Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away this year, but Kagami is a mixed-reality show that allows you to watch him play his piano once again by slipping on a Magic Leap headset.
Indre Viskontas, a neuroscientist and operatic soprano who serves on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, says that knowing who wrote the piece can affect how people experience it too. In 2013, a team of researchers ran a neuroimaging study in which they asked people to lie in a scanner and listen to a piece of music that was the same for everyone. One half was told the music was composed by a human, and the other half was told it was composed by a machine.
Viskontas acknowledges that the same study might yield different results if it were performed today, when our culture is steeped inhuman, and was performing his own songs for the recording—it was just his presence that was relayed through a machine.
Still, the show remains a captivating attempt at capturing the impossible and freezing it in time. With no room for improv, Sakamoto will display the exact same emotions every single time the performance runs. Will the magic fade away if I go back a second time? Perhaps Sakamoto knew the stakes. Reflecting on Kagami in early 2023, shortly before his death, he wrote: "There is, in reality, a virtual me. This virtual me will not age, and will continue to play the piano for years, decades, centuries … Will there be empathy there? Empathy that spans hundreds of thousands of years. Ah, but the batteries won't last that long."
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