Tokyo is a chaotic and disorderly place where new and old things are jumbled together, with buildings and signs crowded together in dense confusion. I turned into video my imagination that if a high-tech, multifunctional “new type” were to appear in the public objects there—such as crosswalks, traffic lights, and signs—it might push Tokyo in an even more chaotic direction...

A lifeform shaped by countless particles keeps walking endlessly, cloaked in fantastical light, in this experimental looped video work. Its fluid forms and organic movement create a mysterious atmosphere, designed to deepen and enhance the world evoked by the ambient music. By intertwining sight and sound, we pursued an immersive visual expression that quietly speaks to the viewer’s sensibilities.

From the song, I felt a summer-ambience kind of vibe and envisioned something ambient and electronic, so I wanted to make the visuals feel cool and refreshing. Although the meaning of the scenes themselves is abstract, I aligned the visuals with the beat and repeated the processes of editing and creating material to match the worldview of the lyrics, aiming for something that felt cohesively connected overall. For the graphic production and compositing (mainly in Blender, with a little final work in AE as well), I kept searching for something that matched the worldview and was pleasant to watch. During the material creation stage, I tried many different things with compositing in Blender, experimenting through trial and error, and connected various nodes together so that, even within abstraction, it would become something attractive and evocative. I did a lot of experimenting.

Music video for the song "Moonlight" by Tokyo Manaka.