Android Opera "Scary Beauty" - Keiichiro Shibuya at New National Theatre, Tokyo

Directed by Taira Masui (COLORS)
人工生命 × アンドロイド『Alter3』- 4社共同研究プロジェクト
“コミュニケーションを通じて世界を鮮やかに変えていくこと”を事業活動のミッションに抱え、オルタ3のシミュレーターを提供する「ミクシィ」、世界的なアンドロイド研究のパイオニアである「大阪大学石黒研究室（アンドロイド開発：小川浩平）」、ALife(人工生命)研究のパイオニアである「東京大学池上研究室」、本プロジェクトの実証実験の場を提供する「ワーナーミュージック・ジャパン」によって発足された、人間とのコミュニケーションの可能性を探るために開発された人工生命×アンドロイド『オルタ3』に関する共同研究プロジェクト。2019年2月28日(木)に新国立劇場にて『4社共同研究プロジェクト合同記者発表会』開催。 オルタ３の世界初公開、渋谷慶一郎氏によるオルタ３とのアンドロイド・オペラ『Scary Beauty（スケアリー・ビューティ）』初公演に加え、プロジェクトの今後の展開について発表された。
▼Scary Beauty：Official HomePage
scarybeauty.com/
▼mixi, Inc.：Corporate website
mixi.co.jp/csr...

[@shibalea2000]

The lyrics is as follows Scary Beauty 渋谷慶一郎作曲　ミシェル・ウェルベック作詞　中村桂子訳 僕は愛に出会うだろうと At heart I have always known that I would find love そしてそれは死の間際のことだろうと And that this would be On the eve of my death 僕はずっと信じていた　諦めなかった I have always been confident, I have not given up 君が現れるずっと前から　君を予感していた Long before your presence, You were announced to me そうだ　君こそが　僕の現実なのだろう So you will be the one, My real presence 夢や幻ではない君の肌に　僕はうっとりするだろう I will be in the joy Of your non-fictional skin こんなにもなめらかで　こんなにも軽やかで繊細な So soft to the caress, So light and so fine 神とはちがう実態物　やさしさを持つ動物 Entity non-divine, Animal of tenderness 死んだ鳥の住むこの地上に　果てしなく広がる平原 Beneath the sun of the dead bird, Spread infinitely the plain, 安らかな死なんてどこにもない There is no death more serene, ほんの少しでもいい　あなたの体を見せて Show me some of your body 僕は愛に出会うだろうと At heart I have always known that I would find love そしてそれは死の間際のことだろうと And that this would be On the eve of my death

[@user-pp6kj7vv1o]

感動した 寂しい雰囲気から光を刺すようなもの激しさになんだか救われた ありがとう

[@user-yr2nv8jx9q]

音楽もさることながらカメラワークも素晴らしい‼️ 音と映像、テクノロジー、それぞれが共鳴しあってる！

[@felipeiglesias]

One of the most incredible things I have ever see in my life. Over and over again. Genius!

[@civilizedperson3322]

I need your your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

[@zoltron30]

Right in line with bible prophecy

[@kaijin5996]

Quelle superbe morceau🤩 Monsieur Shibuya j’espère que vous reviendrez en France à l’occasion de la réouverture du théâtre du châtelet. Je suis allé voir votre opéra THE END en 2013 et je l’ai trouvé fabuleux et innovant😊☺️ Merci de partager avec nous tous vos chefs d’œuvres

[@soraxl]

I think this is a huge advancement in ai that it is conducting and adding lyrics to a composed work. It is hard enough conducting a live symphony, let alone adding words to the work. And then to add that it did this all in it's free will

[@fractalelement857]

nah bro

[@Musicman2012Now]

Utter nonsense. There is so much wrong here, I don't know where to start. If our local symphony would use a robot instead of a human conductor, I would end my season subscriptions. In my opinion, this composer is a sell-out. Did he really need the money that badly, that he would contribute more to the decline of the music industry?!

[@ProlificSwan]

I have some friends who play professionally in orchestras, and they've said that no one pays attention to the conductor anyways. That said, this robot conductor is garbage. All show, little substance. Like why is it constantly gyrating up and down? The hand gestures are way too imprecise to be a useful cue for any of the musicians to start their phrases. Oh well.

[@LillyJem]

@@ProlificSwan I would say the up-down movement is the establishment of tempo. That tempo is initially determined by a cyclical pattern generator that creates slight deviations from perfect time keeping (just like a human percussionist for example) but is affected by the orchestra and audiences audio-visual responses as they are picked up by the microphones and cameras attached to the frame and run through its neural network. Alter 3 isn’t telling the orchestra when to start playing; as the melody and number of bars for the composition are predetermined (as are the lyrics, although created by training a neural network on pieces of classic romantic literature), it is only giving the volume and speed at which the piece is to be played through its movements. The creators are very clear about this. The movements of Alter 3 are determined dynamically by the trained response of the Android to sensory input and analysis of human expression to alter the state of the numerous actuators by way of an electronic ‘nervous system’ designed to mimic the logic of neural circuits in living organisms. It’s voice is also dynamic in this way; utilising recorded samples purposefully composed to sound somewhat robotic; but having the live expression dynamically altered by the neural network. I suppose this has very little to do with the music industry, and everything to do with storytelling, emotive artistic expression, emerging robotic technologies and the live audience response.

[@kemekoist]

Despite the ever changing styles of how music is made and recorded I do think the music industry will survive but probably not the form of what we see right "now."　If you think that AI is one of the factors to accelerate the demise of music industry then I guess you don't ever use social media, computer science and software. Some of the modern instruments use electricity. Creating AI conductor and perhaps AI musicians could be a good thing because in the future when another huge pandemic strikes again we could have some concerts with AI orchestra and bands at hospitals and public area with less possibility of spreading infectious disease. Please, imagine how people in ancient times listen to music. They had to listen live and not on youtube or other modern recording device. I guess there're pros and cons but we can't stop from people creating new ways to conduct an orchestra.

[@inst-bf6gl]

人間がロボットに指揮されてるというところに恐怖や狂気を感じた。 それと同時に科学の発展を嬉しく思い、未来の可能性を感じる自分も居た。 衝撃的なムービーだったし音楽も凄く良かった。