VGCulture - Music - Vocaloid Hatsune Miku

Last week, I posted a filler video of Snake dancing around.  The program used for those videos is called Miku Miku Dance which was created for creating dance visuals with songs users created with the program Vocaloid -Hatsune Miku.

Source: Youtube Channel pireze

To put it simply, Hatsune Miku is a virtual superstar that revolves around an active community of musicians, artists, choreographers, directors, and such.  Vocaloid is a program, developed by Yamaha Corporation, that allows users to manipulate the words, pitch and bends of a virtual voice used to create songs.  Users can then upload their creations on the internet such as Niconico (Japan's version of Youtube) with any other relating media and collaborate on creating products of an entity such as Hatsune Miku or any of the other Vocaloid programs such as Rin and Len (different developers).  This has since created a crazy phenomenon among the Animé, Japanese Culture, and Music community.  I first heard of Hatsune Miku through existing animé songs that people took and used the program to simulate the program singing it.  It wasn't the first time I heard of a virtual singer (or simulated singing), but I got curious and started to learn more about the Vocaloid program.  I think it's an amazing program that has since brought a community of different talents together to create such a strong sense of fandom for a virtual idol.

Source: Youtube Channel asahicom

This video pretty much explains the origin and phenomenon behind Hatsune Miku.  I personally love the idea of Vocaloid.  It has given many musicians and artists an inspiration for their creation and has reached out to parts of the world they did not expect.  Many Americans and Europeans know of Hatsune Miku and the work that people have done throughout the internet such as dances, 3D modeling, CG art, videos, and remixes all featuring the character.  I hear there's a rhythm game for the PSP based on the virtual diva now:

Source: Youtube Channel KujaSephy

That's it for now.  You can type in Hatsune Miku on Youtube to check out all the other songs or Miku Miku Dance to see some crazy dance videos that may or may not involve Snake from Metal Gear Solid.