This program is a selection of award-winning works from the Japan Media Arts Festival focusing on music videos and short animation films that use music as sound.
It has been said that music videos are one of the few jobs that allow artists to create relatively freely and show their own unique styles. In recent years, the need for music videos has increased as more and more music works are being viewed through video sharing sites, and there has been a huge animated music video movement in Japan, especially among young people.
The winner of this year's Social Impact Award, Haze Haseru Haterumade, is a typical example of this movement. Canaria, which won this year's Entertainment Division New Face Award, is a hand-drawn animated music video that uses VR and shows new possibilities for expression in animation.
Airy Me, YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI, and Satie's Parade were not created by music producers, but are video works that use music as sound. Satie's Parade is a work that combines animation and the music from a ballet first performed in 1917, which is very unique as it looks both like a music video and the animation of a stage performance.
We hope that you will be able to enjoy how animation artists perceive the different music tracks and how they have been able to realize their vision in animation. We also hope that you find some new Japanese music works to listen to.
Lastly, there were many other excellent works that could not be selected for various reasons. Since music videos are often available for free on video sharing sites, you can easily check these out online. And, if you feel like you want to see more videos similar to those that have been introduced here, why not check out some of the award-winning works from previous years?
是次放映節目為日本文化廳媒體藝術祭的獲奬作品,選取作品是以音樂為聲部的音樂錄像以及動畫短片為主。
據說音樂錄像是少數可以讓藝術家自由創作並可展示自己個人獨特風格的工作,而在近年音樂錄像的需求亦相繼增多,因為更多的音樂作品需要透過視像分享網站發佈,日本正正就經歷了一場厲害巨大的動畫音樂錄像運動,尤其是在年輕人的界別中。
今年的社會影響力大奬是由Haze Haseru Haterumade所得,是剛提及的運動中的典型代表作。而今年娛樂組別的新人奬由Canaria獲得,作品為一部手繪動畫音樂錄像,透過VR讓觀者以新方法去探索動畫。
Airy Me, YAMASUKI TAMAZAKI和Satie’s Parade均不是由音樂製作人所創作,而是以音樂作品聲部的錄像作品。Satie’s Parade是一部結合了動畫與1917年首演的一則芭蕾舞音樂的作品,它的獨特在於作品遊走在音樂錄像與舞台演出動畫之間。
我們希望你可以好好享受由動畫藝術家是如何受感音樂,繼而顯現在他們的動畫作品之中,並同樣希望你可以從中聆聽到一些新鮮的日本音樂作品。
最後,還有許多優受的作品我們因為各種原因無法納入是次精選集,然而音樂錄像通常都可於線上免費觀賞,閣下可以很輕鬆在線上查看。如果你喜歡這個選集並想要找多一點同類型作品去觀察,何不去看看我們這些年來的獲奬名單並在線上搜搜看?
Curator 策映人 : OYAMA Kei (Producer and CEO, CALF Co., Ltd.)
Production製作單位: Japan Media Arts Festival Overseas Promotion
日本文化廳媒體藝術祭海外宣傳辦公室
Video length 節目長度: 46:49
Copyright: © 2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan All Rights Reserved
放映節目:動樂樂 – 日本文化廳媒體藝術祭得奬選集
© 2013 Kuno Yoko All Rights Reserved.
KUNO Yoko
17th JMAF Animation Division New Face Award
第17屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別新人奬
Inspired by the song of the same title produced by Cuushe.
An examinee receives medication every day from a nurse in a hospital where mysterious biological experiments are being conducted. One day, the nurse presses a switch, and the examinee transforms into a chimera. What kind of a scene will be created when they continue to have human desires even though they have become something other than human? And what kind of change will it bring to the relationship between the nurse and the examinee?
靈感源自一首同名歌曲「Cuushe」。
某醫院裡正進行一項神秘的生物實驗,一名受檢每天都需要接受護士提供的藥物治療。有一天,當護士按下開關,受檢者變成了一只奇美拉;如果在變成人類以外的東西之下仍然有人類慾望會變成怎麼樣?那護士與受檢者之間又會產生什麼樣的關係變化?
Animation動畫: KUNO Yoko
Music音樂: Cuushe “Airy Me”
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ShiShi Yamazaki
17th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第17屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別評審奬
When you're insanely happy, you're so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy in the first place.
