Sony - FUTURE PROOF : Creating New Instruments
In a lecture room filled with the cacophony of many instruments making noise, a young man spins paper plates on a makeshift cardboard DJ board with plastic block buttons. Now he sits on the steps of a stage with four other young men and a green bubble appears in the corner with text. This is the YURU Music Hackathon, where YURU fans can create their own instruments.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Participants
YURU Musical Instrument Hackathon 2021
Yellow subtitles translate Japanese speakers throughout the video.
PARTICIPANT
“The way to get excited about learning how to play music is to make it fun, and technology helps make it easier and more fun.”
They play with the DJ board. They bounce to the beat as they influence the music. Text appears on a green background between two magenta bubbles. Cheerful techno music plays.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Creating New Instruments
A young man with glasses strums the strings crossing a coat hanger instrument that makes a guitar like sound and shows it to another man. Another young man sits in front of a laptop with a miniature soccer ball in each hand and twists them around making an electronic sound with each turn.
A box is open with two xylophones in its lid, wired to several rows of connecting blocks on one side of the bottom of the box. The other side is a white space with small colored geometric shapes. A hand spins a couple of them and xylophone notes ding. A hand holds Spresense, a microcontroller. A Japanese man in a brown blazer sits for an interview in a dark room with columns of light behind him. A bubble displays text.
ON SCREEN TEXT: Teruki Kirihata
System Engineer
Sony Digital Network
Applications, Inc.
TERUKI
“YURU instruments are meant to be something you can pick up and play without any practice or musical knowledge, and the audio capabilities of Sony’s Spresense are the perfect tool to make that happen.”
Someone holds a miniature saxophone with computer wiring inside its opening. Teruki sits with a laptop and holds a fist-sized computer block, connected to the laptop with a wire. He puts it down and works on the laptop. In Teruki’s interview.
TERUKI
“For example, in the Ultra Light Saxophone, Spresense analyzes the human voice, and outputs the sound in the tone of a saxophone.”
A woman smiles as she sings into the Ultra Light Sax and a saxophone tone comes out.
WOMAN
“[creating saxophone tone] Hello.”
TERUKI
“I’d like to contribute toward culture through technology and help build a world where everyone can play an instrument.”
Another woman helps her young son try the instrument. A man plays the small saxophone, then a blind girl, and then a laughing woman. An off-screen bystander claps.
BYSTANDER
“Wow! Thank you.”
A magenta screen splits into two bubbles on a green screen. The left bubble has a white logo.
ON SCREEN TEXT: FUTURE PROOF
Japanese text is underneath. On the right is a white logo.
ON SCREEN TEXT: SONY
Colors pulse outward with a ding from the center of a dark background where a logo turns white as the background goes black.
ON SCREEN TEXT: SONY