Chouchou

Chouchou official regions are now back in SecondLife

2012-01-08T06:56:00.003-05:00

On January 8th, 2012, all of our regions are now open. There are 3 regions total.

Thank you so much for waiting so long till this day.

Chouchou - Chouchou

The Center and core of all our regions

- Play land's music and media. (Make sure QickTime is installed on your computer.)
- The sky of Chouchou slowly and uniquely changes from sunrise to midnight about every 4 hours.
- Set the sun to "Use Region Settings" to fully enjoy the sky of Chouchou.
- Get and wear "Chouchou Cinematic HUD" at the entrance if you want to get the cinematic effect.
- Take the ladder to teleport to our other locations.

Islamey - Chouchou

The garden in the sky(Chouchou's live venue)
（Current theme：Japan）

- Play land's music and enjoy a little bit of air of Japan.
- The sky of Islamey slowly and uniquely changes from sunrise to midnight about every 4 hours.
- Set the sun to "Use Region Settings" to fully enjoy the sky of Islamey.

Memento mori - Chouchou V

The huge solemn cathedral-like building above the clouds

- Set the draw distance to 512m.
- Play land's music.
- The sky of Memento mori slowly and uniquely changes from sunrise to midnight about every 4 hours.
- Set the sun to "Use Region Settings" to fully enjoy the sky of Memento mori.
- Get and wear "Chouchou Cinematic HUD" at the entrance if you want to get the cinematic effect.
- The bell sounds every hour on the hour.

The Bebel - Chouchou XVI

Chouchou's sound lab where our music comes from(Interactive installation art)

- Set the draw distance to 512m.
- Play land's music and media. (Make sure QickTime is installed on your computer.)
- Set the sun to MIDDAY to fully enjoy The Babel.
- Please read The Babel Master Book for the complete instruction.
- You can purchase each box with a little sound of Chouchou.
- You can look through all the boxes and purchase as the complete set at the small room on the top floor.

All of our places are very quiet and delicate with the strong concepts, so please note that any gestures with sounds, large prims, big particles and showy lightings are not allowed in all of our regions.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Enjoy.

Videos - Chouchou Niraikanai Live Concert

2012-01-05T08:41:00.003-05:00

Here's Chouchou's new videos from Chouchou Niraikanai concert beautifully shot and edited by tadakuma. We highly recommend you watch them in HD.

Best Wishes for the New Year.

Chouchou New Album "theme01 Niraikanai"

2011-12-19T23:26:00.005-05:00

*in stores now*

Chouchou FIRST CONCEPT ALBUM
- based on the concept of fusing traditional Japanese sounds with Chouchou

"theme01 Niraikanai"

*Click the image for full-length preview.

It is now available at iTunes, bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

Chouchou Niaraikanai Live Concert

2011-12-17T06:44:00.009-05:00

Chouchou FIRST CONCEPT ALBUM - based on the concept of fusing traditional Japanese sounds with Chouchou

"theme01 Niraikanai"
OUT DEC. 17

NIRAIKANAI LIVE CONCERT

Date: Dec 17th
Open:4:30AM(PST)
Start:5:00AM(PST)
Place: Islamey(SecondLife)
Streaming: USTREAM/n i t a i r e r a(High Quality)/iPhone&iPad(iOS)

*important*

*We'll gradually increase the agent limit up to 50 depending on the status of the sim. If you can not TP to the location, please wait for a moment and try again.

*The recommended graphic setting is High, and please make sure that "Sky" is set to high. Depending on your graphic card, you may have difficulties viewing lighting and particle effects during the show. If you experience the situations like this, please try to sit in the front. If that still can't solve the situation, we'll recommend that you also watch the streaming at nitairera to enjoy the show.

*Go to Preferences, Sound & Media, and make sure "Streaming music" and "Master Volume" are set to the max volume.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with heavy scripts or any lighting and particle effects.

*The album will be released after the show.

Enjoy.

New Release "eclipse"

2011-01-22T16:09:00.003-05:00

in stores now

"eclipse"

*Click the artwork for full-length preview.

It is now available at bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

We'll also release the music video soon.

New Release "anemone"

2010-11-30T04:56:00.006-05:00

in stores now

"anemone"

*Click the artwork for full-length preview.

It is now available at bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

And this time, we also made the music video for this song.

anemone music video

Videos – Chouchou live at AVENUE’s 3rd Anniversary

2010-11-29T16:31:00.000-05:00

Here's Chouchou's new live videos from AVENUE's 3rd anniversary.

