ABOUT

The theme of the work is viewing life and death in the cycle of rebirth on the Okinawan island of Kudakajima (based on Niraikanai beliefs of the Amami Islands). Beginning with “Mogaribune”, a song expressing the time from life to burial, there is then an interlude representing the time from burial to the afterlife. Next is the song “Higashi”, when we arrive at the cycle of rebirth’s eastern sky.
Unlike a spectacle you would view with the naked eye, and unlike a video recorded with a regular camera, the experience provided by this work is an entirely new way to take in a concert. It is a live performance reconstructed from a combination of different perspectives on the world: a space scanned as 360-degree 3D point group data with infrared light, colors captured with photogrammetry, movements recorded with depth sensors and audio image from the concert recorded in surround sound from all directions with 360-degree microphones. The audience members will rise above physical constraints to view the performance from any angle they want, whether they want to approach so close to the artist that there is practically no distance between them, or they want to fly in all directions through the forest.