Vaundy, YOASOBI, sheep literature, BABYMONSTER, Creepy Nuts, Kensuke Ushio
https://www.sonypark.com/sonyparkten2025/ #SonyPark Exhibition 2025
Ginza Sony Park will have its grand opening on Sunday, January 26, 2025, and as its first program, it will host creative events with six unique artists on the theme of six Sony Group businesses. Sony Park Exhibition 2025 will be a hands-on program that will be held for the second time. In addition to YOASOBI and Creepy Nuts, Vaundy, Hitsuji Bungaku, BABYMONSTER, and Kensuke Ushio have been confirmed to participate! "Music is a journey. You can experience original programs unique to Ginza Sony Park, created especially for this occasion, based on six playful themes such as "Movies are a Forest" and "Movies are a Forest," and inspired by the music of each artist.
The Sony Park Exhibition is a unique exhibition that combines the creativity of six artists with Sony's technology, focusing on six diverse fields that Sony is involved in: music, semiconductors, finance, games, entertainment technology, and movies. This is an experiential program. It was held in Ginza in 2021 and in Kyoto in 2022 and was very well received. It is one of the representative activities of Ginza Sony Park. The Sony Park Exhibition 2025 will be held in a rotating format with Part 1 running from January 26th to March 30th, and Part 2 running from April 20th (Sun) to June 22nd (Sun). Masu.
The themes of Part 1, which begins on Sunday, January 26th, are "Music is a journey," "Semiconductors are science fiction," and "Finance is poetry."
"Music is a journey." is a musical experience created together with Vaundy that takes you on a journey through the strata of music. Vaundy has selected about 200 songs based on the theme of "The ambiguous strata of my heart." These songs In the space of the "Music Strata" created by the accumulation of music, visitors can go searching for music with headphones in hand, and discover music that transcends the boundaries of genres and eras, curated by Vaundy. You can enjoy a special "musical stratum."
"Semiconductors are science fiction." will create a musical experience in which visitors can take part in the world of "HEART BEAT," the theme song for NHK General TV's "YOASOBI 18 Festival." The theme of the event is "heartbeats," and by sensing the heartbeats of visitors and creating a "heartbeat object" for each visitor, the "HEART BEAT" music will resonate with the visitor's heartbeat object, creating a special atmosphere. You can enjoy the music experience. There will also be a special feature where the heartbeat objects of Ayase and ikura from YOASOBI will appear.
"Finance is Poetry" is a musical experience that focuses on Hitsuji Bungaku's lyrics. In a space with a large water basin, the music and lyrics created by Hitsuji Bungaku are combined with water and light to create a We will create a special musical experience that will immerse you in the world of the song. Along with the narration by Moeka Shiotsuka (vocals and guitar), you can enjoy an experience filled with sound, lyrics, water and light.
Part 2, scheduled to start on April 20th (Sun), will have themes of "Games are a social gathering," "Entertainment technology is the street," and "Movies are the forest," and will feature BABYMONSTER, You can enjoy a creative experiential program created together with Creepy Nuts and Kensuke Ushio.
Admission to this exhibition is free, but reservations are required in advance and can be made through the official "Sony Park Exhibition 2025" website. Please look forward to additional information in the future!
"Music is a journey." / with Vaundy
Vaundy's program, which has the theme "Music is a journey," will feature a "Musical Strata" space curated by Vaundy on the second basement floor of Ginza Sony Park.
Vaundy has selected about 200 songs based on the theme of "The Ambiguous Strata of My Heart." These songs are piled up in a space called "Musical Strata," and visitors can enjoy excavating them with headphones in hand. By searching for music in this way, you can enjoy a musical experience that feels like traveling through a geological space of music, layered across the boundaries of musical genres and eras.
"Semiconductors are science fiction." / with YOASOBI
The YOASOBI program, which has the theme of "Semiconductors are science fiction," will feature a special performance called "HEART BEAT: Resonance," which will use the song "HEART BEAT," the theme song for the NHK General TV program "YOASOBI 18 Festival." It is a participatory music experience.
The theme of this song is "heartbeats," and messages, texts, and performance videos were collected from 18-year-olds across the country. Based on these thoughts, the original was written and created with the help of 1,000 18-year-olds, creating a song full of energy. A message song. It is a participatory experience for visitors, inspired by the fact that the song was recorded singing together at an event attended by 1,000 18-year-olds.
The theme of the song is "heartbeats," and by sensing the heartbeats of visitors and creating a "heartbeat object" for each visitor, YOASOBI will create a special piece of music in which the visitor's heartbeat object resonates with YOASOBI. You can enjoy the experience. In addition, the heartbeat objects of Ayase and ikura from YOASOBI will appear, and the "Haptic Floor" (※1) on the floor will vibrate by sensing the movements of the visitors and the "heartbeat object." There are also some special features, such as the ability to play heart sounds on your smartphone.