Chouchou Sound Collection Albums

2010-11-27T03:22:00.010-05:00

*Chouchou Sound Collection Albums*

"sound01 feather" "sound02 story"

*Click each artwork for full-length preview.

This album is like a little box of Chouchou sounds for your daily life. You can use them for your computer like startup and shutdown sounds, email sounds, skype sounds and so on. If you're using iPhone, you can also set them as your ringtones and alarms.

They are now available at bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

New Album "VINCULUM"

2010-11-14T02:43:00.006-05:00

*in stores now*

"VINCULUM"

*Click the artwork for full-length preview.

VINCULUM　Lyrics and Artworks

http://chouchou.cc/VINCULUM/

It is now available at iTunes, bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

Videos – Chouchou live at Electrogram 2010

2010-11-09T23:25:00.002-05:00

Live videos from Chouchou's live at Electrogram 2010 are now on Youtube.

Remix Album "remix01 electrogirl"

2010-09-25T13:23:00.005-04:00

*in stores now*

"remix01 electrogirl"

*Click the artwork for full-length preview.

It is now available at iTunes, bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

Chouchou Music Radio Maintenance

2010-08-29T05:16:00.003-04:00

Chouchou music radio is currently not working because the server is undergoing maintenance. It'll come back soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Videos – Chouchou live at Memento Mori

2010-08-13T01:52:00.003-04:00

On July 31st 2010, we held our concert at one of our new landmark, Memento mori to celebrate the opening of our all regions. And here's the video of the concert beautifully shot and edited by tadakuma Koba.

Hope you will not forget that day.

Chouchou New Releases

2010-08-03T10:51:00.004-04:00

*Chouchou new releases*

「Niflheimr」「XX」「gravity」「landscape」「torso」

　　
　

*Click the artwork for full-length preview.

It is now available at bandcamp and in-world music store nitairera.

Chouchou Opening Live Concert

2010-07-15T10:40:00.012-04:00

Finally, we can announce the date of our opening concert.

Date: July 31st, 2010
Open: 7:00AM (PDT)
Start: 7:30AM (PDT)
Place: Memento mori at Chouchou V

*Live Streaming*

nitairera（High-quality）

Ustream

*important*

*We'll gradually increase the agent limit up to 60-80 or more depending on the status of the sim. If you can not TP to the location, please wait for a moment and try again.

*The recommended graphic setting is High or Ultra with 512m for draw distance. Depending on your graphic card, you may have difficulties viewing lighting and particle effects during the show. If you experience the situations like this, please try to sit or stand in the front. If that still can't solve the situation, we'll recommend that you also watch the streaming at nitairera to enjoy the show.

*Because of the distance from the seats to the stage, please shout when you speak, so that we can hear you.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with heavy scripts or any lighting and particle effects.

*All the sims will open right after the concert.

Thank you all for waiting so long.

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2010

2010-06-17T00:15:00.008-04:00

2 beautiful short films using Chouchou's "coma" for music are now screening at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2010.

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2010

"The Winter Story"

OHRYS BIRD / 2010 / Japan

"Coma"

Yoshiteru Haruta / 2010 / USA/Japan

It was very exciting for us to see those different images in our song, coma. We felt like we found the new sides of coma. And a few days ago, we've got the invitation for the award ceremony of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2010. We're so honored to be invited to such a great occasion.

Chouchou "Memento mori" Trailer

2010-06-04T13:00:00.004-04:00

Chouchou

"Memento mori"

Opening soon on June, 2010.

This is our official image video of Chouchou's new landmark "Memento mori" at our new region "Chouchou V -The Hierophant-" which is opening in June, 2010.

We're now preparing for the opening concert and expecting it to be at the end of this June. Then we will open all of our 3 regions including "The babel" and "Memento mori" after the concert. Thank you for all the people who waited so long for our comeback. We'll see you soon.

New Release "dawn"

2010-04-12T08:36:00.002-04:00

*in stores now*

"dawn"

It is now available at in-world music store Gyokkodo.

*Important*

We always release two versions for each song. One is MP3 file with normal quality, and the other one is AIFF file with high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than mp3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodou.

