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HYPER VOCALOID Live and Talk Show!! Yuzuki Yukari x Ishiguro Chihiro x EHAMIC

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Live VOCALOID Stage Event to be Held in London

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Yuzuki Yukari, a VOCALOID with broad appeal.

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Many VOCALOID producers have found themselves captivated by Yuzuki Yukari’s clear voice. With recent developments such as Avex’s March 2014 release of her commercial album Tsuki no Hibiki, she is the mostly hotly talked-about up-and-coming VOCALOID.

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Ishiguro Chihiro, who provided Yuzuki Yukari’s voice.
The multi-talented Ishiguro Chihiro not only works as a voice actor for anime and video games, but is also a gothic lolita fashion model and live performer.

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EHAMIC, a leading-edge VOCALOID producer.
EHAMIC is a musician active in many fields. In addition to VOCALOID, he also has recently provided songs for artists such as the idol unit Sakura Gakuin.

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These two artists and one voice will come together for the very first time at HYPER JAPAN. There, ambitious performances such as a duet between Yuzuki Yukari and Ishiguro Chihiro will be held. Plans also exist to unveil a new song specially written for HYPER JAPAN. Please don’t miss this thirty-minute stage performance packed full of what makes VOCALOID so great!

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Chihiro Ishiguro

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A message from Chihiro:

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Good day, and nice to meet you.

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My name is Chihiro Ishiguro, and I am a voice actress from Japan.
I’m very happy that I will be able to come to HYPER JAPAN, an overseas Japanese culture event. There, I will be performing together with the VOCALOID Yuzuki Yukari and the popular Japanese VOCALOID producer EHAMIC. It will be my first time doing anything like this, and I hope you all enjoy it. I look forward to meeting everyone there!

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Profile

Voice actress (Office Anemone)

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Voice roles include:

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VOCALOID3, text-to-speech software VOICEROID+: Yuzuki Yukari

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CONCEPTION II: Feene

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Idol-rism: Suzuka Osaragi

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Ishiguro has also appeared in the Brilliant Star Decorations stage show, worked as a gothic lolita fashion model, and appeared in various events such as Chihiro’s Garden and Game Garden.

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EHAMIC

A message from EHAMIC:

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I’m very honored to have the chance to introduce VOCALOID to all of you in London!

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VOCALOID is a part of recent Japanese culture, and I’d like to show everyone what exactly it is through my on-stage performance. I hope you come by to see and learn about this new culture.

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Profile

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Born in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Librarian and singer-songwriter.

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Known as an artist in part for his unconventional methods of expression, such as creating LP records that use the VOCALOID voice synthesis software.

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EHAMIC began appearing in the media after being featured in the Japanese “Google Chrome x Hatsune Miku” advertisement and creating an image song for the LAWSON convenience store chain. In addition to being an artist, he is also known as an author and media personality. He also creates songs for other artists, and his delicate yet bold songs feature a fusion of the analog and the digital.

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Yuzuki Yukari

Yuzuki Yukari is a VOCALOID audio library released by AHS under the supervision of the creators’ group VOCALOMAKETS.
“VOICEROID” speech synthesis software of Yuzuki Yukari was simultaneously released in addition to the singing VOCALOID software.

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VOCALOID is a registered trademark of Yamaha Corporation.

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VOCALOID is a singing synthesis software and its technology of Yamaha Corporation.

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©2014 office-anemone

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©2014 EHAMIC

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©VOCALOMAKETS

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©AHS

ASOBISYSTEM confirm new guests for HYPER KAWAii!!

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We can now confirm the list of ASOBISYSTEM models and artists who’ll be attending as part of HYPER KAWAii!! this summer! As well as returning HYPER JAPAN favourite Yun*chi, Anime & Manga fans in particular may recognise Nagi Yanagi as the singer of several theme songs, such as the endings for Jormungand and Black Bullet.

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Nagi Yanagi

Ayumi Seto

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Anna Yano

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Kozue Ozawa

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HYPER JAPAN 2014 Presents: AOI Project’s VOCALOID™ Bunraku Puppet Opera!

