From November 11, it will be held in Shibuya of the city such as Shibuya CC Lemon Hall "2nd Shibuya Music Festival". Hajime Chikamori artists in charge of the art direction and poster design. While announcing the ambitious work in various fields of media art, also announced playful picture book or product. The Shibuya of the city Chikamori's feel.

- Relations and the impression that the Shibuya of the city?

Born in Tokyo, but grew up in Yokohama. Was out going voluntarily to Shibuya in the time of high school, I had come from Hiyoshi with a school to play in Shibuya Toyoko line. At that time in Chima heyday, we did not go in so much one person because he was afraid of feeling (laughs). Now you may go to buy together and listen from thorough search well in the intervals of work HMV and Tower Records, etc., but there are memories that come brought to his father in Tokyu Bunka Kaikan in childhood. By that time at that time, it is a city that place is different to frequently access. When the little place among the Shibuya different, so that others do not place Some aggressive place, I think that it's impossible to define the Shibuya of culture in a word.

- Did you have a first what kind of impression about "Shibuya Music Festival"?

As a project in a wide area, we wanted involved in the planning, such as transmission of culture that spread from the music festival. Has received the story from the first music festival that took place last year, I felt that it very interesting place I went to actually see. Although the band you're playing or was a lock, the audience of young people and the elderly in the audience is place with a sense of unity of some sort has been formed. Shibuya is often seen biased, but I feel one of the possibilities for the occasion, was watching the stage wondering what not can be something more. Rather than simply the fact that do only festival music, was I think it is interesting is also going to spread it to people of "art event".

- This time of the poster of the theme?

I feel also participate, such as art festivals and music festivals overseas, but these planning I think it is important to continue. The first is going to little things To Start gathered volunteers, but will be recognized by the International by the subsequent 10 to 20 years. Only then, I think that the culture that there is going to call. And I see the last year of the posters, when looking for and that nothing Uketsugeru something, was the impressive was the pink. The active side of Shibuya, is a color to feel the active force because the reputation was good, we decided to go left as the key color of the "Shibuya Music Festival".

- It was the "monkey" to the icon ....

I decided to make something that could be an icon before continuing. Every year at the same time, the icon will appear in the city of Shibuya, which will enhance the exciting feeling that something will begin this year. So what I intuitively came up with was the image of a monkey. There is a pink monkey drawn on the back of the staff jumper, and if you are walking in the streets of Shibuya, you will feel like a jack of pink monkey (laughs). When I imagined YAMANOTE LINE, I also learned that the west-southwest direction is a monkey. When I thought about new animals, not the established characters like Hachiko or Moyai, I was reminded of the activity of moving freely around monkeys, the appearance of walking through the crowds and the jungle, and walking. The other is "bark". It seems that there is a habit of communicating with special gibberish like groups in the gibbons. When someone sings out, the image is that the energy of the city responds to the voice. The impression that there were many bands called bands at the music festival was also impressive, and it was also repeated that some kind of team was created and played. The reason why I made 3 monkeys is from the music festival concept "3 little words". It's not "look at what monkey says, hear it" (laughs).

It is what you'd expect to Shibuya music festival - two round?

That the Shibuya, music also I think that it is not the one of the genre. I have a music festival that is doing every year in Paris, but doing music on a street corner of everywhere in the city, most sound do not mix and separating the street one because the stone. Since the good is in Shibuya, there is a lot of music, such as the brass band and percussion, anything you think interesting if in such a way that is acceptable. I think of that jumbled is really also a Tokyo manner, Japanese, and consider what we make and how the culture of Shibuya outgoing, the "music" as a key, be able to musical expression in the video and paintings unknown. Ahead, I think interesting kana try to do that across the various media.

Than was held in the "Galerie Teo", "motoyoshi chikamori ++ kyoko kunoh" Exhibition of Higashi Gotanda