Sound producer SKYTOPIA, also a member of KOMONO LAKE and Coldhot, and graphic designer Ikuho Tamura have released their fourth collaborative single, “FLUTERRA.” Based on UK garage and trap beats, this work—whose title combines a word for flute with a coined term meaning earth—was completed through the parallel production of both the music and the visuals. Its simple vector art, composed of limited areas of color, expresses a dynamic yet fanciful ecosystem.

mekakushe Digital Single “Liquefaction”

Description: “Diabetes 3-Minute Learning” is a new type of educational video series for people with diabetes, offering themed lessons of about three minutes each on the knowledge they should master. We were responsible for producing the opening animation. When it comes to learning about illness, it can seem difficult and a little intimidating, so we aimed to make the characters’ unique personalities and the world they inhabit feel warm and approachable, helping to ease that impression as much as possible. It received the Planning Encouragement Award at the “Eibunren Awards 2015.” We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone involved.

When listening to “Hada no Yume” as a song, I felt my chest tighten with a deep ache, as if something within the hearts of the living were drifting to the surface, in a film where death and life quietly coexist and seep into one another. Through the MV, which I was invited to make after Director Horigimoto saw my work Honekami, I wanted to depict the nature of Shikoku and Kochi with tactile detail, and create an image that was not a line-by-line visual translation of the poem. What is “Hada no Yume”? The innocent, soft sense of reassurance in which one can remain unaware even of being “naked” is just like the feeling of those left behind, warmed by thoughts of the person they love. I wanted, in my own way as an MV, to weave into it the director’s feelings for the film, as well as the gentleness of the light that binds the false image and the real one, through the life and death close to me, and through flowers and the seasons. Lost lives do not return, and the living can only continue to remember. I created this piece while thinking of the mother in the film Hada no Yume, and of Yume. https://honamiyano.com/works/