It’s a crowded music industry, so what can you do to stand out from the rest?
Well, the answer in Japan would seem to be: use female pubic hair to produce new sounds. No, this not appear to be a spoof and it’s far too late for April Fools’ Day.
Taku Takahashi is a musician and DJ with the unit hip hop m-flo, which has experimented with finding new sounds. Takahashi’s latest electronic triumph is In Motion.
Here’s how he describes it:
An unprecedented musical project, Public Hair Grooving broadcasts a new wave of groove into the world with groomed pubic hair. Taku Takahashi from m-flo delivers a new groove into the world, with his (stylish/sensational/latest) arrangements of sounds generated from individual waveforms provided by project participants.
Yes, inspired by the idea that pubic hair “looks like sound waves”, Takahashi and his collaborators employed actual women’s bush hair to get the sounds you can hear in the finished track.
There’s certainly no shortage of “underhair” here. After all, Japanese women don’t tend to groom their bushes (in stark contrast to the rest of their body, which is typically shaved all over).
As Takahashi himself admitted, it is a “crazy idea”. “It wasn’t easy to tame these unruly notes into music. It’s a bit melancholic, it tugs at the heartstrings.”
Have a listen to the results below!
And here is a video with English subtitles about the making of the track. Unfortunately they don’t seem to explain how the women were chosen, their hair collected, or what was actually done to the hair to create the sounds.
It reminds us of this musical masterpiece composed only of sounds from the porn catalogue of AV star Mihane Yuuki.
