Taro Ishida served as music producer and composer for KOISHIKAWA XROSS®, a digital cultural heritage museum at TOPPAN’s headquarters. The museum presents cultural heritage through digital archives, moving images and interactive exhibits.
The commission covered four spaces: the entrance, a theatre with a large curved LED display, an interactive exhibition area and an immersive video environment. The music was developed with attention to the scale of the images, the way each exhibit is experienced and visitors’ movement between areas.
The exhibits also include a sanukite installation in which visitors strike stone to produce sound. The musical approach considered the relationship between viewing, physical interaction and listening in each space.
The project brought together TOPPAN, Total Media Development Institute and specialists in architecture, visual production, CG, programming and acoustics. Drifter’s contribution was music production and composition within that collaboration.
