Artist Profiles - Roland VR-5 Owner's Manual

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Artist Profiles

The content on the included SD card was created by the following artists.
* The copyright of contents in accessory SD card (movie data, picture data and sound waveform data) of this product is reserved by Roland
Corporation.
Purchasers of this product are permitted to utilize said content for the creating, performing, recording and distributing original visual or
musical works. Commercial use is also possible. Purchasers of this product are NOT permitted to extract said content in original or modified
form, for the purposes of distributing recorded medium of said content or making them available on a computer network.
Masaru Ozaki (VJ MASARU)
Filmmaker, Ambient Video Producer, and Art Director
As Japan's foremost projection-mapping artist and video producer, Masaru is a performing
art pioneer who creates images in real time to music at stage performances and live events.
As a VJ, in 2005 he released the "BEHIND" DVD featuring a performance in which he made
the world's first use of a novel crossfader technique.
Masaru is also engaged in visual and ambient production for fashion shows by John
Lawrence Sullivan, Neil Barrett, Diesel, and other leading global brands. At Japan Fashion
Week in Tokyo, he created a real-time scan of a three-dimensional object over 30 meters
high.
His artistic piece "chair" is a "sculpture of light" created by projecting a 3D image onto a solid
object. At "Rooms," the largest fashion event of its kind in Japan or abroad, held in February
2009, he conducted a projection-mapping performance that involved scanning the Yoyogi
National Gymnasium, adjusting the image, and projecting it as a 3D visual. Later that year, he was commissioned to create a
Christmas tree installation in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Japan's Parco department store, and a one-man
exhibition titled "Masaru Ozaki: Motion + Design + Magic" was held concurrently. A solo show at Parco Factory in Fukuoka, Japan
in 2010 drew 53,072 visitors over its two-week run, earning the artist wide attention as a ground-breaking auteur of visuals and
sculpture.
Masaru is also expanding his activities world wide, and had a hand in many installations at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China that
began in May 2010, including a piece on permanent display at the main entrance to the Japan Pavilion.
He has produced or created performance images for concerts for Hideaki Tokunaga, Hound Dog, the Ungirls comedy duo,
Fashion Week Japan in Tokyo, and classical music concerts emceed by Akira Senju, and has performed at numerous club events.
He has created promotional videos for Gravity and Yellow Generation, and has created numerous title background animations for
TV shows such as Universal Studios Japan "KWBB," Denki Groove "WIRE.WIRELESS" TV SPOT, and the "Daisuki!" drama series.
Masaru also designs graphics for advertisements and flyers, consults on product design for Roland and other firms, and assists
brand art direction for companies such as Goldwin.
Tosh Masuda
Since graduating from the Showa Academia Musicae Composition Department's Digital Music
course, Tosh Masuda has appeared as an arranger, sound producer, composer, programmer, and
musician.
As a sound producer, Tosh has worked with such Japanese artists as ACO, Keyco, SAKURA, HOME
MADE KAZOKU, CORE OF SOUL, and SKOOP ON SOMEBODY. He has made arrangements for
Chemistry, RHYTHEM, and Miho Nakayama and worked as a mixer for Ayumi Hamasaki and
MIHO.
Tosh is a multi-instrumentalist musician, doing his own programming and performing on guitar
and bass. With the Japanese group CALM, Tosh has also shown his skill on multiple recordings, at
concerts, and singing for television commercials.
Applying his talents to an even wider array of activities, Tosh worked with Masaru Ozaki on the
music for the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China and for department store Parco's 40th
anniversary Christmas tree, and has gone to work as a sound producer for live events by the Japanese comedy duo Ninety-Nine.
Tosh has been the musical director and singing instructor for stage productions by well-known Japanese screenwriter Kankuro
Kudo, as well as the arranger for stage productions by Suzuki Matsuo, and is also active as a member of Lime Sour, the hip-hop
unit of the Japanese band Group Tamashii.
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