Oct 28, 2015
Music for a Dying Star
Album of songs created with sound sources from the ALMA Music Box

The ALMA Music Box exhibition’s success prompted the production of the crowd-funded compilation CD “Music for a Dying Star”.

11 international artists, including Taeji Sawai, Takagi Masakatsu, Throwing a Spoon, and Christian Fennesz composed music using the 70 unique musical loops that was derived from the music box. We also collaborated with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra to perform the album live at the Kyoto Okazaki Loop Festival in front of 2000 audiences.

We took part in the artist curation, all design work for the album, and created a website in which users can “travel” through space and listen to the album samples.

Credit
Art Direction / Design / Web Design & Development
Creative Director
Music Box Recording
Promotion
Madoka Shimotsunuki (PARTY Tokyo)
Promotion
Mandy Wang (PARTY Tokyo)
A&R / Promotion
Sari Hayashiguchi (Epiphany Works)
Data Sonification for Music Box
Toru Urakawa (Qosmo)
Data Sonification for Music Box
Nao Tokui (Qosmo)
Music Box Recording
Taeji Sawai (Qosmo)
Mastering
Mitsuo Koike (AST Mastering)
Production Management
Ryoichi Kiyomiya (vinylsoyuz)
Supervision on Astronomy
Masaaki Hiramatsu (NAOJ)
Musician
mito
Musician
milk (Taro Umebayashi)
Musician
Shuta Hasunuma
Musician
Goro Ito
Musician
Taeji Sawai
Musician
Steve Jansen
Musician
Shione Yukawa
Musician
Throwing a Spoon
Musician
Taikuh Jikang
Musician
Masakatsu Takagi
Musician
Christian Fennesz