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This video offers a digest of EXPT. 02 of the Park Lab program held at Sony Park Mini on the theme of "What music does the city play?" The video shows an underground passage leading to Sony Park Mini and an exterior view of the venue. A bird's-eye view of an intersection shows cars driving by. Music is playing in the background.

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"Park Lab EXPT. 02 will offer an experience to enjoy the transient cityscape as music."

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Yellow circles appear across the screen. They contract when a car passes underneath, returning to the original size once it passes through. The music changes in sync with the movement of cars.

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"Sony's sensing and AI technologies will be used to turn the movements of people, cars and light into music in real time."

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The scene changes to an image of a sidewalk outside Ginza Sony Park. People walking by a wall are framed in yellow.

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"It is an experiment to see what kind of music the city plays."

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A smartphone is set before a television showing an image of the sidewalk, which is captured by the smartphone. On the smartphone screen, people walking by the wall are each framed in yellow. The music changes in sync with the movement of people.

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"Visitors can enjoy music played by the scenery, implemented as a smartphone application."

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When a woman places her hand before the smartphone camera , her hand shown on the smartphone screen is framed in yellow.

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"Music is generated in real time using information from image sensors."

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A tablet showing a bird's-eye image of an intersection is placed on a table. A smartphone is set above it, capturing the image shown on the tablet. Yellow circles can be seen across the smartphone screen, and they contract when people pass underneath, returning to the original size once they pass through. The music changes in sync with the movement of the people passing by the intersection.

At the venue, a question on the wall asks visitors, "Which do you prefer?" Under the question, "Intersection" and "Sidewalk" are provided as answers. A number of yellow circular stickers are attached under each answer. "Intersection" has more stickers than "Sidewalk."

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