2010

2010-01-04T08:03:00.011-05:00

New Releases

2009-12-13T05:37:00.005-05:00

*in stores now*

"ave maria"

"This Endris Night"

New Release "sputnik"

2009-09-27T23:55:00.005-04:00

*in stores now*

"sputnik"

Chouchou "The Babel" Trailer

2009-09-25T13:55:00.004-04:00

Chouchou

"The Babel"

Opening soon on Oct, 2009.

Introducing Chouchou's sounds lab, "The Babel" which is opening soon on Oct, 2009. We created the process of our sound creations in 3D. "The Babel" is like the core of our music and like the the place where our music comes from.

By touching each box, you hear a little sound of Chouchou. You can mix them anyway you like to create your beautiful music. The boxes are classified into the groups called "elements," and each element has a concept with the specific codes and chord progressions. The tower is divided into levels according to elements.

The music of this video was only made with the sounds from "The Babel." And the video below is a tutorial video for how to play the Babel.

Live at Sapporo on Youtube

2009-08-15T05:35:00.005-04:00

Now it's on Youtube.

Chouchou Live Video from Sapporo's 1st Anniversary Event

2009-08-14T04:14:00.015-04:00

Here's our live video from our last performance at sapporo's 1st anniversary event. The video was shot and edited by tadakuma Koba.

At this show, we used many kinds of image videos with the music, so that the audience played the music and media at the same time to get this new visionary world of Chouchou. The video is pretty long and only spoken in Japanese at this time, but we hope you enjoy the music and atmosphere.

And sorry for my crying at the end of the show. I was explaining about our new piano piece, r.i.p. which arabesque composed for his beloved father who recently passed away from brain tumor. His father taught him piano and the beauty of music.

Chouchou New Releases

2009-08-10T11:47:00.020-04:00

*Chouchou new releases*

「TRICKER」「magnolia」「kavka」「r.i.p.」

It is now available at in-world music store Gyokkodo.

*Important*

We always release two versions for each song. One is MP3 file with normal quality, and the other one is AIFF file with high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than mp3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodou.

Chouchou Live at Sapporo's 1st Anniversary Event

2009-08-04T10:21:00.007-04:00

We will perform a music concert at Sapporo SIM for its first anniversary of reopening. Since this is a Japanese event, talkings might be only in Japanese, but we hope you will enjoy the music at least. We will do 4 new pieces at the show, 3 new songs and 1 piano piece.

We'll post the LM below.

Sapporo SIM

We're planning to hold some concerts presented by Chouchou sometime soon. We'll post more information about that when we find out, so please check back again.

Now on iTunes

2009-06-02T07:54:00.009-04:00

Our first albums "INSOMNIA" & "NARCOLEPSY" are now available

at iTunes stores in 22 countries.

Hope our music will be delivered to your heart.

Chouchou on iTunes

Chouchou Album Releases

2009-05-06T11:40:00.009-04:00

Now on Sale

at

GYOKKODOU

We've been working on remastering and remixing all of our music for two months, and now we made them into two albums, "INSOMNIA" and "NARCOLEPSY". All of our songs, espeacially old ones are now beautifully remastered and reborn again. Please check them out.

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You can also buy each song separately if you like, but you will save some money and get a little bonus track "in a drowse" and the booklet of artworks and lyrics if you buy albums at Gyokkodou.

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Also, only in SecondLife you can get free downloading of one of our song, "sign". (MP3 ONLY)

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*Important*

We release two versions for each song and album in SL. One is MP3 with 256kbps/48KHz normal quality, and the other one is AIFF with 48KHz/24bit high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than MP3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodou.

Chouchou Music Radio

2009-05-06T11:27:00.011-04:00

Chouchou Music Radio

You can now listen to our 24/7 music radio via internet.
Click the banner below to go to our online radio station.

New Release "Clouds"

2009-01-08T21:39:00.004-05:00

*in stores now*

"Clouds"

It is now available at Gyokkodo, and it will be available at TOMER RECORDS soon.

*Important*

We've started to release two versions for each song. One is MP3 file with normal quality, and the other one is AIFF file with high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than mp3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodo.

New Year's Greeting from Chouchou

2009-01-03T13:22:00.005-05:00

Happy New Year.

As our new year greetings, we made a very short video with a little music.

dear nobody

In a dream

I was standing in a white room

with an amazingly beautiful dress

and I just kept dancing and twirling

as if that was the only thing I could

all in a drowse

Hope our music will always reverberate in your heart.

