“33 minutes and 33 seconds needed before the world ends” A dying Earth. A strange game played by the survivors: “Mood Hall.” A mysterious middle-aged gentleman and a beautiful woman, appearing and disappearing. Little people. Giants. A party. A desert. The bottom of a pool. Dance. Day and night, repeated again and again. Experimental, artistic, adventurous, half sci-fi, half mystery: a densely layered labyrinthine world made of sketches. A masterpiece of film that strips away words and leads you into a world of seeing and hearing alone! ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ In 2016, “Mood Hall” was presented as the latest installation in Kawaiokamura’s retrospective exhibition. It was Kawaiokamura’s first new work in nine years, with sound direction for the entire solo show handled by Mariko Harada. In 2019, “Mood Hall” was completed as a film work, and in 2020 it was released theatrically at Demachiza, a cinema in Kyoto. The music, of course, was by Mariko Harada. It brought the richly layered 33-minute-and-33-second world of image and sound to the screens and speakers of the movie theater. In 2022, the music for “Mood Hall” was completely rewritten by Kazumichi Komatsu. It was made neither as an installation nor for a cinema, but as a composition intended for streaming. Reading the visuals like a score, he struck the sound against the images so powerfully that they changed, and linked each segment through a distinctive sense of floating weightlessness. Reconstructed through Komatsu’s bold interpretation, “Mood Hall” was named “Mood Hall side B.”

　

An audiovisual installation using multiple projectors and transparent screens. This art installation explores the theme of “parallel time” through the ever-changing scenery within the gallery space, where the looping images and the interference between the projected screens constantly create different moments and atmospheres. If time is a shared scale of measurement, then every event and phenomenon occurring along that timeline should exist simultaneously as layered strata, continuing to arise on various scales even in this very moment. In this work, finely cropped abstract images are projected simultaneously using multiple projectors, and are cast with a sense of depth onto transparent screens arranged in a three-dimensional layout. It expresses the idea that all states can coexist as generation and disappearance repeat themselves. This work was exhibited in an underground art space at Hilton Tokyo for “Shinjuku Creators Festa 2017.” An audiovisual installation using multiple projectors and transparent screens. Through the cycles of looping images and the interference of the projected screens, it constantly creates shifting moments, presenting an art installation themed around “parallel time” through the fleeting, once-in-a-lifetime scenery that transforms throughout the gallery space. If time is a single shared scale, then all events and phenomena occurring on that time axis (timeline) exist simultaneously as layered strata, continuing to occur on various scales even in this very moment. In this work, finely cropped abstract images are projected simultaneously by multiple projectors and cast with depth onto transparent screens arranged three-dimensionally in the space. It expresses the idea that generation and disappearance repeat endlessly, and that all states can exist at the same time. This work was exhibited in the underground art space at Hilton Tokyo as part of “Shinjuku Creators Festa 2017.”