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Beautiful Cyborg 1
Beautiful Cyborg 1 features 6 sono-musical portraits of the following characters:
1. Elaine from Genocyber
2. Alita from Battle Angel Alita
3. Angel from Angel Cop
4. Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion
5. Priss from Bubble Gum Crash
6. Mokoto from Ghost In The Shell
Beautiful Cyborg 2Beautiful Cyborg 2 features 6 sono-musical portraits of the following characters:
1. Armitage from Armitage III
2. Sho from The Guyver
3. Subaru from Tokyo Babylon
4. Usagi from Sailor Moon
5. Andromeda from Space Adventure Cobra
6. Tetsuro from Akira
Both Beautiful Cyborg 1 & 2 celebrate the visual themes typical of hard SF and cyberpunk anime in which Japan excels: sensuous metals; delicate super-conductors; contemplative gears; penile foreheads; delicious motor mechanics; dimensional speed; transfigured space; sculptured visages. To this is added a heady mix of musical motifs, textural sheets, pulsating rhythms and unearthly sounds which float throughout the auditorium in a hovering, shimmering, soaring and bombastic quadraphonic soundfield playback.
More than a techno-fest with a pretty rush of images of aliens, cyborgs, robots, androids, re-designed humans and hi-tech mechanica, Beautiful Cyborg 1 & 2 go to the core of Japanese audiovision to uncover what Brophy has noted is "the psycho-acoustic world turned inside-out" (Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Tyranny of the English Voice in Anime Real Time No.32, 1999). The newly imagined and realized music of Beautiful Cyborg 1 & 2 floats asynchronously, following the emotional compaction and contradiction which typifies the post-human psyche in Japanese anime. Listen to the erotic synapses firing in their bodies. Hear their engorged metallica hum and breathe. Loose yourself in the gorgeously inside-out world of anime.
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