January 3rd, 2009

-Chouchou-
arabesque Choche juliet Heberle

New Release "O come, O come, Emmanuel"

2008-12-26T03:36:00.003-05:00

*in stores now*

"O come, O come, Emmanuel"

It is now available at Gyokkodo, and it will be available at TOMER RECORDS soon.

*Important*

We've started to release two versions for each song. One is MP3 file with normal quality, and the other one is AIFF file with high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than mp3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodo.

Chouchou new instrumentals

2008-07-13T21:47:00.012-04:00

*Chouchou new instrumentals*

「coma」「heterotopia」「rafflesia」「eterna」

We will release the instrumental versions (without vocals) of those 4 songs on 15th of July.
Other instrumentals of our previous songs are now on sale.
Instrumental versions are only available at the in-world music store Gyokkodo.

Hope you find the beauties in the true sounds of arabesque.

Chouchou Live at universe 3rd Act.

2008-07-05T14:50:00.009-04:00

We decided to have an addtional live concert at universe for those of you who couldn't attend the first and second Acts.

*Photo by flexagons Villota*

3rd Act. : 7/6(Sun) 8:00am(SLT)
(The sim will open at 7:40am(SLT))

Location: universe in our region Chouchou

*important*

3rd Act. will be the same content and selection of music as the 1st and 2nd Acts. If we could take unlimited amount of people into our region, we'd absolutely do that, but unfortunately, that is not possible. In order to show our performance to more and more people, if those of you who attended our 1st or 2nd Act. can pass their seats to other people, we'll very appreciate it. Thank you for your corporation.

*Please touch the ladder to the universe.

*Our region will be closed for a rehearsal 3hours before the show, and it will reopen at 20 minutes before the show.

*We'll set the agent limit to 40 at the beginning and try to gradualy increase up to 50.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with any lighting and particle effects.

*Set the Enviroment Settings to "Midnight."

We'll see you soon at the universe.

New Release "eterna"

2008-07-02T12:30:00.010-04:00

*in stores now*

"eterna"

It is now available at Gyokkodo, and it will be available at TOMER RECORDS on 6th of July.

*Important*

From now on, we'll release two versions for each song. One is MP3 file with normal quality, and the other one is AIFF file with high quality. AIFF file is a lot larger than mp3 file, and you can only play AIFF with your computer. If you'd like to put it into your ipod, you need to encode it to MP3 file. (It can be easily done by iTune.) When you encode it, we recommend encoding with high bitrate. You may also need appropriate equipments like good speakers or headphones in order to feel the difference between them. AIFF version is only available at Gyokkodo.

Chouchou Live at universe

2008-07-01T02:39:00.003-04:00

We'll do two shows this week at Chouchou sim.

And we're going to release our new song "eterna."

1st Act. : 7/2(wed) 6:00am~(SLT)
2nd Act. : 7/4(fri) 8:00am~(SLT)

Location: universe in our region Chouchou

*important*

1st Act. and 2nd Act. will be the same content and selection of music, so please choose just one of those dates if you're thinking about coming to our show. If we could take unlimited amount of people into our region, we'd absolutely do that, but unfortunately, that is not possible. In order to show our performance to more and more people, if those of you who will attend our 1st act can pass their seats to other people, we'll very appreciate it. Thank you for your corporation.

*Please touch the ladder to the universe.

*Our region will be closed for a rehearsal 3hours before the show, and it will reopen at 20 minutes before the show.

*We'll set the agent limit to 40 at the beginning and try to gradualy increase the number up to 60-70 depending on the status of the sim.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with any lighting and particle effects.

*Set the Enviroment Settings to "Midnight."

We'll see you soon at the universe.

Chouchou Live at As Know As

2008-06-13T18:16:00.009-04:00

Saturday, June 14th 2008

5:00AM(PDT)

Opening live concert at real Japanese fashion brand "As Know As" SIM.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with any lighting and particle effects.

Teleport to As Know As

Chouchou 2nd Act. at Spring Islamey

2008-04-10T00:41:00.004-04:00

Chouchou 2nd Act. at Spring Islamey

Date: April 10th, 2008
Time: 5:00am (PDT)
Location: "Islamey" in our region Chouchou

*important*

It'll be the same content and selection of music as the 1st act on April 4th. If we could take unlimited amount of people into our region, we'd absolutely do that, but unfortunately, that is not possible. In order to show our performance to more and more people, if those of you who attended our 1st act can pass their seats to the people who haven't seen yet, we'll very appreciate it. Thank you for your corporation.

