On December 16th, there will be a concert titled "MUSIC PLAYS IMAGES x IMAGES PLAY MUSIC" at Art Tower Mito in Ibaragi prefecture.@With two artist s, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshio Iwai using a piano and computers, a new generation of visual and sound will be performed. The performance will be broadcasted live on the Internet by a support of Internet World Expo'96(How to watch the broadcast). Other than the usual live broadcast, there will be a MIDI transmission of Ryuichi Sakamoto's performance via Internet to a MIDI piano on the remote end, and a remote control of MIDI piano in Art Tower Mito by users on the Internet. [ PLAY THE PIANO OVER THE INTERNET ]

At International Academy of Media Arts and Science in Gifu prefecture, the performance at Art Tower Mito could be heard through a MIDI piano. (http://www.iamas.ac.jp/iamas1216/index.html)
Also at Keio University Shounan Fujisawa Campus, the live performance will be projected on to a 200 inch screen.

This broadcast is delivered to our partnership countries via WIDE Project's AI3 satellite backbone network.


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for more information:1216@expo96.ad.jp