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Culturesport creates interactive digital drum machine and anime film for KENZO

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Date
20 June 2016
A 3D render of Kenzo handbags displayed on colourful pedestals against a black background. To the left, a vintage monitor on a classical plinth displays the text “KENZO” and instructions for a “CS-909” device. A digital control panel with colourful buttons and the text “KENZO CS909” is laid over the bottom of the frame.

Culturesport has created an interactive digital drum machine for fashion brand KENZO, and a film featuring its hyperreal anime characters.

Artwork by the enigmatic art and film collective has taken over the brand’s homepage, featuring a woman with giant prismatic eyes, projecting holograms of the sound board from her hands.

On first visit the homepage shows a surreal animation introducing the project. It then reveals the interactive section: a drum machine, flickering television, and a collection of handbags on pedestals. Visitors can select sections of the sound board to compose their own track, then play it and watch the handbags dance along. It’s called the KENZO CS909, a riff on the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer.

A 3D anime series by Culturesport is currently in production, with a few preview clips available to view on its Instagram profile. It also previously created a CGI video to accompany fashion brand Telfar’s runway show.

A digital illustration of a figure wearing oversized, iridescent goggles and a blue top. They are surrounded by high-tech equipment and floating shopping bags against a dark, neon-lit background. The Kenzo logo appears in the top left corner alongside a navigation menu.
A collection of Kenzo bags is displayed on colourful geometric plinths against a black background. To the left, a vintage television sits on a blue pedestal, and a Kenzo CS 909 drum machine is shown in the foreground.
An animation in which a stylised figure with wide eyes looks forward against a pink background, with the word “Huh!” appearing below. The scene then shifts to a glitchy, high-contrast collage featuring a computer monitor displaying the word “Kenzo”.

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