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Hatsune Miku (Miku Hatsune). Hatsune Miku; es un banco de voz compatible con varias versiones del software Vocaloid. Su imagen es considerada como una de las más famosas. Hay dos virtuales japonesas y está desarrollada por al compañía... more
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      Hatsune MikuVocaloidsPharrellVocaloid
Over the past decade the voice synthesiser Vocaloid has gained great popularity in Japan. Critics debate on whether Vocaloid can be called a new musical instrument and if its creation marks a new era in (Japanese) popular music. The... more
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      PerceptionAvatarHatsune MikuVocaloid
Vocaloids are virtual Japanese pop stars who exist as computer-generated voices and three-dimensional projections. Their animé aesthetic involves exaggerated and sexualised notions of childhood, girlhood and female sexuality. The... more
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      Music TechnologySociology of Children and ChildhoodJapanese AnimeIdentity (Culture)
A presente monografia consiste em um estudo sobre a evolução de Hatsune Miku como uma estrela pop, uma marca e uma fonte de entretenimento. O trabalho realiza, em um primeiro momento, uma conceituação sobre a indústria cultural e a... more
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      Japanese StudiesJapanese Language And CultureCybercultureJapan
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      SemioticsPerformance StudiesPerformativityVoice
Hatsune Miku is a Japanese virtual idol born as avatar for the cutting-edge voice synthesizer Vocaloid. Since her debut in 2007, Miku became a hub for rhizomatic " produsage " , relying upon feedback operations amongst software, network... more
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      Japanese StudiesCollaborationJapanese ArtFan Studies
This independently published text was published as a special, limited edition of Department of Public Sound #2 (booklet) and includes a vinyl record with recordings of ‘The Weekend of Adventure’ during the sixth edition of the Opera Days... more
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      SemioticsCultural StudiesMusicMusicology
Abstract for paper delivered at the Music and Screen Media Conference held at the University of Liverpool, 25 June 2014.
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      VocaloidsMusic and VirtualityVocaloidImage Construction
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      Hatsune MikuVocaloid
In 2020, hyperpop artist Ashnikko released a remix of her single "Daisy" with virtual idol Hatsune Miku. While the rights to any commercial use of Miku's voice and likeness are owned by Crypton Future Media, anyone with Vocaloid software... more
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      PosthumanismYoutubeVocaloid
In 1930, the critic Paul Bernhard wrote that “all music is mechanical, with the sole exception for singing. All music is made mechanically; only the voice box is organic.” Such beliefs notwithstanding, attempts to simulate or synthesize... more
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      MusicologyMedia ArchaeologyKeyboard InstrumentsVoice
Synthesized voices have become part of our daily experiences. From car navigation systems to the text-to-speech function of Google Translate, machines are all too able and willing to "speak" to us. The idea of machines that "speak" or... more
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      MusicologyMedia ArchaeologyKeyboard InstrumentsBell Labs
Call for Paper for the International Conference : “Desired Identities. New Technology-based Metamorphosis in Japan” to be hosted by the Museum of Quai Branly (Paris) on April 29 and 30, 2020. This conference is organized by the... more
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      Japanese StudiesDigital HumanitiesVirtual WorldsGamification
I drew this short comic for the 3rd issue of the feminist zine Your Mouth Is A Guillotine, dedicated to the theme "The personal is political". It focuses on Hastune Miku, Japan's digital diva, and her revolutionary aspect of massive... more
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      Japanese StudiesCollaborationCollaborative Virtual EnvironmentsJapan
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      SemioticsBlack Studies Or African American StudiesAnthropologyEducation
"VOCALOID Opera AOI with Bunraku Puppets" is a 30 minute-length opera film in which real Bunraku puppets and puppeteers perform with the songs of VOCALOID (the singing voice synthesis software developed by Yamaha Corporation) created... more
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      Japanese StudiesMusicAnthropologyPopular Music
A trial of matrix description of Racing Miku figurines.
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      FictionalityIdentityFigurinesMatrix
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      Theatre StudiesFilm StudiesJapanese TheatreBunraku
Hatsune Miku – que significa “primeiro som do futuro” –, é o mais popular avatar humanoide do sintetizador vocal VOCALOID. Sob a sua égide, têm-se desenvolvido, na subcultura japonesa otaku (nerd ou geek), práticas de colaboração massiva... more
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      Japanese StudiesJapanese Popular CultureJapanese Popular MusicOtaku culture
This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of virtual idols in various media, with the aid of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations, The Vital Illusion and Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle constituting... more
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      Science Fiction and FantasyVirtual WorldsWilliam GibsonAnime
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      Digital CultureLive MusicThe uncannyTupac Shakur
This article addresses the enduring cultural appeal of the analogue record at the time of the digital revolution in music consumption and production. Our interest in this phenomenon stems from the observation that not only did the vinyl... more
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      SemioticsCultural HistoryCultural StudiesMedia Sociology
Abstract Vocaloid is a vocal synthesis software package that "sings back" any pitch and word combination entered by a user, impersonating a singer with a designated sex, age and race. Lola and Leon, the first pair of... more
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      SemioticsPerformance StudiesPerformativityVoice