The film My Music Story: Perfume about the Japanese trio is available on the video-on-demand platform Disney+ USA, since March 19.

By Ludmilla Intravaia

To know everything (or almost) about the Japanese group Perfume is now possible. Since March 19, the video-on-demand platform Disney+ has put online in the United States, in its new musical series My Music Story, a documentary produced by Disney Deluxe in Japan, dedicated to the electro J-POP trio, composed of Ayano Omoto, Yuka Kashino and Ayaka Nishiwaki. Flashback on the history of the group founded in 2000, rehearsals and performances, confidences and backstage punctuate this film as gracious as the singers Nocchi, Kashiyuka and A-chan, whose title Polyrhythm, released in 2007, was part of the soundtrack of the Disney movie Cars 2, in 2011.

The documentary contains two exclusive performances by Perfume, produced especially for this occasion and directed by their lifelong choreographer Mikiko Mizuno, the songs Part of your World from Disney's The Little Mermaid 1989 movie (see the extract from the documentary in the video below) and Door to Freedom from the Disney film Tangled in 2010 (see below).

The film also presents a short interview with the engineer and digital artist Motoi Ishibashi of the Japanese company Rhizomatiks, specialist in digital arts, in charge of the scenic devices of the J-POP artists, with whom he has been collaborating since 2007. Motoi Ishibashi explains the scenographic use of projection mapping, a multimedia technology to project light and videos on volumes, in the case of Perfume, for example on moving panels, as seen during its concert at Coachella festival, in 2019 (see below).

It is also in partnership with Motoi Ishibashi, as well as the programmer and digital artist Daito Manabe of Rhizomatiks that Perfume released, on April 11, 2012, its fashion tech music video Spring of Life, in which the three singers metamorphose into robotic creatures. They wear dresses, shoes and bracelets, whose lighting device is signed by Japanese hardware designer Tomoaki Yanagisawa who makes them shine right down to their LEDs fingernails. When it's not a robotic arm that takes care of their impeccable manicure, as you can see below.

Another version of the light-up dresses, in blue and green this time, was worn by the singers for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan on June 23, 2012.

Perfume’s luminous dresses and accessories were presented at an exhibition in 2013 in Tokyo (see video below). Perfume’s partnership with Rhizomatiks was also exhibited in England and the United States in 2016, under the name Perfume: a Gallery Experience.

The Japanese group was awarded in 2013 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the digital concept Perfume Global Site Project. On this occasion, Perfume performed the song Spending All My Time, whose choreography merged with the projection mapping visual effects of Rhizomatiks (see video below). Rhizomatiks is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo with an exhibition entitled rhizomatiks_multiplex, from March 20 to June 20, 2021.

* My Music Story: Perfume is available since March 19, 2021 on Disney+ USA.

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