐ人々、周辺の通りから見上げて鑑賞する人々、双方の視点を考慮して演出した。