#Seiko Mikami

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Japan's synthesized singing sensation Hatsune Miku turns 16

CHIBA

Hatsune Miku has always been 16 years old and worn long aqua ponytails.

She is Japan's most famous Vocaloid — a computer-synthesized singing voice software that, in her case, comes with a virtual avatar.

Legions of fans are celebrating the 16th anniversary of Miku's Aug. 31, 2007, release with events including a virtual exhibition and songwriting to showcase her standard high-pitched, cutesy voice. For sale are a special Seiko watch and a series of dolls in the character's likeness.

The Vocaloid’s hits have been widely shared online, including on Miku’s own official YouTube channel, which has drawn 2.5 million subscribers. She has CDs and DVDs out and video games focused on fun rhythms co-produced with Sega, as well as cosmetic products plastered with her name and famous manga artists drawing portraits of her for T-shirts.

On Friday, thousands of people packed a concert hall in a Tokyo suburb to watch their virtual idol dance and sing while accompanied by human musicians.

The audience bobbed colorful light sticks in time to the music, with some people dressed like the doe-eyed Miku. As laser beams flashed about, the cheering crowd, who knew the songs and the choreographed moves by heart, performed them in unison. A human-size hologram of Miku was projected at the center of a dark stage as though she was really there.

“I love the way her voice doesn’t sound human,” Koyo Mikami, 16, said while attending the event at Makuhari Messe Convention Center with a friend. Both boys wore kimonos featuring large images of Miku.

Miku's voice was synthesized based on the voice of Saki Fujita, a human singer, actor and voice actor.

The Vocaloid software application works on both Windows and Mac computers by taking inputs of melody and Japanese language lyrics and outputting the music with Miku as the vocalist. Edits like adding vibrato are as easy as double-clicking. Although various versions are available, the latest official Crypton package sells for 16,500 yen ($110).

Miku is 158 centimeters tall (5-foot-2) and weighs 42 kilograms (93 pounds), is perpetually 16 years old, and favors songs with tempos between 70 and 150 beats per minute, according to Crypton.

Whether being 16 makes a technology outdated or a classic is up to the beholder. While Hatsune Miku, whose name translates to “first note from the future,” pioneered a genre, many other Vocaloids are now on the market. The technology has advanced since Miku’s early days, with all kinds of voices and features available.

The voice synthesizer software has been featured in more than 100,000 songs, performed in 3D concerts in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, and inspired countless works of art.

Hatsune Miku owes her reign as the “It Girl” of the digital era to the participatory nature of Japan's manga, animation and pop music culture, according to Benjamin Boas, author of “From Cool Japan to Your Japan.” Instead of strictly guarding their intellectual property, publishers and other copyright holders encourage fan participation, he said.

Unlike Mickey Mouse, Super Mario and other copyright-protected characters, Hatsune Miku was offered as open-source software, with a Creative Commons license in the West that allows people to more freely use and distribute the content they make with the software.

“Miku’s success was always about the fan community and the ability for fans to become all Miku’s producers at once," said Boas, whom the Japanese government named as the country’s Cool Japan Ambassador, a symbolic honor.

"As long as that community is alive, I see a future for Miku.”

Creators who make music with Vocaloids are called “Vocalo-P” in Japan, with the “p” standing for “producer.” Some have gone on to become superstars in Japan, including the duo Yoasobi and singer Kenshi Yonezu.

People are also having fun with various voices for Vocaloids. Among the recent performances shared with a frenzy online is an AI version of Frank Sinatra doing a rendition of “YMCA,” a 1978 hit by the Village People, never performed on record by the legendary crooner.

Hiroyuki Itoh, chief executive of Crypton Future Media, which developed Hatsune Miku and is based in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, said creating a character to go with the voice software was part of making the program user-friendly.

“We wanted to make it easy to use for amateurs who want to make music as a hobby,” he said. “Some people can’t sing very well, and here you have a 16-year-old girl singing your song.”

There are no plans to end Miku's perpetual adolescence or to age her beyond 16.

“We will do our best as a company to make sure Hatsune Miku will continue to be loved by the people," Itoh said.

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Seiko Mikami, cited by no less an authority than @brucesterling as the most cyberpunk person to ever live.

