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Kikuo
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Browse piano sheets by Kikuo on Zen Virtual Piano. Kikuo was born in 1988. Noticing little interest in his early works, bright and flashy pop songs with dance tempos, he investigated the Vocaloid genre. A new genre chosen because early pop songs found little interest suggests a producer willing to move toward where his work was heard. He published his first Vocaloid song in 2010, followed by his 2011 debut studio album, Kikuo Miku. His work gained popularity and was featured in the Educational Arts Company high school textbook āHigh School Music 1,ā in a part covering the Vocaloid genre. His production process is well documented, recorded and highlighted in the 2012 āMiku Creatorās Projectā on Google+ and on the online education website Coloso. Sharing his process publicly suggests a producer happy to let others see how the songs are put together. Preferring not to use MIDI keyboards to arrange notes, he points and clicks with a touchpad and mouse. Choosing to place notes by pointing and clicking makes the screen itself his instrument. His high-tempo style draws on instruments belonging to the folk music of various world cultures as well as the childlike sounds of toys and toy pianos, creating colourful and upbeat harmonies. Folk instruments from many cultures beside toy pianos suggest a palette chosen for colour and play more than for convention. Asked in an interview with Rittorās music magazine Plug+ how he chooses sounds that set his music apart, he replied that the philosophy he always follows is ābeauty is consistency.ā A rule of consistency applied to every sound suggests that, for him, character comes from sounds that belong together. Japanese and Chinese software voicebanks provide the main vocals and ad-libs in most of his songs, and recurring voices include the virtual idol Hatsune Miku from Crypton Future Media. As of 2024 Kikuo has created more than a dozen albums and worked with shows, film projects, games and other media. He composed much of the soundtrack of the 2012 Touhou Project game ę±ę¹č¼ē„ēøčµ·, helped compose and master work associated with the musical group Ikitama, and contributed a string arrangement, alongside Nene Rio, to Eveās āKaikai Kitan/Ao no Waltz.ā His manga āI Want an Older Sisterā was created in 2013 and is available on the Japanese art site Pixiv, and in 2023 he wrote a novel with Ryoji Takamatsu that novelizes his two most popular songs. A manga, a novel and a game soundtrack beside the albums suggest a creator whose ideas run past music.
Browse piano sheets by Kikuo on Zen Virtual Piano.
Kikuo was born in 1988. Noticing little interest in his early works, bright and flashy pop songs with dance tempos, he investigated the Vocaloid genre. A new genre chosen because early pop songs found little interest suggests a producer willing to move toward where his work was heard. He published his first Vocaloid song in 2010, followed by his 2011 debut studio album, Kikuo Miku. His work gained popularity and was featured in the Educational Arts Company high school textbook āHigh School Music 1,ā in a part covering the Vocaloid genre.
His production process is well documented, recorded and highlighted in the 2012 āMiku Creatorās Projectā on Google+ and on the online education website Coloso. Sharing his process publicly suggests a producer happy to let others see how the songs are put together. Preferring not to use MIDI keyboards to arrange notes, he points and clicks with a touchpad and mouse. Choosing to place notes by pointing and clicking makes the screen itself his instrument. His high-tempo style draws on instruments belonging to the folk music of various world cultures as well as the childlike sounds of toys and toy pianos, creating colourful and upbeat harmonies. Folk instruments from many cultures beside toy pianos suggest a palette chosen for colour and play more than for convention.
Asked in an interview with Rittorās music magazine Plug+ how he chooses sounds that set his music apart, he replied that the philosophy he always follows is ābeauty is consistency.ā A rule of consistency applied to every sound suggests that, for him, character comes from sounds that belong together. Japanese and Chinese software voicebanks provide the main vocals and ad-libs in most of his songs, and recurring voices include the virtual idol Hatsune Miku from Crypton Future Media.
As of 2024 Kikuo has created more than a dozen albums and worked with shows, film projects, games and other media. He composed much of the soundtrack of the 2012 Touhou Project game ę±ę¹č¼ē„ēøčµ·, helped compose and master work associated with the musical group Ikitama, and contributed a string arrangement, alongside Nene Rio, to Eveās āKaikai Kitan/Ao no Waltz.ā His manga āI Want an Older Sisterā was created in 2013 and is available on the Japanese art site Pixiv, and in 2023 he wrote a novel with Ryoji Takamatsu that novelizes his two most popular songs. A manga, a novel and a game soundtrack beside the albums suggest a creator whose ideas run past music.
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He prefers not to use MIDI keyboards and instead points and clicks with a touchpad and mouse; his production process was documented in the 2012 āMiku Creatorās Projectā and on Coloso.
High-tempo, colourful and upbeat, using instruments from the folk music of various world cultures alongside the childlike sounds of toys and toy pianos.
He told Plug+ that the philosophy he always follows when choosing sounds is ābeauty is consistency.ā