[ISEA2023] Artist Statement: Tatsuru Arai — Face of Universe

Artist Statement

Exhibition. Digitale Zone, Marseille, Aug 1 – Sep 15

The principle of our ecosystem was born from the nuclear fusion energy of the sun. At the beginning of the earth’s birth, atmosphere contained a lot of carbon dioxide and nitrogen and was high Temperature.After that, over hundreds of millions of years, earth’s surface cooled, and the water vapor turned into rain and fell on the earth’s surface, forming the sea. About 4 billion years ago, plants were born in the sea.Long after that, our human civilization formed urban. There are several papers, through NASA’s observation that plants on Earth are increasing as plants that require carbon dioxide absorb carbon dioxide emitted by humans. Here we can find principles and tips for how Urban city and ecosystems can coexist.

The wild flowers that coexist in the Urban are part of the history of the ecosystem born from the nuclear fusion energy of the sun, and may be the ‘face of the universe’.
https://www.tatsuruarai.com/%E8%A4%87%E8%A3%BD-installation-face-of-universe

  • Tatsuru Arai (1981, Japan) is composer/sound-graphicprogrammer/creator of Gesamtkunstwerk. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. 2003-2009 Bachelor and Diplom studies in composition with Akira Nishimura,Toshio Hosokawa and Sunao Isaji at Tokyo college of Music. 2007 in composition-class with Bernhard Lang at Implus in Graz. 2009-2013 MA-studies Compostion, Computer-programming and Multimedia-art with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Opera “Vitruvian“ was performed Berlin and London. His main artistic theme is to integrate from classical compositions to new technology, as ‘TRANS-AGES MUSIC’, and to present the fundamental physical nature of the universe in the form of perceptional experiences, that could be called aesthetics of  ‘geometric structure’. The human perception of sound, a physical phenomenon, influences human beings and the ‘geometric structure’ is a fundamental pillar that allows us to understand the true nature of the universe. Creating a way to experience even a part of the nature of the universe through sound. From 2016 he is composing Hyper Serial Music that will add innovation to the principle of Serialism three-point: “structural”, “complex” and “noisy”. Hyper-Serial-Music is the algorithm music generated by state-of-the-art technology such as Artificial Intelligence than by native human intelligence only. He is performing this work in over 70 cities. https://www.tatsuruarai.com