真鍋 大 度

Perfume

Daito Manabe

source: ft

Perfume is Japan’s top techno-pop girl trio – Nocchi, Kashiyuka and Aa-Chan – whose music and synchronised dance sessions have won them a global online fan base. This year they have had their first sellout European tour. Their distinctive sound is the work of Japanese electronic music guru Yasatuka Nakata who has been their music producer since 2003. Their stunning performance at the Lions International Festival of Creativity at Cannes recently was the result of their collaboration with leading Japanese techno-artist Daito Manabe. Manabe is one of a new generation of programmers whose genre-crossing work has placed him at the cutting edge of techno-art-music-performance. His art embraces dynamic sensory programming, projection mapping and body capture; lasers, robots and sonar.
After graduating from the University of Science in Tokyo, Manabe studied dynamic sensory programming at Japan’s International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), which is dedicated to the fusion of advanced technology and artistic creativity. In 2006 he founded Rhizomatiks, the graphic and web design company, and in 2011 he came to media attention when his video piece, Face Visualiser, instrument and copy, had more than a million YouTube hits in its first month. Since then he has become an increasingly regular presence at transmedia festivals around the world. He is currently involved with the Creators Project, a global online network dedicated to pushing the creative boundaries of technical innovation across multiple disciplines.
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source: huffingtonpostjp

Perfumeのライブでは、観客参加型の「3DScan System for Perfume」を利用。観客の身体を3Dスキャンしたデータによって、当日に行われたライブの映像を作成。合計で1万体のスキャンデータを取得。現在は計算量が多くリアルタイムでは難しい表現だが、5年以内にはこういった表現もリアルタイムで可能になっていくという。

その他、ライブ向けのアプリ「Perfume Music Player」を公開。観客の楽曲視聴情報や位置情報などのビックデータを映像制作の際に使用する試みも行っている。

真鍋さんは、『Perfume Official Global Website』のディレクションのほか、2013年には世界中で反響を呼んだカンヌ国際クリエイティブ・フェスティバルでのPerfumeのパフォーマンスの演出を手がけている。
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source: fabcafe

For the “Perfume Global Site Project,” original music created by Yasutaka Tanaka and Perfume’s motion capture data of a dance choreographed by MIKIKO were released on the website as open source data. Creators around the world are creating dance video full of individuality by using Perfume members’ movements.

The numerous videos produced ranged from cute dancing animated characters to a sumo Perfume dance(!), showing breadth and diversity that exceeded expectations. One might say that they are DIWO creations made by yet unknown fellow creators. The challenge to explore the new relationship between artists and fans, and with creators, stands.

Mr. Fukuda said, “Video produced from the scan of a flesh-and-blood body awakens fascinating sensations. Video taken by regular video cameras and video created from scratch by computer graphics both brim with different idiosyncrasies and possibilities.”