J-Pop Stars Pump up the World’s Largest Projection Mapping Show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
August 14 2024 - 12:44AM
Business Wire
A meteoric J-pop duo with a huge global following has pitched in
to boost the world’s largest projection mapping show and help
illuminate midsummer nights in Tokyo.
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YOASOBI / Butai ni Tatte (Standing on the
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An artwork, combining YOASOBI’s up-tempo vocal and instrumental
music with a riot of images and colors, made its debut on the TOKYO
Night & Light program on July 26. The nightly show uses the
exterior of the 243-meter-tall Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG)
No. 1 Building as its screen. Three other projections created by
internationally acclaimed artists also joined the menu over the
same weekend.
YOASOBI – female vocalist Ikura, 23, and male singer-songwriter
Ayase, 30 - has contributed the newly composed “Butai ni Tatte
(Standing on the Stage),” which echoes the emotions of athletes
ready for competition. The song has been adopted by Japan’s public
broadcasting corporation NHK as a theme song for its sports
programs, and its first Night & Light presentation was timed to
coincide with the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
For the first screening, a horde of people gathered at the
Citizens’ Plaza at the foot of the 48-story building, a landmark in
the business and entertainment hub of Shinjuku. They watched
animated silhouette images of runners and other athletes romp
around on the wall.
The Night & Light project has lived up to the TMG’s goal of
creating a “new tourism resource to color Tokyo’s nightlife,”
attracting 280,000 visitors in five months since its launch on
February 25. Projected onto an area, 127 meters by 110 meters, the
show has been certified by Guinness World Records™ as the “largest
architectural projection-mapped display (permanent).”
Screened every half an hour between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at
present, the program strings together a few projections for 15
minutes. On weekends and holidays, the series feature crowd pullers
such as the world-famous Japanese movie monster Godzilla and a work
inspired by traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings. “Standing on
the Stage,” 3.5 minutes long, is to be screened every night for the
time being.
Meaning a “night out,” YOASOBI is a global household name five
years after its debut. Its hit “Idol,” the theme tune for the TV
animation “Oshi no Ko,” became the first Japanese song to top
Billboard’s Global (excluding U.S.) chart in June last year. It was
also acknowledged as Japan’s best popular song in terms of
royalties in the year to March 2024.
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