當你陷入瘋狂的快樂中,你為快樂而狂樂,然後卻忘卻一開始你為什麼快樂。
Director導演: ShiShi Yamazaki
Music音樂: Yamasuki's
Yama Yama: Daniel VANGARDE
© MIRAI FILM
MIZUE Mirai / NAKAUCHI Yukie
18th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第18屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別評審奬
This is a music animation commemorating the 10th anniversary of Shugo Tokumaru's debut and the 100th anniversary of Norman MCLAREN's birth. The work is interspersed with homages to MCLAREN's masterpiece, Blinkity Blank.
這是一部紀念Shugo Tokumaru出道十年以及Norman MCLAREN諾文‧麥克拉倫一百歲生辰的動畫音樂作品,作品穿插著對諾文的經典名作「Blinkity Blank」的致敬。
Director & Animation: MIZUE Mirai, NAKAUCHI Yukie
Music: Shugo Tokumaru
© 2015 GAL
HASHIMOTO Baku / NOGAMI Katsuki
19th JMAF Entertainment Division New Face Award
第19屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭娛樂組別新人奬
This is a music video in which the two members of group_inou run through Google Street View images that have been stitched together. The song is from an album titled “MAP” and referencing the name of the album, the video was created by reconstructing a vast amount of “viewpoints” from around the world that were collected from the internet.
這部音樂錄像裡面有group_inou兩名成員在谷歌街景拼接視圖中奔跑的畫面,而歌曲是來自一張名為「MAP」(地圖)的專輯,對照專輯外稱,錄像以通過重組大量來自世界各地在線上搜集而來的視點建構而成。
Material素材: Google Street View TM 谷歌街景TM
System / Software 程式系統/軟件: Hyperlapse.js, openFramework, Node.js, Arduino
Music 音樂: group_inou
© Yamamura Animation
YAMAMURA Koji
20th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第20屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別評審奬
“Parade”, which French composer Erik Satie started composing at the age of 50, is a a piece of ballet music that the poet Apollinaire first introduced with the word “surrealism”. The ballet, which premiered in 1917, was performed with three managers and four performers gathering in front of the circus tent.
YAMAMURA Koji tried to reproduce this stage which was made 100 years ago with a text from Satie's essay, as a surrealistic ballet video along with the performance of Willem Breuker Orchestra. In addition to the characters who appeared in the original ballet, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, and Erik Satie, who created this ballet, also appeared, and they were in charge of the eccentric titles and music of the work. Many of his works were inspired by arts such as René Clair's movie “Entr'Acte”, Man Ray and Picabia, who had a close relationship with Sati. The work was completed in 2016 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Satie's birth and the 100th anniversary of the composition of “Parade.”
法國作曲家Erik Satie在他50歲時開始創作的「Parade」(巡遊)是詩人Apollinaire首次以把超現實主義引入一首芭蕾舞曲。這部芭蕾舞劇於1917年首演,由三位經理人以及四名表演者聚集在馬戲團帳篷前演出。
YAMAMURA Koji試圖根據Satie的文本把百年前的場景重現,作品呈現的是一則超現實主義的芭蕾舞錄像以及Willem Breuker的管弦樂團演出。除了本來出現在演出的人,還加插了創作人Jean cocteau、Pablo Picasso及Erik Satie的現身,他們負責的是古怪的作品名稱及配樂。他許多作品都是受到藝術作品及藝術家的影響,包括René Clair的電影 《Entr'Acte》、Man Ray 及Picabia (與Sati有密切關係)。作品於2016完成,以紀念Satie的150年誕辰以及Parade (巡遊)的創作100周年。
Music / Text 音樂 / 文本 : Erik SATIE (1866-1925)
Music performance 音樂演出: Willem Breuker Kollektief
Arrangement 編曲: Willem BREUKER (1944-2010)
Director / Animation 導演/ 動畫: YAMAMURA Koji
Translation 翻譯 : Ilan NGUYÊN
Production 製作 : Yamamura Animation
Distribution 發行 : Au Praxinoscope
Saigo no Shudan (ARISAKA Ayumu / OITA Mai / KOHATA Ren)
22th JMAF Entertainment Division Jury Selections
第22屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭娛樂組別評審奬
Welcome to the bathhouse from another dimension. Men and women of all ages are welcome to use the bathhouse. This bathhouse is blessed by the God of mountains, and is open free of charge to anybody. Various creatures from this world and the next gather here to take a relaxing bath.
