Making the Ayumi x Lo-Fi collaboration video with the MV1

How did we film this live-painting video collaboration with Ayumi?

We used the Sony MV1 recorder of course, but also put a lot of camera tools to use to get the sounds and angles that we wanted to create this piece.

The band performance was one part of the filming that we really wanted to get a "live" sound with the reverbs and environmental noise of the live painting setting.

With the MV1 we were able to capture all of this at once and it really helped bring the painting sounds to the forefront!



We hope you enjoy this video and share it along with our other videos!









Here is the Lo-Fi original music video with the MV1 as well....!

Ayumi x Lo-Fi x Sony collaboration!

So the long awaited new music video is finally here!

やっとビデオがリリースされました！

It's a collaboration between our band and painter Ayumi.

She's a unique painter in Japan that mixes street art styles with stained glass and acrylic paints to create a mishmash of different tastes with a uniting theme linked to emotions.

Like music it captures a feeling that we have like a record of our emotional past.

We tried putting the painting and music together to a high degree by recording the painting sounds themselves as an instrument. This was made possible by using the Sony HDRMV1 camera to film and record at the same time.

All the footage you see in our clip is from the MV1, same goes for the sound!
NOTHING was recorded on another recording device...!

The story of this video is about being isolated and alone, but by creating something, it brings people together.

will bring you more details later!

 

 

今回の映像はAyumiと一緒にコラボレーションをしました！

全ての映像と音は実際の絵を描きあげる過程で発生する音とLo-Fiの楽曲を合わせて曲にしました。

実際ライブペインティングのイベントをやる形で過程を映像にできて面白い作品になったと思うのでチェックしてください。全ての映像と音は全部 SONY MV1で撮影しております。

 

Brainstorming

(English below the text in Japanese)

先日はいま制作を始めたばかりのビデオのミーティングをした。







アイディアを出して話すをするにも、言葉で映像や音の話は難しい。


いい点も悪い点も色々とあるけど、YouTube をはじめとする色んな映像を簡単に探して直ぐに共有できるのは便利だ


でも、結局頭の中にしかない物は上手く工夫して、例えを使って伝えてかいくしかない。


人とコミュニケーション取る時にいつも誰もが悩むことだけど、「本当に伝わってるのかな」と


実際のところ信じるしかなくて確認のしようがない。


アートは抽象的だからそのブレ幅がまた凄い 笑



システム開発とかのプロジェクトだったら、まぁ、「崩壊」している要件定義であっても、作品を作る時は「面白さ」だったりもする。



ま、「技術による」誤差や「人間による」理由で発生した誤差もアートだとかなり楽しめる。


今回の作品はメンバー間での駆け引きがどんな風になるのか非常に楽しみだ。

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The other day we gathered to do some brainstorming for putting together our new song/video


It's always crazy trying to communicate your ideas and your visual images out into the world.

That's what art is right?

sharing ideas and expressing them is easier when you've got tons of sample images posted in YouTube to compare with. All this multimedia tool around you is confusing sometimes but a blessing at times.

I never really know how the message I've relayed is understood by the person(s) I'm communicating to.

I guess that'll always be the case.

This discrepancy is always doe thing to be enjoyed when creating creative projects (which should be all projects in the world)

but it's too bad that many people perceive a small difference of interpretation as wrong

I guess there's too much room in art for that and makes people afraid


5 (Bass/Vocals of Lo-Fi)

そういえば、、、色々とビデオはあります！ I forgot to mention we've got some more videos!

最近新しいミュージックビデオをリリースしたばかりだけど、YouTubeでなんこか他の映像も出している。
結構ライブで思いっきり演奏していて楽しい曲もあります：
Here are some videos other than our new music video release. If you haven't seen them on YouTube yet, please check them out and let people know about them!
この曲はNoriがソロしている部分をフィーチャーしたビデオ！ライブは野外のForest Jamで演奏した時のライブです。
This one we got Nori soloing over our song Higher from the original Stereo Soul album at the Forest Jam outdoor festival



このRealizeではYoshのクレイジードラムが沢山聞けるアレンジです！いやーライブのジャムは最高に楽しいね！
Check out the crazy drumming by Yoshi on this version of Realize!


このビデオは名古屋にツアーで来た時の映像！ライブではシンバルが落ちたり色々ありましたが、、、！
This video is from our tour in Nagoya when we released Stereo Soul. Cymbal fell off during the performance….LOL


最後にもちろん今一押しのミュージックビデオも！
And last but not least… Here's Departure…!