AYABIE
MAJOR DEBUT SINGLE「流星」
2011.8.24 on sale

オフィシャルHP:http://www.ayabie.co.jp

TOY'S FACTORYから発売されるメジャー
デビューシングル「流星」。
初回限定盤A/初回限定盤B/通常盤の3種類同時発売。
「流星」のMusic Clipは初回限定盤AのDVDに収録。

「流星」のミュージックビデオを制作したのは、
プログラマ、ロボットエンジニア、数学者、建築家、
Webデザイナー、グラフィックデザイナー、
CGアニメーター、編集者など、さまざまな
ものづくりのスペシャリストから構成されている
ウルトラテクノロジスト集団[チームラボ]。
AYABIEが奏でるオリエンタルな香り漂う
ドラマチックなサウンドと歌世界を[チームラボ]は、
奈良平城遷都1300年の記念映像として制作した
『ICONO-NARASIA』をベースに、月明かりに咲く
蓮の花をモチーフで表現。また飛鳥時代の
「截金(きりがね)」という美術技法を参考にした
表現を用いたり、背景にシルクのテクスチャーを
用いたり、古来から伝わる表現や素材を現代の
テクノロジーを用いるなど、ミュージックビデオという
枠だけにおさまらない作品性のたかい、
AYABIEとチームラボのコラボレーション作品が誕生した。

The full music video of the debut single "Ryusei" by AYABIE is online, ahead of its release!

The producer of this music video is TEAMLAB, an ultra-technologists group made up of specialists such as programmers, robot engineers, mathematicians, architectures, Web designers, graphic designers, CG animators, editors etc.

TEAMLAB's film director, Minoru Terao says, "When I heard the song 'Ryusei,' images of lotus in the taste of 'Mahorobo' film came to my mind." (Mahorobo: a film made for celebrating the 1300th anniversary of Japan's old capital, Nara Heijo-kyo). He discussed the music video with his team and came up with ideas of AYABIE performing in front of an illusionary LED projecting the illusionary lotus stages and transferring the stages with the music regardless of chronological time-line.
The head of TEAMLAB Toshiyuki Inoko further said, "After listening to and meeting AYABIE, I discussed with the film team to create a gorgeous world by developing on 'Kirigane (cut gold leaf)' style. We challenged this new style in our previous work which looks as if the world has been extracted out into animation from art of the Japanese Nara Period (AD 710 to 794) using jewels and seashells."
By basing the film "Mahorobo" and "ICONO-NARASIA," inspired by the 1300 year old culture of the Nara Heijo-kyo, this is how TEAMLAB came to express AYABIE's dramatic sound and song with its oriental tone, with the lotus flowers under the moonlight as its motif. The music video also uses expressions inspired by the art technique "Kirigane" from the Asuka Period (AD 538 to 710), using silk texture in the background. Applying ancient expressions and materials with today's technology, the highly artistic collaboration between AYABIE and TEAMLAB has been accomplished. The CD art work of "Ryusei" was also created by TEAMLAB.

■TEAMLAB(http://www.team-lab.com/)
TEAMLAB is an ultra-technologists group made up of specialists in the information society such as programmers (application programmers, user interface engineers, DB engineers, network engineers), robot engineers, mathematicians, architectures, Web designers, graphic designers, CG animators, editors and so on.
Their main works include the below:
Iza (Sankei digital news blog portal website),
Participation in Milan salone /2007 (art works include "Hanakurenai")
Actface (a concept mobile model created for 'au design project.' Awarded with the recommended work of the judges of the Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Art Festival)
Flower and Corpse /2008 (published at the LES ARTS DECORATIFS, Palais du Louvre , Paris, France)
Suiboku space "Zen" /2008 (awarded the 'ADDA Award' and 2 others)
Space work "Hyakunenumizukan" (published at the Konica Minolta Plaza.)
ICONO-NARASIA /2010 (published for the 1300th anniversary of the establishment of Japan's old capital, Nara)
TEAMLAB HANGER /2010 (published at PUBLIC/IMAGE.3D)
"Floating Instrument" Exhibition /2010 (@btf)
Stage film for "Sward Dance/Shadow Picture" etc. /2011 (from Taichi Saotome's New Years Special Performance "Dragon and Peony")
"Hyakunenumizukan" and "TEAMLAB HANGER" were selected as the recommended work of the judges of the Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Art Festival in 2011.
Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Taipei "Ikiru" /2011.
"Lives live with their own power" /2011 (published at the 54th "Future Pass" Venice Biennale, Hong Kong's art fair "ART HK", and "VOLTA" Basel, Switerland)
The 3D human body anatomical book "TEAMLAB BODY" in 3D motion graphics work /2011.