"Finance is poetry." / with Hitsuji Bungaku In the Hitsuji Bungaku program, which has the theme "Finance is poetry," a tranquil space with a large water basin in the center is set up at Ginza Sony Park 4 The main program, "Floating Words," focuses on Hitsuji Bungaku's lyrics, and the music and lyrics created by Hitsuji Bungaku are fused with water and light to create a special musical experience that allows the viewer to enter the world of the music. It's an experience.
Visitors will be drawn into the world of the song by the ephemeral yet beautiful visuals in which Hitsuji Kagaku's words float up and then dissolve, and by the voice of Shiotsuka Moeka, recorded specially for this program. In a space filled with Hitsuji Bungaku's songs "More Than Words" and "Hikaru Toki," enjoy a literary program in which the rippling surface of the water shows various expressions and the music and words of Hitsuji Bungaku float along.
In addition, by using the "Active Slate" (※2), which utilizes Sony's haptic technology, you can walk on the floor while immersed in the afterglow of "Floating Words," and experience the sensation of walking along the water's edge. .
Main program: "Floating Words"
Performance songs: Hitsuji Bungaku "More Than Words" and "When It Shines"
Narration: Moeka Shiotsuka (Yoh Bungaku)
*1 Haptics tactile presentation technology "Haptic Floor"
Using only vibration feedback from the floor, this technology utilizes the signal processing technology and know-how that Sony has cultivated over the years to deliver delicate, highly realistic sensations to the entire body.
*2 "Active Slate" equipped with haptics tactile presentation technology
This technology provides a variety of vibration feedback in response to a person's walking, adding interactivity to the Haptic Floor and making it feel as if the floor has transformed into a puddle or a sandy beach.
More details here:
https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/research/projects/haptics/
■ “Sony Park Exhibition 2025” Overview
Name: Sony Park Exhibition 2025
Date: January 26, 2025 (Sun)
Part 1: January 26th (Sun) to March 30th (Sun) 2025 11:00-19:00 (scheduled)
・Music is a journey. / with Vaundy
・Semiconductors are science fiction. / with YOASOBI
・Finance is poetry. / with Hitsuji Bungaku
Part 2: April 20th (Sun) to June 22nd (Sun) 2025 11:00-19:00 (scheduled)
・Games are a social gathering. /with BABYMONSTER
・Entertainment Technology is the Streets / with Creepy Nuts
・The movie is a forest / with Kensuke Ushio
Location: Ginza Sony Park
Admission fee: Free *Advance reservations required.
Please check the website for details on reservation precautions and Haptics usage restrictions and precautions.
Web: https://www.sonypark.com/sonyparkten2025/
SNS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginzasonypark/
Hashtag: #SonyParkExhibition2025
■ Participating Artist Profiles
Vaundy/Music
Web: https://vaundy.jp/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vaundy_engawa/
X: https://x.com/vaundy_engawa
YOASOBI/Semiconductors
Web: https://www.yoasobi-music.jp/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoasobi_staff_/
X: https://x.com/YOASOBI_staff
Hitsuji Bungaku/Finance
Web: https://www.hitsujibungaku.info/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hitsujibungaku/
X: https://x.com/hitsujibungaku
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hitsujibungaku_official
BABYMONSTER
Web: https://yg-babymonster-official.jp/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babymonster_ygofficial/
X: https://x.com/_BABYMONSTER_JP
Creepy Nuts
Web: https://creepynuts.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creepynuts_official
X: https://x.com/Creepy_Nuts_
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@creepy_nuts_
Kensuke Ushio
Web: https://www.agraph.jp/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agraph/
X： https://x.com/agraph
■ About the Ginza Sony Park Project
The Ginza Sony Park project is a project to rebuild the Sony Building, which has been a part of the Ginza area for over 50 years, with the concept of "a facility open to the city."
The Sony Building was built in 1966 by Akio Morita, one of the founders of Sony.
There was a 33-square-meter public space there that was a symbol of "a facility open to the town" and that Morita called "Ginza Garden." We will continue to follow the founder's example as we look toward the next 50 years. In order to carry on this tradition, we expanded the "Ginza Garden" into a "Ginza Park," creating a new rhythm in the Ginza area, making it more accessible to visitors and offering a variety of ways to enjoy the area. We have been working on a project to achieve this.
In order to keep the rebuilding process unique and Sony-like, a two-stage process was adopted. In the first stage, a new building was not built immediately, but instead the old building was demolished (August 2018). This was an unprecedented experimental attempt to turn the entire park (2020-2021) into a park. As a result, over the course of about three years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a total of 8.54 million people visited the park.
After that, demolition and new construction will resume as the second phase, with the final form of the project, Ginza Sony Park, scheduled for completion in August 2024, with its grand opening on Sunday, January 26, 2025.
Sony Park official website and social media accounts
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