Perfume 25th & 20th Anniversary Live Performance “IMA IMA IMA” Powered by NTT

September 21, 2024

On the night of September 21 2024, which marked the 25th anniversary of Perfume and the 20th anniversary of their major debut, a live-stream performance was staged as a demonstration experiment, harnessing NTT’s telecommunication technology: Perfume 25th & 20th Anniversary Live Performance “IMA IMA IMA” Powered by NTT. The live performance of Perfume and the space they were in was 3D-scanned and transferred in real-time through “3D spatial transmission and recreation technology.” It was an attempt to live-stream a performance in a way that merged the real and the virtual.

The performance was staged in TOKYO NODE HALL, in the Toranomon Hills Station Tower. Five 3D LiDAR sensor devices and six optical cameras from NTT were positioned around the Perfume members, continuously scanning the entire space during their performance. The vast quantity of spatial data that was generated was then transmitted at high speeds in real-time. In the combination of that live data with past 3D data, a live show that merged the real and the virtual was created.

The live-stream performance was directed by MIKIKO, with creative direction by Daito Manabe, and technological development and video production by Rhizomatiks.

Perfume 25th & 20th Anniversary Live Performance "IMA IMA IMA" Powered by NTT
Date : September 21, 2024, 9:00PM-
Credit
Perfume
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KASHIYUKA
NOCCHi

Choreo-Director : MIKIKO
Creative Direction, Technical Direction, Sound Effect Composition, Point Cloud Effect System Development, MultiCam Morphing System Development : Daito Manabe (Studio Daito Manabe)

- Creative -
Creative Director : Kaoru Sugano (TSUZUKU)
Planner : Sotaro Yasumochi (TSUZUKU), Chiemi Manako (Think&Craft)

- Account team -
Account Executive : Takehiro Yamato (Dentsu), Naoki Tanaka (Dentsu), Ryohei Yasuda (Dentsu), Hiromasa Morino (Dentsu)

- Produce -
Executive Producer : Hiroki Gedo (Dentsu Live)
Producer : Shingo Haraguchi (Dentsu Live), Eri Tanaka (Dentsu Live)

- Streaming Live Performance -
Technical Direction : Motoi Ishibashi
Visual Programming, Point Cloud Effect System Development, MultiCam Morphing System Development : Yuta Okuyama (Studio Daito Manabe)
Shooting : Muryo Homma
Lighting Design : Momoko Nishimoto
Technical Support : Shintaro Kamijo, Toshitaka Mochizuki
System Planning, Technical Support, Production Management : Kousaku Namikawa (Studio Daito Manabe)
Production Management : Saki Ishikawa
Production Support : Noriko Ishizuka
Project Management, Produce : Takao Inoue

CG Team : Junichi Ebe, Takeshi Imazu, Syota Yamamoto, Toshihiko Sakata, Masahiro Kadokawa (CuddysPic), Minamo Tokonagi (CuddysPic), Ponta Arahiki (CuddysPic), CHA2 (trico)

Lighting Programming : Kunio Tamada (Tama Tech Lab.), Minoru Kawazu (TELMIC)
Lighting Support : Tokyo Lighting Design

4D VIEWS Supervise : Hajime Kotani (Crescent)
4D VIEWS Engineering : Tadayuki Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Kobayashi, Shunsuke Ohara (Crescent)

Garelley A | Stage Set Design Supervision : Yusuke Tanaka (Cavier)
Garelley A | Stage Set Design : Yui Miyamori (Diamond Snap)

Stage Construction : Masayuki Sawada, Chiawen Lin (Hakuten Corporation.)

- Point cloud technology provision -
Network R&D Producer : Kota Hidaka (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories)
Network R&D Director : Jun Shimamura (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories)
Network R&D Manager : Ryuichi Tanida, Takayoshi Mochizuki (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories)
Network R&D Engineer : Masakatsu Aoki, Shunsuke Konagai, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Taiga Yoshida, Hiroshi Chigira, Takahiro Matsumoto, Takahiro Kusabuka, Masafumi Suzuki (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories), Takashi Miyatake, Osamu Yoshioka, Takashi Kono, Toru Kaneko, Yuya Inamura, Takaaki Kouno, Tsutomu Sasaki, Akira Kurosaka, Youhei Kawasaki, Kousei Onodera, Kenji Tomioka (NTT Techno Cross)
Software R&D Engineer : Haruyuki Moroishi, Kohei Ishii, Toshiki Yura (IMAGICA EEX), Tatsuya Murauchi, Yasunori Kanetaka, Shinya Hukuoka, Shinnosuke Nakajima, Tsukasa Nagahama (Photron)

- Stage -
Chief Stage Director : Daisuke Kondo (T2 Creative)
Stage Director : Yuki Okumura (T2 Creative), Yuma Seki

Choreograph Assistant : SAYA, YU, SHOKO (ELEVENPLAY)
Stylist : Toshio Takeda (MILD inc.), YAEPON
Make : Masako Oosuga
Hair : Tomoka Fukuma (VANETES)

- Web -
Special Web Site Design, Direction : Hiroyasu Kimura
Special Web Site Engineering : Hirofumi Tsukamoto
Special Web Site Produce : Takuma Shukuin
Special Web Site Typography Design : Rintaro Shimohama

- Operation -
Operating Director : Mayumi Kawase (T2 Creative)
Operating Assistant Director : Yuna Imahori (T2 Creative)

- Streaming & Sound -
Technical Director : Kenji Takada (Fedel)
Streaming Director : Hirofumi Takamura, Ryunosuke Nakai (ABANK)
Chief Sound Director : Akihito Kimura (SOUND ACTION)
Sound Director : Hideki Sashida
Sound Operator : Riho Harada

- Intro Movie -
Producer : Masato Sato (GEEKPICTURES)
Production Manager : Hiromu Kaneko (GEEKPICTURES)
Director : TAKCOM (CONNECTION)
Director of Photography : Ryoma Kohari (kirameki)
Steadicam : Yoshinobu Nagamori (NAGAMORINC)
Gaffer : Tetsu Moritera (CONNECTION)
Stylist : Toshio Takeda (MILD inc.)
Make : Masako Oosuga
Hair : Tomoka Fukuma (VANETES)
Offline Editor : Nozomi Sana (CONNECTION)
Online Editor : Chihiro Hagiwara (Khaki)
CG : Koudai Takiguchi (Khaki)
Mixer/SE : Takato Yoshikawa
Sound Composition : Daito Manabe (Studio Daito Manabe)
4D VIEWS Supervise : Hajime Kotani (Crescent)
4D VIEWS Engineering : Tadayuki Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Kobayashi, Shunsuke Ohara (Crescent)

- Venue -
Executive Producer : Isao Kuwana (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
Producer : Takitaro Ishizawa (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
PR : Yui Ota (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
Operation : Naohiro Watanuki, Fumihiko Takita (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
Facility : Hidetaka Nagaji, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Mamiko Matsumoto (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
Management : Iwao Tanaka (Mori Building Co., Ltd./TOKYO NODE)
Town Management : Yoshiki Obana (Mori Building Co., Ltd.)

AMUSE INC.

All Songs Written, Arranged & Produced by Yasutaka Nakata

A&R : Kohei Minegishi, Hiroki Morita (Polydor Records)
Artist Promotion : Asami Iwamoto, Hiroki Takaoka (Polydor Records)
Sales Marketing : Yasutaka Meguro (UNIVERSAL MUSIC)

Executive Producer : Kazuhiro Imanari (Polydor Records)

*Names in bold indicate members of our company. Credits are accurate as of the time of publication of this article.