A video work for a sound installation space by sound artist Corey Fuller of New York ambient label 12K. This was the third collaboration following Fragments on a large screen in Shinjuku and Colure in Ikebukuro. It was a special project created as part of the creator event “Rooms” held at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where a simple space was set up with two screens placed at right angles in an area of about 10m x 20m. A 30-minute clip made by editing landscape footage gathered through fieldwork in Japan and Iceland was prepared in two versions with different effects applied to the same edit, and these were slowly overlapped at the installation venue in a cycle of parameters generated by TouchDesigner. The result is a one-time-only visual experience born from chance on the spot.

Even when each component is separated in time and space, if an order emerges among them, the components transcend spacetime and a singular existence appears. And even if its form and scale undergo dramatic surface-level change, or all of its components are replaced, that singular existence is maintained. This spacetime-based existence is a part of the whole, born from the whole, and returns to the whole. A living cosmos of temporal-spatial existences. An existence is born in space. It is born on the ground as a mass, rising up from the ground. It also appears in the air, transcending the concept of mass, and continues to exist fixed in midair. The contours of these existences are vague, and the glowing spheres that compose them are constantly replaced. Even if a person enters this existence with their whole body, the existence is maintained; even if it is broken by people, it repairs itself. And even if people try to push it or move it aside, the existence cannot be moved. Human physical actions cannot even budge this existence. Rather than creating an object, by creating a special environment, one creates an existence through the order of energy generated by that environment. Let us call these “Higher-Order Sculpture.” It cannot be separated from the environment, and changes along with environmental change. It transcends the conventional notion of existence as an object, remains present in midair, has vague contours, maintains its existence even when a person enters it with their whole body, and repairs its own existence when broken. This is sculpture premised on an open system. Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/ew/morphingcontinuum-kyoto/kyoto/

Description: When you take a selfie while listening to music, effects synchronized with the sound are layered on top. A new kind of music video that adds the “listener” to the traditional “music + visuals.” Developed using ARKit and released as an iOS app. The app and video were exhibited at the Sound Architecture exhibition held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT. *The app is currently unavailable. https://kitasenjudesign.com/jido-rhythm/