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Tsukuba Series:Distincition Interactive Art

Tsukuba Music

According to the spread of IT apparatus, such as a sampler, a synthesizer, and a personal computer (Internet) these days, music has been separated from "a substance" (= a musical instrument) and is now considered as "information." The style of enjoying music has changed, and as a result, people talk about music in the fashion of: "I know such a maniac song", "I can remix the original song like this" or "I have a lot of music data". People are pleased by gathering "information on the music" that can be heard only through the speakers.

Tsukuba Music is designed to stir people's attention to notice the fact that "the live musical sound is created from a substance" - which the music once used to be in years past and they have totally forgotten.

Tsukuba Series is played by the movement of motors and / or electromagnets at 100V and makes a sound by physically beating / knocking a substance. It is a challenge to revive a live music sound with the power of machines. Tsukuba was named after Tsukuba City, a technological city in the Ibaragi prefecture in Japan.

Unique and original genres of music have often been born in specialized cities like Liverpool and Motown, the famous industrial cities. Maywa Denki dreams that the next, new type of music will be created and spread worldwide from Tsukuba, the city of the most advanced technology in Japan.





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