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BORDERLINE

Keiichiro Shibuya

Pain is a vital part of our lives

And part of developing a special set of senses

A perfect way to treat pain

As a whole is by doing what we love to do and find our true self

But for some, pain cannot be considered as a source of discovery

Since it can just complicate matters going forward

The world you have once loved is no longer yours

But that is the very song that haunts him night and noon

Let him will! In the midst of

His madness, his voice rises above

The noise of the sea and the storm

It is the song he sung for her in Galle

How long a time has passed since that summer afternoon and sunset, and his voice

That not happened on better ears

Than those of the voyageur

Pain is a vital part of our lives

A perfect way to treat pain and find our true self

The world you have once loved is no longer yours

BORDERLINE

  • Lyricist

    GPT

  • Composer

    Keiichiro Shibuya

  • Mixing Engineer

    Francois Baurin

  • Mastering Engineer

    Rashad Becker

  • Vocals

    Alter4

  • Piano

    Keiichiro Shibuya

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    BORDERLINE

    Keiichiro Shibuya

'BORDERLINE', the second single from Keiichiro Shibuya's new album ATAK027 ANDROID OPERA MIRROR, heads more assuredly towards the digital realm, using lyrics generated by GPT software. "Pain is a vital part of our lives," sings Shibuya's android starlet. "The world you have once loved is no longer yours." It's a chilling performance that crystallizes Shibuya's notions on the tenuous relationship between life and death, human and automaton, with the phantasmic words spiralling around, touching piano phrases and brassy swells.

Artist Profile

  • Keiichiro Shibuya

    Keiichiro Shibuya (b. 1973) is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist. His work encompasses cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, operas, film scores, and sound installations. Through his music compositions and collaboration with artists and scientists, he challenges the boundaries between humans, technology, and life and death. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK, working across live performance and recorded music. In 2021, he composed the opera Super Angels, commissioned by the New National Theatre Tokyo, which brought together an android, opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, he presented MIRROR, a new Android Opera in collaboration with Buddhist chanting and a local UAE orchestra, at the Dubai Expo. In June 2023, a 70-minute full version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with a Tokyo performance scheduled for June 2024. In April 2024, he presented his sound installation Abstract Music at the Lexus exhibition for Milan Design Week. He has also composed numerous film scores, including the music for the film Midnight Swan (2020), directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, for which he won the 75th Mainichi Film Concours Music Award and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Score. In 2022, he composed the score for xxxHOLiC (directed by Mika Ninagawa) and provided the music for the short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI. Through his works, he continues to explore the boundaries of technology, life, and death.

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