LEXUS, Milan Design Week (2024)

Date: Tuesday, April 16 – Sunday, April 21, 2024

10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Venue: Artpoint, Art Garden in Superstudio Più
Address Via Tortona, 27 20144 – Milan, Italy

CREDIT
Organizer

Lexus International

At Milan Design Week 2024, LEXUS presented an exhibition titled “BEYOND THE HORIZON,” featuring music composed by Keiichiro Shibuya. The spatial design was crafted by Hideki Yoshimoto, who created a massive screen measuring 4 meters in height and 30 meters in width using Echizen washi, a traditional Japanese paper with over 1,500 years of history. The screen displayed ever-changing lights resembling a horizon, creating a dynamic visual experience.

The exhibition also featured ten interactive sculptures, each approximately 2 meters tall and adorned with washi, with each sculpture exhibiting a unique expression of light.

Keiichiro Shibuya was responsible for the music, creating a new work based on his sound installation piece “Abstract Music,” specifically tailored to fit the concept of the exhibition. The soundscape, generated in real-time by programming from vast sound data, moved fluidly between 31 speakers placed throughout the venue. This created a continuously evolving audio experience, ensuring that no two moments were ever the same.

The combination of the changing horizon from dawn to dusk, the guiding presence of the “LF-ZC” and the ten sculptures, and Shibuya’s “Abstract Music” came together as a unified experience, offering a unique, personal, and immersive journey for every visitor.

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CREDIT
Organizer

Lexus International

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, PRADA MODE, Tokyo (2023)

Date : May 12th, 2023
Venue : Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

CREDIT
Concept, Electronics

Keiichiro Shibuya

Vocal

Alte4

Android Programming

Shintaro Imai

Sound Engineer

Yuki Suzuki

Stage & Technical Manager

So Ozaki

Production

Natsumi Matsumoto

On May 12th and 13th, “PRADA MODE Tokyo” was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum – Japanese Garden. Architect Kazuyo Sejima curated the cultural program, with Keiichiro Shibuya participating. On the 12th, a sound installation was presented in the Japanese garden, along with a performance using the Prophet-5. The garden was dotted with 24 speakers, from which sound files were programmed to play with randomized parameters such as pitch and position. This created a unique, site-specific soundscape that can only be experienced at that moment.

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CREDIT
Concept, Electronics

Keiichiro Shibuya

Vocal

Alte4

Android Programming

Shintaro Imai

Sound Engineer

Yuki Suzuki

Stage & Technical Manager

So Ozaki

Production

Natsumi Matsumoto