STU48 "If I Change into Winter Clothes" Music Video

From singer-songwriter RIQUO’s album “TWIN PIANOS,” a short animation set to the song “The Meaning Of Love.” A singer sings of the meaning of love amid sounds that echo and travel through water. “How many springs have passed since we first met? And there are things known only to the two of us And now I am by your side That feeling I have when I’m singing I know it—this love is true” (excerpt from the lyrics) Like improvising within a jazz piece, this is a visual poem drawn from imagination, valuing feeling over meaning.

Using a stroke font, I manipulated it in p5 and filmed the process of rendering it with a pen plotter. Since the commission was for a lyric video, I explored an expression that would go beyond the usual approach of scattering the existing lyrics across the screen. I pursued the beauty of drawing on paper while eliminating the wet, fluid qualities inherent in lettering, such as the order in which the strokes are drawn.

I created this piece with an emphasis on the contrast between the band performance and the drama segments. I wanted to strongly bring out the surreal comedic feel in the drama segments, so I packed in all kinds of elements almost to the point of overdoing it, and intentionally kept the performance cuts simple. My thanks to everyone in Bye-Bye Nietzsche and to Mr. Yamada for their dedicated acting.

Music video for “gd612,” a track by Black Boboi, the music unit formed by Utena Kobayashi, Julia Shortreed, and ermhoi.