Explanatory note

This video offers a digest of EXPT. 03 of the Park Lab program held at Sony Park Mini on the theme of "Does music affect the heart? Or does the heart affect the music?" The video shows an underground passage leading to Sony Park Mini and a sign of Sony Park Mini. A woman enters the venue.

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Park Lab EXPT. 03, the third event of the program, is an experiment on the theme of "Does music affect the heart? Or does the heart affect the music?" in which music is generated according to facial direction and pulse, and lighting is linked to it.

Explanatory note

A woman sits on a couch in front of a screen. A small camera and smartphone are placed before the woman, and a CG rendering of a 3D scan of her face is projected on the screen, along with a BPM figure. As she sits back in the couch and relaxes, the tempo of the melody slows down, and the color of the lights in the venue changes from purple to blue.

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"The melody and lights change according to the relaxed state."

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The scene changes to a view of the venue from the outside, then returns to an inner view of the venue. The melody has returned to the original tempo, and the lights have turned purple again. When the woman turns her head, the CG rendering of her face projected on the screen also turns, and the melody changes.

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"The melody changes when the head is turned."

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When the woman places her hand in front of the smartphone, the screen shows "58 BPM."

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"The music's BPM changes according to the pulse sensed with a camera."

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The BPM and a CG rendering of the woman's face are projected on the screen.

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"How will your heart react to the changing melody and lights?"

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