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Rhythmism is an entertainment system which uses original maraca based devices and manipulates in real-timethe moving pictures like Visual Jocky. Focusing on the structural characteristics and the operating characteristics of maracas, every user can enjoy VJ performance intuitively and physically. Ryhthmism utilizes two different maracas; material maraca and effect maraca. After inserting material balls into a material maraca, the user can control the playing speed of the motion graphics data by shaking the maraca and can switch the current data by rotating the maraca. On the other hand, the user can control each parameter of the inserted visual effect ball by shaking the effect maraca and switch the current visual effect by rotating it.

Satoru Tokuhisa:Concept / Design / Programming
Yukinari Iwata:Body Design / Direction of Demo Video

Demo


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Publication

Satoru Tokuhisa, Yukinari Iwata and Masa Inakage.
rhythmism: A VJ Performance System with Maracas based Devices
ACE 2007, Salzburg, Austria, 13-15 June, 2007.
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Exhibition

2006[10th]Japan Media Art Festival Entertainment Division Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 24 Febrary - 4 March, 2007.

Invited Talk

Satoru Tokuhisa.
rhythmism
File 2007 Symposium, Sao Paulo, 13-17 August, 2007.

Award

2006[10th]Japan Media Art Festival Entertainment Division, Jury Recommended work
15 December, 2006.