Solar Ray - Surplus Power

Surplus Power

During the production of the "Hirasawa Energy Works" project, a surge of surplus power happened; during this surge, Hirasawa recorded: "D", an instrumental version of "Electric Light Bathing" from the SIREN album ("D" is short for "Denkōyoku", the romaji spelling of the song's title); "Audio File to Honor the Hunter", an alternate mix of the "Solar Ray" remix, with a speech in place of the standard mix's vocals and "LOOP The Sound Track β1", a composition originally intended to be included in the "Sim City" album that was left unfinished by Hirasawa; it was lated re-utilised as the soundtrack for the short film "loop", conceived as a looping presentation, this short was intended to be viewed in passing in a large, open public space; it contains time lapse and real time footage supporting alternative energy concepts; the graphics are the animated extension of a cover design for Hemispheres that was inspired by the "Hirasawa Energy Works" project. The short was made by twenty2product, a motion graphics and interactive design company that had previously worked with Hirasawa on the short film "densha"; they later collaborated when Hirasawa did: The soundtracks to twenty2's intro sequence for the International Designers Network's second iteration of the "IdN My Favorite Conference" conference and twenty2's trade show loop featuring Adobe Expert Support; twenty2product also did motion graphics work for Hirasawa's "Interactive Live Show 2003 LIMBO-54" and "INTERACTIVE LIVE SHOW 2006 「LIVE Byakkoya」" tours.