Photograph by Kenshu Shintsubo
"Geo-Cosmos, Miraikan"
Photograph by Kenshu Shintsubo
Photograph by Kenshu Shintsubo
An Android Opera “Scary Beauty” was performed as a public program of the ALIFE2018（International conference of artificial life research）in Miraikan. This opera project is collaborated by Keiichiro Shibuya（Musician, Composer）, Hiroshi Ishiguro（a worldwide robot scientist）and Takashi Ikegami Takashi Ikegami（a world wide artificial artist）. A humanoid android with AI “The Alter2” conducts a 28 piece human orchestra “The Volunteer Orchestra of Students and Graduates at Kunitachi College and of Music” and sings with them. Keiichiro Shibuya is in charge of concept, direction and Piano. The opera create an odd, scary beauty with awe for human.
【Keiichiro Shibuya】
Composer and Musician. Born in 1973. Based in Tokyo and Paris. B.A. in music composition, Tokyo University of the Arts.
In 2002 Shibuya established ATAK, a music label releasing CDs of cutting-edge electro-acoustic works by various artists from all over the world. He has produced a lot of music works, for example film music, sound installation, etc.
In 2012 he released the first vocaroid opera 「THE END」without staging any humans in YCAM.Starting with the performance in Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, it has been showed and requested to perform all over the world.
In 2018 he released Android Opera「Scary Beauty」, a humanoid android with AI conducts a human orchestra and sings with them.
He has worked on many cross-sectional collaboration with a lot of researchers and artists, for example Hiroshi Sugimoto（artist）,Hiroshi Ishiguro（robot scientist）in Palais de Tokyo,Jeremie Belingard（dancer / actor）in Opera Garnier, etc.He has developed sound of noise and stereophonic sound with Takashi Ikegami（artificial life scientist）over 15 years.
http://atak.jp
Kana Yoshikawa
Assistant
ATAK TOKYO CO., LTD.
E-mail: kana.yoshikawa1989@gmail.com
Miraikan (National Musseum of Emerging Science and Innovation)（Koto City, Tokyo）
