The End
What could a contemporary opera possibly look like? Is it really possible to create one without an actual living actor? The musician Keiichiro SHIBUYA tries to answer these questions, by testing a voice created with a Vocaloid digital sound synthesis software.
Presentation
The End presents a form of digital animism, and a voice capable of singing high-pitched musical notes, beyond human vocal limits. And this voice has a name! Hatsune MIKU is a voicaloid, she is to a singer what the humanoid is to a human being. Her singing was composed from electronic music, and also has synthesis sounds from classical string and wind instruments.
This study is the result of a collaboration between avant-garde actors: a musician, an actor and a director, a video director and an architects’ collective member from New York.
The hero, dressed by Louis Vuitton, has now acquired such a popular reputation that the number of views on her videos online exceeds those on Lady Gaga’s. She moves at the center of incredibly sophisticated image projections that build the story: just like traditional opera, there is here a dramatic framework, arias and a recitative. Except for the fact that there is no human being on stage: from this device is born an exclusive futuristic opera!
In co-production with Radio France and with the participation of France Télévisions, Camera lucida Productions presents in co-realisation with the Théâtre du Chatelet - Direction générale Jean-Luc Choplin and A4A, « The End ».