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Illustration
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Photography
Music & Audio
Architecture

Name: Takagi Masakatsu
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Website: www.takagimasakatsu.com
Sound of Light: Takagi Masakatsu is a visual artist and musician whose work knows no aesthetic borders. He has presented video installations and performed live at art spaces around the world. He also produces music videos, as well as music for commercials and film. He has toured with musician and remix artist David Sylvian. In 2006, “Bloomy Girls,” a visual book with his video arts collection, was released. Res magazine named him one of the 2006 RES 10, an annual selection of emerging artists who will influence the worlds of film, video, design, advertising, music, and media art in the upcoming year and beyond.
On iTunes: Journal for People (2006)
Pia (2005)
Opus Pia (2005)
Eating (2003)
Eating 2 (2003)

Gallery

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Private drawing

I made this during David Sylvian’s European tour in 2003. Every night after the show, I came back to the hotel and made the drawings one by one using my PowerBook and After Effects.

Birdland#2

This was made for the agnes b. shops in Japan from footage captured in Istanbul, Turkey. There were so many birds flying around the market there. The black-and-white movement — tree branches changing into people, leaves into birds — was created with the masking tool in Adobe After Effects.

Girls

This was recorded in Boston. The music is from one of my live performances.

Lightning

This is a music video for a Japanese singer called UA, made in collaboration with the painter Saeko Takagi. She painted much of the background and I created the animation.