Massive Life Flow; Inside the Mind of Keiichiro Shibuya

Keiichiro Shibuya is a gifted musician who has continued to create fresh sounds by crossing different boundaries and evolving. This series, “Massive Life Flow,” explores his mindset and what he envisions for the future. In the 13th installment, we present you an interview about what Shibuya’s been up to, as well as his music and film scores, with his new performance, Android Aria “Seeds of Prophecy,” which he performed at the Lisbon Film Festival (LEFFEST) on November 18th, as the launchpad of this conversation.

In the 12th installment, we present a report on IDEA – Dialogue on Love, Death, and Existence by Two Androids, Keiichiro Shibuya + Takashi Ikegami, a dialogic performance held on October 13th and 14th at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. 

In the 11th installment of the series, we bring you the official live report of the Android Opera®︎ MIRROR at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which took place for three days starting June 21st, along with some of the video footage of the performance that was released today.

For the tenth installment of this series, we look back on Shibuya’s solo piano concert last December alongside photos taken by Kenshu Shintsubo.

In the ninth installment, we look back on Shibuya’s Android Opera®︎, presented last November at the National Art Center, Tokyo, and its possibilities and perspectives along with Kyoji Takahashi’s photographs.

We present a conversation between Keiichiro Shibuya and ballet dancer Nozomi Iijima, who stars in the music video for his new song, “BORDERLINE.”

In the fifth installment of this series, we report on “MIRROR,” an android opera shown in Dubai in March of this year.

In the fourth installation of this series, we report on an impromptu performance by musician Keiichiro Shibuya and Shingon Buddhist monk Eizen Fujiwara in Dubai last December.

Keiichiro Shibuya’s newest opera piece, Super Angels, is going to be shown for the first time this summer. We look at the innovation behind the new voice of singing android Alter3 in said opera.

Keiichiro Shibuya held his very first live-streamed show back in September. We spoke to him about the thoughts and feelings he had about the show, what he achieved through it, and how he feels live performances will change.