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Opera AOI

Bunraku puppets dance to VOCALOID singing!

A new Opera style in which new technologies and traditional Japanese arts meet has its world premiere at Hyper Japan 2014!

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VOCALOID™ Opera AOI with Bunraku Puppets

*VOCALOID is a registered trademark of Yamaha Corporation.
*VOCALOID is singing synthesis software and a technology of Yamaha Corporation.

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A 30 minute-length opera film, in which you will see no human beings acting. VOCALOID provides all the songs for the play. VOCALOID is a singing voice synthesis technology and the name of the application software based on that technology. All the actresses in the play are Bunraku puppets. Bunraku is one of Japan’s traditional performing arts with 300 years of history, designated a World Intangible Heritage by UNESCO. The trinity of lifelike puppet play, songs from VOCALOID and techno music using Japanese traditional musical instruments illustrates the deep complexity of the human psyche.

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VOCALOID can sing beyond human vocal range and therefore its voice sometimes sounds otherworldly, while Bunraku puppets can act beyond the limits of human actions. Opera AOI is a collaboration of VOCALOID and Bunraku puppets which nobody has ever seen, even in Japan.

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The Story of “Opera AOI”

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The chapter “Aoi” is from the famous work of Japanese literature “Genji monogatari” (The Tale of Genji) that is sometimes called the world’s first novel and has been arranged in a contemporary style.
It depicts the strange things which happen to Aoi, a star singer who closely works with Hikaru, a popular musical composer. One day Aoi’s manager receives a call that Aoi has been involved in an accident and hurries up to the hospital. What she sees in Aoi’s patient room is a psychiatrist, and Aoi apparently possessed by the spirit of Midori. Midori is a VOCALOID character who had once taken the world by storm but had then been forgotten by Hikaru and the world.

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Is she really possessed by Midori or is it Aoi herself tormented by her conflicting mind?

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* The word “Midori” can mean Green（緑） or Blue（碧) in Japanese.

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What is VOCALOID™ ?

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VOCALOID is a technology for singing voice synthesis developed by Yamaha, and the name of the application software based on it. The software allows users to input melody and lyrics in order to synthesize singing. In other words, with this technology, singing can be produced without a singer. Singing voice synthesis is produced by using fragments of voices recorded from actual singers, called the Singer Library.
In “Opera AOI”, three VOCALOID libraries; Yamaha’s“VY1V3”, AHS’s “Nekomura Iroha”, and “Yuzuki Yukari” have been used to create an enchanting mood.

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What are Bunraku Puppets?

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Bunraku is one of Japan’s representative traditional performing arts, designated a World Intangible Heritage by UNESCO in 2003. It is a trinity of narrative recitation (Tayu), shamisen (shamisen; three-stringed Japanese musical instrument) music and Bunraku puppets in performance. The origins of present-day Bunraku date back to the seventeenth century, when older puppet shows (ayatsuri ningyo) were integrated with the medieval narratives (joururi) and called ningyo joururi, “puppet narrative”. It affected the development of Kabuki, another representative Japanese traditional performance art.

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Opera AOI uses 3 Bunraku puppets and puppet players for them. Those puppets are dressed in modern haute couture dresses. For more details of Bunraku Ningyo Joururi, please refer to the following website.

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Further Information

｜Information About AOI (Please visit the official website for more information.)
・ Widescreen / 2K / Approx. 30 Mins.
・ Movie Director / Editor / Background Visuals: Shin Kano (Star Gate Co. Ltd. )
・ Libretto / Music / Theater direction / Stage Design: Hiroshi Tamawari (Tamawari Musical Office)
・ Cast: Kousuke Yoshida, Kanichi Yoshida, Monhide Kiritake, Tamase Yoshida, Kanjirou Kiritake (BUNRAKU-KYOKAI)
・ Supported by : AHS Co.Ltd.
・ Equipment Assistance: Blackmagic Design, KYOEISHA Co.Ltd

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｜Opera AOI Official Website
http://www.opera-aoi.com/
* A trailer for this work can be found on this page.

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http://www.bunraku.or.jp/about/pdf/english.pdf