Live Performance

evala (See by Your Ears)

Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - Live Performance ver

Special video replay

  • Dec. 20, 2021, 00:00 – Jan. 11, 2022, 00:00 (CET)

    Dec. 20, 2021, 08:00 – Jan. 11, 2022, 08:00 (JST)

    This video is a replay of a performance that was streamed live on Sept. 12.

To watch the show, please purchase an online ticket for Ars Electronica Festival. Please note that registration are required.
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Photo by MIYAWAKI Shintaro

​​Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver, which won a Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Digital Musics & Sound Art Honorary Mention, originated from three works presented in the sound exhibition Chosho Hakkei held in 2019 at Nakazu Banshoen Garden and Marugame Museum of Art in Kagawa Prefecture. evala reconstructed these three works into an 8.1.2-ch. spatial audio work at Ochanomizu Rittor Base in February 2020, and released it as a stereophonic streaming/downloadable sound source using HPL, a technology that allows listeners to experience 3D sound through headphones. This time, evala will return to Rittor Base in Ochanomizu for an online live performance titled “Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - Live Performance ver” using the 3D sound system and high-definition video system.

  • Performer: evala
  • Sound engineer: KUBO Jiro
  • Photography/Video direction: SHINTSUBO Kenshu
  • Lighting: 2bit
  • Producer: KUNISAKI Susumu
  • Lighting assistant/Motion Capture: NAMIKAWA Kosaku
  • Production management: NAGAMURA Yoshino
  • Venue: Ochanomizu Rittor Base (Tokyo, Japan)

Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver

Prix Ars Electronica 2021
Digital Musics & Sound Art Honorary Mention

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Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver

​​Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver is a creation based on Chosho Hakkei, a sound exhibition held in 2019 at Nakazu Banshoen Garden and Marugame Museum of Art (organized by Nakazu Banshoen Garden Hosho-kai, curatorial director ABE Kazunao), set in a Japanese garden with over 330 years of history. It was an experimental project to transform a historical cultural asset with the power of radical sound art, in which evala presented three works that intersected space and time axes, composed with original binaural audio technology based on sounds recorded around Lake Biwa and real-time environmental sounds in the garden, which are associated with the eight sceneries of Omi. In February 2020, these works were presented as a 45-minute seamless 8.1.2-ch. spatial audio remix at the Rittor Base in Ochanomizu. Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver was released as a stereophonic streaming/downloadable sound source using HPL, a technology that allows users to simulate 3D sound with headphones.

  • Artist: evala
  • Running Time: 5 songs / Total 41'43”
  • Release Date: January 25, 2021
  • Label: Rittor Base
  • Number: RMRB001
  • Distribution: High-resolution distribution on OTOTOY, worldwide distribution on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.

  • All Sound Production
    Composed, Recorded & Mixed by: evala
  • HPL Mastering: KUBO Jiro
  • Cover Design: TANAKA Ryoji
  • Cover Photo: SHINTSUBO Kenshu
  • Curatorial Direction: ABE Kazunao
  • Production: See by Your Ears
  • Special Thanks: Rittor Base, Acoustic Field Inc., Semitransparent Design, Nakazu Banshoen, Whole Universe, EDGEof, and SUZUKI Akio

Director’s comment

​​The term “sound artist” is not enough to describe what evala creates. The founder of See by Your Ears, evala is a pioneer in evoking deep perceptions through the act of listening. He is an artist and an artisan who manipulates the latest technology, while never compromising in creating works of art even with challenges that future technology may cause. His spatial view of the musical world leads to the evolution of innovative sound technology and methods. Chosho Hakkei, a work that was first performed in a 330-year-old garden in Japan that embraces all things in nature, will be delivered live from a new concept of a teahouse specially designed for this event with an unseen barrier, an experience that transcends time and space. (TOMURA Asako)

evala

Photo by KUNISAKI Susumu

evala

Musician/Sound artist

​​Born in 1976. evala has been creating edgy works of electronic music and exploring auditory experiences with the use of 3D sound systems as new instruments. Founder of See by Your Ears, which explores the dormant possibilities in hearing, guided by the concept “seeing with one’s ears.” In 2020, evala received the Excellence Award at the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival for his Sea, See, She - To you, who is yet to come, based on the concept of “invisible cinema.” In 2021, he received the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for his spatial sound album Chosho Hakkei in Rittor Base - HPL ver.

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KUBO Jiro

KUBO Jiro

Sound engineer (Acoustic Field)

​​Founded Acoustic Field Inc. in 2007. KUBO’s work includes the development of sound systems and consulting on spatial audio, and based on his rich experience, he provides technical support for sound artists’ music production and installations using spatial audio. In 2014, he released the high-quality binaural processing technology “HPL.” He is a technical director of See by Your Ears.

SHINTSUBO Kenshu

SHINTSUBO Kenshu

Photographer

​​​​Born in 1968. Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He works in photography, video and other media. His major works include＼Landscape (Kadokawa Shoten, 2012) and Rugged TimeScape (collaboration with IKEGAMI Takashi, FOIL, 2010). Recent major exhibitions in Japan include the Saitama Triennale 2020 and the Northern Alps Art Festival 2017.

2bit

2bit

Programmer
ISHII 2bit Program Office

​​Born in 1984. In 2010, started working as a multi-genre programmer. He gives direction and develops interactive content, mobile apps and server technology. He is also involved in stage direction and lighting direction. His representative works include HagukiWokamuToRingoKaraTiGaDeru, an exhibition in which a group of fluorescent lights are triggered to light up by the noise emitted by other fluorescent lights when they’re turned on, and these are reflected in a mirror so there appear to be many more lights than there actually are.

KUNISAKI Susumu

NAMIKAWA Kosaku

Programmer

​​Born in 2000. NAMIKAWA is an undergraduate student in the School of Informatics, the University of Tsukuba. He specializes in performing arts and installation works, and currently works as an assistant to various artists, helping them with their creations. He also works as a CG artist and VJ for video production, and conducts research on HCI at the university.

KUNISAKI Susumu

KUNISAKI Susumu

Director of Rittor Base

​​Born in 1963. While working for 20 years as the editor-in-chief of Sound & Recording Magazine, a magazine for sound creators, he started a live recording event called Premium Studio Live in 2010, and launched a label to distribute the recorded sound in high-resolution. At the end of 2018, he opened the multipurpose studio Rittor Base and is working on creating new content for sound installations and live streaming with a binaural premise.

Rittor Base Ochanomizu

Venue

Ochanomizu Rittor Base

​​Rittor Base is a multipurpose space established by Ritto Music Inc. in Ochanomizu, Tokyo’s premier musical instrument district, offering an ideal environment for the sound of musical instruments and the best in audio, video and streaming equipment. It has earned a reputation for its spatial audio equipment, and hosts a variety of events such as live binaural transmissions, installation exhibitions and surround-sound movie screenings.


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