The theme of the YOASOBI program, "HEART BEAT: Resonance" is "Semiconductors create new realities." It is an experiential musical program utilizing "HEART BEAT," the theme song for NHK General TV's "YOASOBI 18Fes."
For this song, YOASOBI collected messages, text, and performance videos from 18-year-olds across Japan, under the theme of "Heartbeat." Driven by the emotion behind these, YOASOBI wrote up an original song, and worked with 1,000 18-year-olds to turn it into a dynamic song with an important message. This experiential musical program was inspired by the song's origin story—namely, how it was recorded on the day of "YOASOBI 18Fes," with the 1,000 18-year-olds who took part in the event singing the song in a chorus.
It is a special musical experience, one that involves creating a "heartbeat object" for each individual visitor, consistent with the "Heartbeat" theme of the song, that senses the heartbeat of the visitor, and resonates with the YOASOBI heartbeat object. The program also features special devices and mechanisms, including the heartbeat objects of Ayase and ikura of YOASOBI, and a vibrating "Haptic Floor"* that senses the movement of the visitors' heartbeat objects. The generated heartbeat object can be taken home on visitors' smartphones.
*The haptic technology, "Haptic Floor"
This technology is solely based on the vibrotactile feedback from the floor, the system delivers delicate and highly immersive sensation to the participant's entire body, by leveraging the signal processing technology and know-how accumulated in the past by Sony.
