It must be sharp, high pitched and harmless like the voices heard in call centers or advertisements, “explains the artist. “It was this process of disincarnation of a human voice and reincarnation in the form of a virtual popstar that interested me, and beyond the conception of the female voice in Japan. Hatsune Miku, the one who became a virtual pop star was at the beginning only the digital incarnation of a synthetic voice elaborated from the voice of a Japanese actress of dubbing. What is the reason they had such a large number of recorded notes?”it’s because any person can send them a note to sing.” Hatsune Miku Text-to-speech softwareĪccording to Japanese dictionary, the meaning of “ Hatsune Miku” is “future’s 1 st sound”. ” Her existence is dependent on her fan community, ” says Mari Matsutoya. Entitled Still Be Here, the performance confronts the strangeness of this disembodied show with the testimonies of the designers of Hatsune Miku and its fans, questioning the cult that has been built around this virtual personality. Summoned by the Japanese and Berlin sound artist Mari Matsutoya, the singer performs some of her kitsch hymns with millimeter choreographies. On the stage of the auditorium of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the extravagant building in the shape of a “pregnant oyster”, as the Berliners call it, which annually hosts the festival dedicated to Transmediale digital arts and cultures and its musical counterpart CTM, Hatsune Miku appears to the public in the form of a hologram.
Hatsune Miku has large eyes missing from the heroines of manga, sharp legs, endless turquoise quilts, and a costume inspired by those worn by Japanese schoolgirls. Hatsune Miku was one of the most anticipated guests of the 29th edition of the Transmediale. The virtual singer Hatsune Miku is one of the most delusional internet phenomena in Japan: Hatsune Miku’s career is now entirely in the hands of her vast community of fans, who produces her content and helps make it even more famous. Hatsune Miku, the popstar with 100,000 songs who didn’t existĪt just 16 years old, Hatsune Miku has more than 100,000 songs to her name and fills the stadiums.
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