Nov 15th, 2022 – Keiichiro Shibuya performed his android opera at the National Art Center Tokyo for the event “FORWARDISM BMW THE SEVEN Art Museum” presented by BMW. With Keiichiro’s piano and electronics, 40 orchestra and humanoid robots Alter4 played three music at the party.

Setlist
M0. Opening
M1. Scary Beauty
Interval: Speech by Alter4
M2. The Decay of the Angels
Interval: Improvisation between Shibuya’s piano + Alter4
M3. Midnight Swan

Keiichiro Shibuya had a talk and performance during the press conference, and told about his creation by linking the theme “FORWARDISM” defined by BMW.

CREDIT:
Composition, Concept, Direction, Electronics: Keiichiro Shibuya
Vocals: Alter4
Orchestras

Android Programming: Shintaro Imai
Sound: Yuki Suzuki
Lighting: Wataru Kawasaki
Visual: Kotaro Konishi
Stage Manager: Kazuya Kushimoto, So Ozaki
Project/Production Manager: Natsumi Matsumoto

Android – Alter4
Belonging to Osaka University of Arts – Art Science Department
Android and Music Science Laboratory (AMSL)
Design supervised: Hiroshi Ishiguro
Music supervised: Keiichiro Shibuya
Programming: Shintaro Imai
Pedestal design: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Production: ATAK