Her work “Bad Art for Bad People: Cross Section of Cable Neuron System” (1986)

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三上晴子 「New Formation of Decline 滅ビノ新造型」

[xinu1941-1966]

flyer / ワルプルギス (1986)　 illustration：丸尾末広

東京グランギニョル

作・演出：飴屋法水 norimizu AMEYA

舞台美術：三上晴子 seiko MIKAMI

大塚ジェルスホール　1986.10.03-10.16

TOKYO_Grand_Guignol

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Gosho's Detective Picture Book Reviews

My review of detectives (and detective novels) based on Gosho's Detective Picture Book (also called Gosho's Mystery Library) are as below, to be completed not in the near future.

❤️ denote my personal favorites

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) ❤️

Kogoro Akechi (Edogawa Rampo)

Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) ❤️

Arsene Lupin (Maurice Leblanc)

Jules Maigret (Georges Simenon)

Kousuke Kindaichi (Seishi Yokomizo)

Lieutenant Columbo (Richard Levison and William Link)

Zenigata Heiji (Kodo Nomura)

Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler)

C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe)

Ellery Queen (Ellery Queen) ❤️

V.I. Warshawski (Sara Paretsky)

Father Brown (C.K. Chesterton)

Cordelia Gray (P.D. James) ❤️

Heizo Hasegawa (Shotaro Ikenami)

Mitsuhiko Asami (Yasuo Uchida)

Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout)

Shunsaku Kudo (Nobumitsu Kodaka)

Hannibal Lecter (Thomas Harris)

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) ❤️

Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammett)

Shozo Totsugawa (Kyotaro Nishimura)

Ninzaburo Furuhata (Kouki Mitani)

Perry Mason (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Mikeneko Holmes (Jiro Akagawa)

Inspector Samejima (Arimasa Osawa)

James Bond (Ian Fleming)

Kyosuke Kamizu (Akimitsu Takagi)

Charlie Chan (Earl Derr Biggers)

John Thorndyke (Richard Austin Freeman)

Touyama Kin-san (Tatsurou Jinde)

Mike Hammer (Mickey Spillane)

Philo Vance (S.S. Van Dine)

Akakabu-kenji (Shunzo Waku)

Drury Lane (Ellery Queen)

Katherine Turner (Misa Yamamura)

Henry Jackson (Isaac Asimov)

Denshichi (Tatsurou Jinde)

Lew Archer (Ross Macdonald)

Kiyoshi Mitarai (Soji Shimada)

The Old Man in the Corner (Baroness Orczy)

Joseph Rouletabille (Gaston Leroux)

Hanshichi (Kido Okamoto) ❤️

Koichiro Munakata (Seiichi Morimura)

Eitaro Imanishi (Seicho Matsumoto)

Gideon Fell (John Dickson Carr)

Yuichiro Goda (Kaoru Takamura)

Ukyou Sugishita (Yasuhiro Koshimizu)

Steve Carella (Ed McBain)

Hideo Himura (Alice Arisugawa)

Riyako Asabuki (Shizuko Natsuki)

Robert Ironside (Collier Young)

Akihiko Chuzenji (Natsuhiko Kyogoku)

Kiyoshi Shimada (Yukito Ayatsuji)

The Continental Op (Dashiell Hammett) ❤️

Ningyo Sashichi (Seishi Yokomizo)

Joseph French (Freeman Wills Crofts)

Yoshibumi Takagi (Kenzo Kitakata)

Mom (James Yaffe)

Rintaro Norizuki (Rintaro Noziruki)

Koko (Lilian Jackson Braun)

Manabu Yukawa (Keigo Higashino) ❤️

Daisuke Kanbe (Yasutaka Tsutsui)

Inspector Zenigata (Monkey Punch)

Robert Langdon (Dan Brown)

Akojuro Senba (Juran Hisao)

Kanki Ibaragi (Futaro Yamada)

Bannai Tarao (Yoshitake Hisa)

Richard Cuff (Wilkie Collins)

Philip Trent (E.C. Bentley)

Gregory House (David Shore)

Yoshio Kuraishi (Hideo Yokoyama)

Adrian Monk (Andy Breckman and David Hoberman)

Inspector Onitsura (Tetsuya Ayukawa)

Enshi Shunotei (Kaoru Kitamura)

Lincoln Rhyme (Jeffery Deaver)

Kei Enomoto (Yusuke Kishi)

Keisuke Shiratori (Takeru Kaido)

