Wataru IWATA - Life is Beautiful cat# DETUND LTD 45
Life is Beautiful is an acoustic work created by reconstructing the sound generated by the behavior of cells in social simulation with 2D cellular automata. The original work "Life is Beautiful" of interactive media art is a work that looks at cells that repeat life and death through simple activities of taking and giving as human beings, and observe how they form the society. The sound is produced through the activity of the cells. Harmony consists of two major factors. One is related to the numbers of the cell (population), and the other is the amount of the abstract value called "Life" assigned to each cell. The most numerous cell groups determine the scale. In addition, each cell group is assigned a note value, and the average value of the group's Life changes the volume. This album "Life is Beautiful" can also be a co-composition work composed by Cellular Automata and Wataru Iwata.
This album 「Life is Beautiful」 consists of the tracks that are re-edited and
recomposed the sounds generated by those cell activities and Wataru Iwata.
Social simulation based on 2D Cellular Automata
“Life is Beautiful”
Programmed by Hironobu NAKAMURA
Concept by Nobumichi ASAI
Design by Tan JC
Generative music by Wataru IWATA
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All the songs generated and co-composed by
Cell Automaton of the Original Interactive Art Work called “Life is Beautiful” and Wataru IWATA
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credits
released July 15, 2019
The visuals:
1 Convengence of Savage
2 Reboot
3 Nostalgia
Directed by Wataru IWATA
4 The Explosion of Diverseness
5 (The Irrational Relation) Between Universal and Particular
Directed by Koji FURUTA (Media Stream)
Life is Beautifulは、2次元セルオートマトンによる社会シミュレーションのセル（細胞）の振る舞いが生成するサウンドを再構成して制作された音響作品です。元の作品となるインタラクティブメディアアートの「Life is Beautiful」は、奪う/与えるというシンプルな活動を通して生と死を繰り返すセルをヒトに見立て、彼らがどのように社会を形成するのかを観察する作品となっており、サウンドはセルの活動を通して生み出されます。 ハーモニーは大きく2つの主要なファクターから成り立っています。1つはセル（人口）に関連しており、もう1つは一つ一つのセルに割り当てられたLife（生命力）という値の量です。 最も数の多いセルグループが音階を決定します。また、各セルグループには音価が割り当てられており、グループのLifeの平均値が、音量を変化させます。このアルバム「Life is Beautiful」は、セルオートマトンと岩田渉による共同作曲作品ということができるでしょう。
Wataru IWATA is a Japanese composer/Artist/ Director received a classical piano training since the age of 5. Engaged in TV advertising song production from the age of 6.
Started to compose with a multi-track recorder at the age of 9. He also learned Jazz theory at the age of 15.
He spent youth in Boston and NY city and received a shudder from Free Jazz. He studied a painting and art production under Japanese painter, Atsushi Sugimura while he was working as an assistant in NY. After returning to Japan, he has organized painting exhibitions and art installations, performance group to perform, composed music for both commercial and non- commercial, produced multimedia materials, performed Piano trios, quartet, and lecturers at technical school.
Currently, in addition to the piano performance, he also develops a wide range of creative, performances and produces activities in the fields of contemporary, electronic music and media arts. In addition, as a director, he has been actively engaged in transdisciplinary activities such as planning of classical music concerts, writing articles to a science and Literary magazines, planning,
and holding of an international scientific symposium, and curating art exhibitions. www.objet-a.org/wataru_portfolio/
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