DOMMUNE is launching a project to support the disability of Nakahara Masaya, a Mishima Prize-winning author and noise musician who suffered a cerebral infarction as a complication of diabetes, resulting in significant loss of physical function and vision, and now lives in a wheelchair. The project is titled “AI Nakahara Masaya! Drawing Novels with Vocal Cords!” We will build a knowledge base using all of Nakahara’s texts—novels, autobiographies, critiques—as source material and expand it using RAG. We will also clone Nakahara’s own voiceprint to create “Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara.” Produce a project where the <flesh-and-blood Masaya Nakahara> engages in repeated dialogue with his digital twin, the <Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara>, to co-create a new novel via “SPEECH TO SPEECH” and aim for the Akutagawa Prize!! At DIG SHIBUYA, an installation featuring the vocal cord AI will be held, along with workshops where audiences “draw” the novel alongside AI Masaya Nakahara and visualize it into film alongside AI Naohiro Ukawa.
<Sunday, February 15th, 15:00-23:00 Shibuya PARCO 10F PBOX>
■15:00-18:00 DOMMUNE “Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara” Installation & Workshop
A workshop in which the audience will “draw” a novel together with AI Nakahara Masaya, and then turn that novel into a film together with AI Ukawa Naohiro.
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■18:00-21:00 [Vocal Cord AI Summit DAY4 TALK] DRAWING A NOVEL WITH VOCAL CORDS!!
<TALK6>18:00-20:00
● Featuring: Naohiro Ukawa (DOMMUNE), Shinji Miyadai (sociologist), and Dars Raider (rapper/critic)
<TALK7>20:00-21:00
● Featuring: Masaya Nakahara x Melon Uminekozawa (novelist) with Konel Taichi Iwamoto, Jun Taniguchi ● MC: Naohiro Ukawa
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●21:00-23:00 [Vocal Cord AI Summit DAY4 FINAL LIVE]
<LIVE Session1>21:00-21:45「LIVE RE-EDIT:HAIR STYLISTICS」
●LIVE: Masaya Nakahara x Hisashi Saito
<LIVE Session 2> 21:45-22:00 “Diabetes Wasshoi”
●LIVE: Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara x Humanoid, Masaya Nakahara x Keiichi Sogabe x Naruyoshi Kikuchi
<DJ SET2> 22:00-23:00 “DJ Plays Masaya Nakahara ONLY|Chapter 2”
●DJ: Keiji Yamabe (LOS APSON?)
Overview
- Date / Time
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2/15(Sun)
●Installation 15:00-18:00 ●Talk & Live Event 18:00-23:00
*Program details for February 13 and 14 can be found here. - Venue
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Shibuya PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE (2/13, 2/14)
10F PBOX (2/15 only)
Venue
- SHIBUYA PARCO 10F PBOX
- 10F 15-1 Udagawa-Cho Shibuya-ku Tokyo
プロフィール
- DOMMUNE Co., Ltd.
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Japan’s first live streaming studio, launched by Naohiro Ukawa in 2010. For 15 years since, it has continued exploring new forms of cultural expression, traversing fine art, popular culture, and technology. For this project, it collaborates with diverse masters including Konel, the editorial department of Kawade Shobo’s “Bungei” magazine, Taniguchi Sukesuke Club, ANOMALY, and boid to develop an AI project supporting Masaya Nakahara’s creative work. It participates as an experimental ART×TECH collective unique to DIG SHIBUYA.
https://www.dommune.com/