仮想プラザ Virtual Plaza Guestbook ゲストブック
“It's the music of long-abandoned malls
and solipsistic virtual
spaces.” (1)
"I feel like it's mainly nostalgia for
something we never had, or
something that never happened.
It has that sense of knowledge and
importance that was so wide-spread
before 9/11. I feel like it's
nostalgia for the future that was
destroyed by 9/11." (2)
"The aesthetic of vaporwave is one
of a new virtual paradise, a
virtual plaza if you will in
which we relax in holographic
utopia, under the watchful eye
of the business professionals
at a benefactorial mitsubishi
group corporation."(3)
"I wasn't into the late 90s computer
games as much as my friends,
vaporwave for be brings back
memories of that time's commercial
music and general IN YOUR FACE
art style. It's funny, my mother
had the the weather channel playing
in our house pretty much on a 24/7
loop, it's not wonder my affinity
for the local on the 8s music
rubbed off on me." (4)
"Vaporwave is kind of this distorted
cyberpunk vision of 80s/90s
zeitgeist with a satirical focus
on the period's commercial view of
the future (imagery and themes of
success, ferraris, pop music,
personal computers, the information
age, then economic-giant Japan and
all of its futuristic technological
innovations). I think it
has a certain resonance for people
who grew up in the 80s and 90s
because even if their lives hardly
reflected this, it was imagery
that they were exposed to, and at
least speaking for myself, seeing
it again kind of reminds me of the
'good times' before it became
apparent how ugly and dark this
New Information Age can be."(5)
"Your Platinum Card(TM) is
made of plastic." (6)
"vaporwave is... well- it's fading
90s aesthetics with a good deal of
dreaminess mixed in[...]whenever
you grew up, you lived around
the detritus of the culture of
the time. forget the big things-
political leaders, world affairs,
dance crazes, and classic movies
all belong to history now. they're
part of a larger, shared
consciousness. you have to think
of the little details. the way tv
looked. the way things sounded
and smelled. the patterns and
designs on soda cans, paper cups,
plates, wallpaper. the preset
tunes on casio keyboards. the
layouts of shopping malls. the
little things that you remember
but that history won't. your early
childhood was an intercourse
with that detritus. your memory
of that early childhood, hazy,
disorganized, disjointed, full
of gaps, and a bit prone to running
together at odd angles as it is,
bears the weight of those
almost-but-not-quite forgotten
cultural tokens. they ebb and
flow through your consciousness
in a vague, arbitrary kind of way,
but they have a strange sort of
signifying power because they ring
with the force of a time whose sensation
you can't quite articulate or
quantify. a time that now rests
in your mind the way a dream
would- somehow beyond the bounds of
things, somehow, well... vapory.
so anyway, vaporwave is the
aesthetic rendering of that
feeling with the 90s as a reference
point.[...]if the first conscious
years of your life were spent
during the 90s, then these things
were clashing about all around
you, perhaps only in your
peripheral vision, without you
knowing or caring that someday
they'd be something else than
what they were- that someday
they'd be subtle signifiers of
a slightly bygone era rather
than just paper cups and
keyboards and all the rest.
and therein, i think, lies
the nature of vaporwave- it aims
to capture not just the feel
of our shared 90s childhood
memories (provided that you
grew up in the 90s), but the
very ethereality of that feel." (7)
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(1) mdgraller. “/r/VaporWave - I'm not sure how to describe it, but I love it. Aesthetics and beautiful music.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 January 2015. Web.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/wowthissubexists/comments/2rpueb/rvaporwave_im_not_sure_how_to_describe_it_but_i/>.
(2) David_jay. “Understanding Vaporwave.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 november 2014. Web. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/2ln4t0/understanding_vaporwave/>.
(3) Marv134. “Understanding Vaporwave.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 november 2014. Web. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/2ln4t0/understanding_vaporwave/>.
(4) oscob. “Understanding Vaporwave.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 november 2014. Web. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/2ln4t0/understanding_vaporwave/>.
(5) wordsandwich. “Understanding Vaporwave.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 november 2014. Web. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/2ln4t0/understanding_vaporwave/>.
(6) xploeris. “Understanding Vaporwave.” Reddit. Reddit. 8 november 2014. Web. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/2ln4t0/understanding_vaporwave/>.
(7) windowledge. “Review of Laserdisc Visions by New Dreams Ltd.” Rate Your Music. Rate Your
Music. 2 July 2013. Web. <https://rateyourmusic.com/review?id=54151778>.