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.

Nissan Pavilion, an experiential entertainment facility where visitors can experience Nissan’s proud technologies and vision for the future, opened for a limited time in Yokohama Minato Mirai. Its concept is “Expanding Human Possibilities.” Among the experiential content that gives form to a near-future made possible by Nissan’s technology, WOW was responsible for the direction and production of THE CITY area. Visitors can experience an installation inspired by a “city energized by the connection between cars, people, and society.” In THE CITY, two of Nissan’s envisioned futures were visualized within the space. ROOM1 In a smoke-filled space, 195 laser modules and the motors that move them were installed. Each laser is individually controlled to create a variety of animations, and when a visitor enters the area, the system detects their presence and takes evasive action, making it an interactive space. This abstractly expresses the key sensing technologies that Nissan is pursuing in order to realize a society with zero traffic accidents. ROOM2 Approximately 150 translucent pillars of varying heights, abstracting a “city,” and three pillars with mock car units placed on top, representing “cars,” were arranged throughout the space, with all pillars self-illuminated. The light animations representing “CHARGE,” “SHARE,” and “SUPPLY,” which begin when a hand is placed over the car mock-up, express Nissan’s vision of a city energized through the sharing of energy and information. In addition, when hands are placed over all three pillars with the mock-ups at the same time, a special effect triggers a vividly colorful light animation. The production was designed to evoke a city that becomes increasingly vibrant as cars, people, and society connect. Both spaces were designed as immersive environments that, while abstract, allow visitors to feel Nissan’s vision for the future. Nissan Pavilion Period: August 1, 2020 (Sat) – October 23, 2020 (Fri) Address: 6-2-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa NISSAN PAVILION Yokohama▶https://www.nissan.co.jp/BRAND/PAVILION/ For more detail▶https://www.w0w.co.jp/works/nissan_pavilion

With the theme of “reconstructing the orchestra through technology,” the “Yoichi Ochiai × Japan Philharmonic Project” launched in 2018. Again this year, WOW participated as the “performer of images” in the “____ Music Concert,” or rather, the “Twin Music Concert.” While the past two years had focused on creating a space where audiences could experience new appeal and value in the orchestra, this year the project sought to explore what an orchestra could be during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to a theater performance with a limited audience, the concert was also streamed online, aiming to offer a performance where new appeal could be experienced from two perspectives. In the theater performance, the audience experienced innovative music that opened up a new era of multidirectional sound in space, alongside image performers projected onto screens. In the online stream, the project pursued a sense of immediacy through concert-quality 2K video including AR imagery, industry-leading sound quality (AAC-LC 384 kbps), and three-dimensional visual direction made possible only through digital means. The visual experience of this performance centered on the AR imagery in the online stream, while the theater screens featured visuals that synchronized with, responded to, and contrasted with the AR imagery. Each offered a different yet equally valuable experience. In addition, by allowing theater audiences to later watch the online performance when it was re-streamed, the project sought to create a synergistic effect in which the performance could be relived from a different perspective. In visualizing the clues discovered through examining the music, the project did not rely on conventional notions of AR or stage visual direction, but instead aimed, as “image performers,” to create visual effects that accompanied the world of the music from two different perspectives, with the hope that each would be recognized as having its own new value. The title used up to just before the performance, “____ Music Concert,” was intended to express how the originally planned concert had been wiped away by COVID-19, and how a new concert was then pursued through trial and error. It also encouraged each viewer to think about the word that would fill the blank in the title. Near the end of the performance, the word corresponding to the “____” was revealed, and as the “Twin Music Concert,” a new concert was born from the search for what form a music concert could take during the pandemic.

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE is a bag brand built on an innovative concept and production method that freely creates endless forms by combining pieces. Its triangular structure transforms the shape, bringing beauty, delight, and surprise born of chance to the user, while also offering practicality that functions in every aspect of daily life. In “Shape with a world,” the infinite forms that define the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE concept are expressed through motifs inspired by various objects and phenomena in the natural world. Phenomena abstracted through the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE structure are endowed with new meaning and beauty, creating a unique world. Through this process, the work explores the appeal of the organic, distinctive forms and movements generated by its triangular structure.