Genya Tojo (Shinzo Mitsuda)

Shioriko Shinokawa (En Mikami)

Handyman of Susukino (Naomi Azuma)

Kageyama (Tokuya Higashigawa)

Hotaro Oreki (Honobu Yonezawa)

Lisbeth Salander (Stieg Larsson)

Lieutenant Fukuie (Takahiro Ookura)

Takeshi Yoshiki (Soji Shimada)

Jiro Egami (Alice Arisugawa)

Kyouko Okitegami (Nisio Isin)

Sakurako Kujou (Shiori Ota)

The Phantom Thief Detective Yamaneko (Manabu Kaminaga)

Riko Rinda (Keisuke Matsuoka)

Shinichiro Hanaoka (Koji Hayashi and Junpei Yamaoka)

Richard Castle (Andrew W. Warlowe)

Hiroto Miyama (Manabu Uda)

Yukimasa Yugami (Hideo Iura)

Mikoto Mitsumi (Akiko Nogi)

Keita Kurokochi (Takashi Nagasaki)

Totono Kuno (Yumi Tamura)

Maomao (Natsu Hyuga)

Sherlock Holmes (Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss) ❤️

Rohan Kishibe (Hirohiko Araki)

Seiko Fuji (Miko Yasu)

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Seiko Mikami

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VAs

Karin Anami: Maaya Uchida/Victoria Grace

Lumus: Kotono Mitsuishi/Carrie Savage

Reo Hosaka: Romi Park/Courtenay Taylor

Shunta Itsuki: Seiko Yoshida/Brianne Siddall

Anzu Itsuki: Ari Ozawa/Kyla Rae Kowalewski

Bookkeeper: Satsuki Yukino/Colleen Clinkenbeard

Elfed Wright: Masachika Ichimura/Alan Oppenheimer

Flow: Masami Nagasawa/Carrie Keranen

Flicker: Hiromi Konno/Lisa Ortiz

Terrain: Miho Sakuma/Roz Ryan

Strike: Miyuki Sawashiro/E. G. Daily

Flora: Hitomi Nabatame/Jennifer Tilly

Crawl: Satsumi Matsuda/Jeremy Shada

Strength: Rina Satō/Max Charles

Reflect: Kaori Shimizu/Rozie Curtis

Mystify: Kana Asumi/Luci Christian

Increase: Ryōta Ōsaka/Todd Haberkorn

Reduce: Shiori Mikami/Kether Donahue

Chill: Mari Hamada/Tabitha St. Germain

Tempo: Miho Hino/Brittney Karbowski

Reverie: Ikue Ōtani/Christine Marie Cabanos

Hibernate: Minori Chihara/Maggie Flecknoe

Pitch: Nana Mizuki/Deedee Magno Hall

Dune: Yu Kobayashi/Caitlin Glass

Conceal: Yuri Shiratori/Andrea Libman

Clash: Megumi Hayashibara/Wendee Lee

Reveal: Yuka Imai/Nicole Oliver

Nameless Djinn/Cherish: Mai Takahashi/Avril Lavigne

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Djinn Masters VAs!

