アンビエントミュージックの先駆者として知られるブライアン・イーノ氏。その彼が、グラミー賞にもノミネートされた2012年作品『LUX』以来となるソロ・アルバム『The Ship』を発表し、Dentsu Lab Tokyoがそのミュージックビデオの制作を担当。楽曲制作にあたり、ブライアン・イーノ氏はテーマを「歴史を通じて繰り返される人類の野心とパラノイア」と語る。プロジェクト実施にあたり、一つの固定の映像を制作するのではなく、映像体験をジェネレートし続ける「ソフトウェア」を制作した。具体的には、深層学習を行う機械知能を構築。過去1世紀超の人類の歴史上の出来事の写真を学習させた機械知能に、現代の様々なニュースサイトからの画像を閲覧させ、現代の事象から過去を想起し続ける映像を生成する。生成される映像は、アクセスする時期によっても常に変化。総体的に人類の記憶を持ったといえる機械知能が現代をみたとき、何を思い出すのか?その解釈は見る人に委ねられる。
Brian Eno is know as the harbinger of ambient music genre. Since the relase of “LUX” which as nominated for the grammy awards in 2012, he has released his new solo album “The Ship.” Dentsu Lab Tokyo joined to collaborate on producing the music video. Upon composing “The Ship” Brian Eno stated the underlying concept of this score as “Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we’re permanently and increasingly under threat.” As Dentsu Lab Tokyo approached on this project, instead of producing a music video with a “fixed” video, the team focused on developing a “software” which generates the video itself. More specifically, the team developed a machine intelligence, which utilizes deep learning. The machine intelligence is equipped with various image archives of events which mankind has experienced. Then, the machine intelligence is provided with images from the present society, and “recollects” the previous memories of the past which the machine intelligence has learned, and uses those images to generate a video experience which changes constantly. The video experience differs based on when the viewers access the website. How will this machine intelligence, equipped with a collective memories of mankind, associate the present society with the past? The answer relies within the interpretation of the viewers.
2016/9/15
BEATINK / WARPRECORDS
The Ship