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How Japanese rock star Miyavi performs in a world without live music


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SOURCE: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405253/miyavi-virtual-live-performance-teamlab-planets-interview
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Summary

Miyavi Virtual 3.0 will be available to buy and stream later today — it’s a live performance mixing drone footage with dazzling digital art.At one point Miyavi, a bouncy, enthusiastic character with blue-green hair and a wiry frame covered in black ink wash-style tattoos, came over to me for a distanced elbow bump and asked if I was feeling sleepy. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rob creators of the ability to play in front of live audiences or even record music videos in traditional studios, Miyavi and his creative teams are resorting to technology — and unusual work hours — to keep performing in front of fans.Born Takamasa Ishihara in Osaka in 1981, Miyavi is best known for his fast-paced, catchy electro-rock music and frenetic guitar playing. (He sometimes talks in the third person.) “That’s why we started making the music video for ‘Holy Nights’ with our animators, so that creates a world without having me.”Miyavi dropped the anime-influenced “Holy Nights” video, developed by his US creative team, on YouTube on May 10th, proclaiming it to be the beginning of “Miyavi Virtual.” But an anime music video doesn’t capture a real performance. It allows for “virtual” video that’s based on an actual performance — and of course, it’s easier to do safely than a traditional shoot right now.“The only physical shooting we did was in a volumetric capture studio in Japan,” Cihelna tells The Verge. I think the key for the post-corona era is how real we can feel in a virtual world.”“The capture studio has dozens of cameras pointed at him recording video that is then processed into frame-by-frame 3D models played back in the game engine,” Cihelna says. The resolution on his model is of course not as high as you’d get from a conventional camera or something rendered in 3D by hand, but the production leans into it with otherworldly glitches and particle effects.“It was cool — I’m using superpowers when playing the guitar!” Miyavi laughs, adding that the effects were all added later based on his performance. While the original plan was for a live performance, Miyavi says that the decision to switch to a pre-recording is “due to the intention of creating and prioritizing artwork that has high video quality, amazing light design etc.” (I’m not sure whether the shoots I was present for will actually make it into the final production, but you can at least take it from me that he was there and performing live.)I wanted to know where Miyavi thinks he might go next with these virtual productions. And then right after corona, Black Lives Matter [protests] started — sooner or later it was going to happen and it’s good to have it now so that we start facing the real deep issues and problems that America has been having, which actually other countries like Japan [also] have in some way.”Miyavi believes that the global situation will prompt people to live and work in new ways even after things improve — himself included.

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