Karin Anami: Maaya Uchida/Victoria Grace

Lumus: Kotono Mitsuishi/Carrie Savage

Reo Hosaka: Romi Park/Courtenay Taylor

Shunta Itsuki: Seiko Yoshida/Brianne Siddall

Anzu Itsuki: Ari Ozawa/Kyla Rae Kowalewski

Bookkeeper: Satsuki Yukino/Colleen Clinkenbeard

Elfed Wright: Masachika Ichimura/Alan Oppenheimer

Flow: Masami Nagasawa/Carrie Keranen 

Flicker: Hiromi Konno/Lisa Ortiz

Terrain: Miho Sakuma/Roz Ryan

Strike: Miyuki Sawashiro/E. G. Daily

Flora: Hitomi Nabatame/Jennifer Tilly

Crawl: Satsumi Matsuda/Jeremy Shada

Strength: Rina Satō/Max Charles

Reflect: Kaori Shimizu/Rozie Curtis

Mystify: Kana Asumi/Luci Christian

Increase: Ryōta Ōsaka/Todd Haberkorn

Reduce: Shiori Mikami/Kether Donahue

Chill: Mari Hamada/Tabitha St. Germain

Tempo: Miho Hino/Brittney Karbowski

Reverie: Ikue Ōtani/Christine Marie Cabanos

Hibernate: Minori Chihara/Maggie Flecknoe

Pitch: Nana Mizuki/Deedee Magno Hall

Dune: Yu Kobayashi/Caitlin Glass

Conceal: Yuri Shiratori/Andrea Libman

Clash: Megumi Hayashibara/Wendee Lee

Reveal: Yuka Imai/Nicole Oliver

Nameless Djinn/Cherish: Mai Takahashi/Avril Lavigne

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Blog #8

Seiko Mikami was my favorite artists presented in class today. I really like that her work is very interactive. This installation, Gravicells, revolves around the effect of gravity on our biological cells.

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Japanese: アナザー Romaji: Anazā Chinese: 替身 English: Another Genre: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller

Staff Directed by: Tsutomu Mizushima Written by: Ryō Higaki Music by: Kow Otani Studio: P.A.Works Licensed by: AUS Hanabee, NA Sentai Filmworks, UK MVM Films Original network: KNB, KBS, Tokyo MX, CTC English network: US Anime Network Original run: January 10, 2012 – March 27, 2012 Episodes: 12 + OVA

Cast Koichi Sakakibara: Atsushi Abe Mei Misaki: Natsumi Takamori Naoya Teshigawara: Tomoaki Maeno Yuuya Mochizuki: Kazutomi Yamamoto Izumi Akazawa: Madoka Yonezawa Tomohiko Kazami: Mitsuhiro Ichiki Yukari Sakuragi: Ai Nonaka Ikuo Takabayashi: Shou Takano Aya Ayano: Mana Hirata Junta Nakao: Kengo Kawanishi Takako Sugiura: Misato Fukuen Daisuke Wakui: Kousuke Kobayashi Yumi Ogura: Iori Nomizu Makoto Ouji: Go Inoue Noboru Saruta: Genki Muro Manabu Maejima: Keisuke Koumoto San Watanabe: Satomi Akesaka Kazue Satou: Yu Shimamura Sayuri Kakinuma: Yoshino Nanjo Yukito Tsujii: Ryota Asari Kenzou Kawahori: Kenichi Mine Matsuko Arita: Shizuka Furuya Reiko Mikami: Naoko Sakakibara Tatsuji Chibiki: Hiroaki Hirata Shouji Kubodera: Kouzou Mito Sanae Mizuno: Seiko Yoshida Katsumi Matsunaga: Shinya Takahashi Inose Mochizuki: Mahiro Inoue Tamie Mikami: Mizuka Arima Ryouhei Mikami: Kouji Yada Yousuke Sakakibara: Takurou Kitagawa Amane: Sayuri Sadaoka Keiko Numata: Rie Takahashi Kensaku Numata: -

Synopsis In 1972, Misaki, a popular student of Yomiyama North Middle School’s class 3-3, suddenly died partway through the school year. Since then, the town of Yomiyama has been shrouded by a fearful atmosphere, from the dark secrets hidden deep within.

In 1998, Kouichi Sakakibara, a 15-year-old student transfers into class 3-3 of Yomiyama North Middle School and soon after discovers that a strange, gloomy mood seems to hang over all the students.

He also finds himself drawn to Mei Misaki, a mysterious and eyepatch-wearing student whom classmates and teacher seemingly ignore her. Paying no heed to warnings from everyone including Mei herself, Kouichi begins to get closer not only to her, but also to the truth behind the gruesome phenomenon plaguing class 3-3 of Yomiyama North Middle School.

This anime follows Kouichi, Mei and their classmates as they are pulled into the enigma surrounding a series of inevitable and tragic events, but unraveling the horror of Yomiyama may just cost them the ultimate price.

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Seiko Mikami: Gravicells / Desire of Codes

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三上晴子：欲望のコード

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Seiko Mikami: Desire of Codes

I’ve just been reading about her exhibition and I really like how she displays the privacy crisis so dramatically. The fact you can walk around an open gallery space and then have your face included into the show in a frightening way just shows the audience how careful we have to be with technology these days. The technology is growing at a rate that privacy and data laws just can’t keep up with.

This subject matter is something I’d really like to play around with. From the earlier visit I made to the Japan house I was influenced by a section of it that takes your face and enters it into the exhibition, but to take that format and to make it into a subject of privacy and data laws could be really interesting.

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