2019年8月3日から9月29日まで、宮城県石巻市で開催されたReborn-Art-Festival（リボーンアート・フェスティバル）にて、萩浜エリアの山の麓にある洞窟の奥で蠢く光のインスタレーション「Emerge」を公開。戦時中に旧日本海軍が魚雷を格納するために作られたこの洞窟は、戦後数十年を経て、入り口周辺は植物で覆われ、岩の表面は苔生し、原始的な迫力を感じさせる雰囲気を醸し出している。「Emerge」は、時に激しく、軌跡をランダムに描き出しながら、暗がりの中でさまざまな表情を見せ、鑑賞者に「アニマ＝動きに宿る、いのち」を感じさせる。

作品について 2018年9月13日に開業した渋谷ストリームは、利用されなくなった旧東急東横線渋谷駅のホ―ムと線路跡地およびその周辺敷地に誕生した大規模複合施設。ここでの体験・交流・挑戦から生まれる新しいモノ・コトを世界に発信し、「クリエイティブワーカーの聖地」として新たな次代の「流れ」を生み出す事をコンセプトにプロジェクトがスタート。 渋谷における新たな文化創造と、渋谷駅南側エリアの活性を図る本プロジェクトでは、「クリエイティブピープル」をターゲットにし、彼らにとって日常的にインスピレーションが生まれる場を目的としている。WOWは、渋谷駅から直結する100mに及ぶ2階貫通通路入口に設置された巨大映像壁面、明治通り方面へとつながる大階段の環境演出と体験設計を担当。 演出意図 官民連携により渋谷川の再生も行い、渋谷駅南側エリアのアイコンとなる本施設は、クリエイティブやトレンドを押し付けないように配慮。2階貫通通路では、外の雑音を緩和する「緩やかな結界」を音響環境によって生み出し、その環境下で現象的なビジュアルが作り出す擬似的自然環境が、日常的に生活する人々と立ち寄る人々の内的想像性を引き出す事を目指している。 全体演出のコンセプトを「INNER STREAM」と呼び、3つの環境演出を担当。 1. Invisible Stream | 渋谷ストリーム2階玄関口に設置された巨大映像壁面 クリテイティブワーカーの「発想」から、最終的なフィニッシュまでの思考プロセスを流れ＝Invisible Streamとしてビジュアライズ。「Stream」をテーマに、水、川、霧、光など現象的なモチーフを映像化したフィニッシュワークと、CGとプログラム表現における様々なスタディプロセスも一緒に展示する事で、鑑賞者自身の想像力と結びつき、一人一人が違うビジュアル体験をする事が可能となる体験設計を目指した。 2. Fall Stream | 明治通り方面へとつながる映像装置が仕込まれた階段空間 音の渦から音が大階段になだれ込む様な映像演出。滝や水など現象的なモチーフを用いる事で、渋谷川との一体性と訪れる人たちにとって安らげる空間体験を目指した。 3. Barrier Stream | 2階貫通通路及び大階段空間の音響環境 音響環境は、「Sound Architecture」という概念を持つ音楽家、サウンドアーティストのevala [See by Your Ears]とのコラボレーションにより実現した。コンセプトは、吹き抜ける風が印象的な渋谷ストリームの空間。電車やクルマなどの外の音も聞こえるこの場所と調和するサウンドを考案した。渋谷川でフィールドレコーディングした水の音も随所に混ぜ、風が吹くと木々が揺れ、波立つような自然現象のごとく、常に新しい旋律が生成され続け、二度と同じ音は聞こえないプログラムを設計。連結動線に配置されたスピーカーを活用し、都市のノイズを遮断し、内的創造性を高める環境を実現した。

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