*Please touch the ladder to Islamey.

*Our region will be closed for a rehearsal from 2:30am (PDT) for 2 hours, and it will reopen at 4:30am (PDT).

*We'll set the agent limit to 40 at the beginning and try to gradualy increase the number up to 60-70 depending on the status of the sim.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with any lighting and particle effects.

*Set the Enviroment Settings to "Midnight."

*You can use Chouchou cinematic HUD on concert mode to see our concert more cinematically. You can take the HUD by touching the black flower at the LM point of our region.

We'll see you soon at Islamey.

New Releases

2008-04-04T14:39:00.014-04:00

*in stores now*

"rafflesia"

"heterotopia"

"repose"

*An image piano piece for our region "Chouchou"

Official Video "Chouchou"

*You can play it on your computer and also put it into your iPod.

"Chouchou" is available in Gyokkodo.

"heterotopia" is available in SLT.

"rafflesia"and "repose" are available in Gyokkodo and TOMER RECORDS.

Spring Islamey Opening Concert

2008-04-03T22:23:00.008-04:00

Spring Islamey Opening Concert

Date: April 4th, 2008
Time: 5:00am (PDT)
Location: "Islamey" in our region Chouchou

We'll present our new songs "rafflesia" and "heterotopia" at the concert.

*Please touch the ladder to Islamey.

*Our region will be closed for a rehearsal from 2:00am (PDT) for 2 hours, and it will reopen at 4:00am (PDT).

*We'll set the agent limit to 40 at the beginning and try to gradualy increase the number up to 60-70 depending on the status of the sim.

*For our stage effects, please turn your face light off and detach all the heavy equipments and the attachments with any lighting and particle effects.

*Set the Enviroment Settings to "Midnight."

*You can use Chouchou cinematic HUD on concert mode to see our concert more cinematically. You can take the HUD by touching the black flower at the LM point of our region.

We'll see you soon at Islamey.

"Chouchou" is unlocked

2008-04-03T01:51:00.007-04:00

Hi, guys.
Thank you so much for being patient.
Now our official region "Chouchou" is open to public.
It's all yours.

*Recommended Settings*

"Ultra" for graphics

*How to enjoy our region "Chouchou"*

When you enter the region, touch the black flower for "Chouchou cinematic HUD."

Turn the music on.
It's our new piano piece "repose" composed for the region.

Change your "Sky Preset" to anything you like.
(Although we like "Foggy" and "Good for marriage.")
Lots of beautiful Sky Presets can be downloaded from here.
Many thanks to Torley.

Read the instruction notecard and wear "Chouchou cinematic HUD"

And now, you're good to go. Enjoy.

Spring Islamay will be open tomorrow at our live concert,
so please be a bit more patient for that.

Teleport to "Chouchou"

new video "Chouchou"

2008-04-01T05:06:00.007-04:00

Here's our official video of our region "Chouchou" opening soon on April 3rd, 2008.

"Chouchou"

filmed and music "repose" by arabesque Choche

at region - "Chouchou" created by juliet Heberle + Yuki Aabye

I don't have anything to say.

Just feel the world...

repose

2008-03-31T06:27:00.015-04:00

This is a title of our new piano piece made for our official region "Chouchou"
which is opening soon this week.

We hope you'll find the beauty in the music and the scenery.

Right now, we're working on making image video of our region,
and it should be coming to public tomorrow.
We'll post it here and everywhere.

How to set Chouchou music to your land's music

2008-03-30T22:31:00.002-04:00

To set Chouchou music to your land's music, You need to get "Little Tiara Radio Box" from in-world music store Gyokkodo. It's free.

*How to use the radio box*
1. Rez Little Tiara Radio Box on your land.

2. Choose the types of permission.

3. Touch the crown for the menu.

4. Choose the channel you like.

*Channels*
[Little Tiara1~3] - Podcasting of the latest recording of juliet's radio program "Little Tiara"

[Past] - Podcasting of the past recording of juliet's Japanese radio program "Little Tiara"

[Chouchou] - Chouchou music channel

[Gyokkodo Ar] - In-world Music Store "Gyokkodou" Artists' channel

[Now on Air] - Live radio streaming channel of Radio sapporoSLM

[off] - Turn off the radio box

[reset] - reset the radio box