歡迎來到異次元澡堂,不分男女老幼都可以來,這是一所由神泉祝福的澡堂,免費開放。來自這個世界的各種生物或下一個世界的生物都可以在這洗個好澡。
Lyric歌詞 : EVISBEATS, CHAN-MIKA
Music 音樂 : EVISBEATS, MAEDA Kazuhiko
Video 錄像 : Saigo no Shudan
© Yoko Yuki
Yoko Yuki
23th JMAF Animation Division Jury Selections
第23屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別評審奬
This work was created as a music video for the song ShalaBonBon by Bonno Shimizu. Birds, flowers, people, and other living things appear one after another, set to a light acoustic sound plus the catchy phrase, “shalabonbon”. The noise-processed effect, which is vivid and fluorescent, was achieved by filming a 2D animation played on a CRT TV.
作品是Bonno Shimizu的歌曲ShalaBonBon的音樂錄像;飛鳥、花朵、人們與及其他的生命一個接一個出現,投入至輕柔的和弦中,配合那句朗朗上口的「shalabonbon」,而片中的噪音處理效果,又生動又螢光,是把二維動畫播放在CRT電視再重錄的效果。
Director導演: YUKI Yoko
Music 音樂 : Bonnou Shimizu
© UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Waboku
24th JMAF Animation Division Social Impact Award
第24屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭動畫組別社會影響力大奬
With a fast-paced sound and a high-pitched singing voice, this work depicts the recollections and consequences of a girl who says goodbye to her friends and the past and leaves for space alone. The girl changes from her normal clothes into a spacesuit-like outfit and the animation unfolds one scene after another, with the girl singing into a microphone, riding a surfboard through space, and dancing to the beat. Strange creatures, desolate places, and characters that look like an ancient language highlight a pop-themed yet still quite decadent view of the world. Rather than following a single storyline, the music is prioritized in the work, which increases its appeal and evocativeness.
這部作品以明快節奏的聲音與高亢的歌聲建構而成,描繪女孩告別友人、一些過去的碎片以及獨自前往太空交織的後果。女孩把她的平常衣裝換成宇航服,動畫呈現一幕接一幕,揭露女孩對著米高鋒唱歌、騎著衝浪版穿梭太空及隨著節拍編編起舞。古怪的生物、分列的片角、古舊角色的穿插,點亮了流行的主題也提供了另一種世界視野,音樂不是遵循單一的故事情節,音樂在作品中佔很重要的位置,以加重其吸引力與號召力。
Music 音樂: ZUTOMAYO
Animation 動畫: Waboku
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YUHARA Kazuki
24th JMAF Entertainment Division New Face Award
第24屆日本文化廳媒體藝術祭娛樂組別新人奬
Canaria is a 360-degree, hand-drawn VR animation by YUHARA Kazuki, a student at the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts. It also serves as a music video for the song of the same name by Shugo Tokumaru, which is both experimental and pop. The video, which took over six months to create, is based on the theme of a canary's encounter with the world. It is a colorful, meticulously hand-drawn 360-degree animation that can be experienced using VR goggles, an omnidirectional screen, a computer, or a smartphone. In this virtual space, viewers are encouraged to immerse themselves in the magnificent worldview. The piece is an attempt to redefine music videos from something to be viewed to something to be experienced.
《Canaria》是東京藝術大學動畫系學生YUHARA Kazuki的手繪動畫製作而成的360 VR作品,它是Shugo Tokumaru的同名歌曲的音樂錄像,兼備實驗性及流行性。作品花了六個月去完成,這是一部色彩豐富、精心手繪的360全景動畫,可以使用VR眼鏡去體驗。在這個虛擬空間內,觀者可以全面沉醉在裡面壯麗的世界觀中,作品希望可以嘗試重新定義音樂錄像的經驗與觀看模式。
All Audio 聲音 : Shugo Tokumaru
Animation 動畫 : SHIMA Naohiro
Director 導演/ Animation動畫 : YUHARA Kazuki
360 Mixing 360製作: KASAI Toshihiko
Tech Support 技術支援: KUBO Jiro