It's hot. The air conditioner doesn't work properly because the number of audience are over the capability of this hall. However, no one complains about that. All the people are enchanted by the exciting performances in the very front of them.
In the nearly pitch-dark hall, a woman is singing on the stage at the same level of audience's seats. Her voice is like a limpid scream and seems to stimulate one's inner sense rather than real ears. Numberless scales -- such as the high tone which easily reaches into the midst of one's brain and the low tone which expresses each single vibration of a valve of her vocal chords -- are combined and give various expressions -- joy, sorrow, and sometimes absense of expression.
Related information:
- one shot on rehearsal
- A view of the hall before the performance was started; in QuickTime VR format
- gray out + Netday Japan ~the connected events
- A slide-like material (GIF images and a Java applet)
- report of the Day (it is written in Japanese...)
- Document of the day from a personal view; with hyper-text links
- children's recorded voices used in a performance
- List of links of the voices originally recorded at various sites in Japan
- how to watch the performance with NTT video-on-demand system
- A guide to watch the moving picture of gray out with the system like Phoenix
- related links
- links to the pages which are related to gray out or Netday Japan
Copyright (c) 1996 by Y. Fukuda
e-mail: fuk@st.rim.or.jp