The program for the “DICT Music DAO Classics Founding Anniversary Concert” to be held at the Tokyo College of Music TCM Hall on November 18th has been decided!
Link & Innovation Co., Ltd. Press release: November 1, 2025 To Members of the Press The program for the “DICT Music DAO Classics Founding Anniversary Concert,” to be held at the Tokyo College of Music’s TCM Hall on November 18th, has been decided! DICT (operated by Link & Co., Ltd.), a social experiment community for co-creation innovation using Web 3.0/DAO, is based at DICT CUBE TOKYO in Shibuya, Tokyo. Virgo Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), a music publisher spun off from DICT Music DAO Classics (DICT Music Innovation), has decided and released the program for the “DICT Music DAO Classics Founding Commemorative Concert,” to be held at the Tokyo College of Music TCM Hall on November 18, 2025, to commemorate the founding of “DICT Music DAO Classics,” a sandbox community for composers and performers co-creating a new classical music culture.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-c07c4044aab6d958f036837238c76553-1924×2700.jpg ■Some of the pieces premiering this time will be released digitally on November 19th, performed by Arisa Kobayashi Pianist Arisa Kobayashi, who will be performing new pieces by Michiru Oshima, Kosuke Yamashita, Rei Ishizuka, and Kou Sahara at this concert, will pre-record the pieces and release them on Apple Music, Spotify, and other music streaming services on November 19th, the day after the concert. For more details on the pieces, please see the press releases for each piece. 『Prelude～Water Lily』 Michiru Oshima (composer) x Arisa Kobayashi (pianist) x Maria Mimori (Japanese painter) (Press Release) https://img.youtube.com/vi/NekkQTMfjWA/sddefault.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NekkQTMfjWA “Harumoyo” for solo piano (from the piano suite “The Four Seasons”)” “Epilogue 1996 – Piano Solo Edition -” Kosuke Yamashita (composer) x Arisa Kobayashi (pianist) x Tatsuya Ito (designer/photographer) (Press Release) https://img.youtube.com/vi/WvNSvlMbNXg/sddefault.jpg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Lj7VlffZ0 “Piano Sonata No. 1 “Nipponia”” Rei Ishizuka (Composer) x Arisa Kobayashi (Pianist) x Yu-ho Kumagai (Illustrator/Designer) (Press Release) https://img.youtube.com/vi/2TXY18bbuig/sddefault.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TXY18bbuig 『Menuet』 Kou Sahara (Composer) x Arisa Kobayashi (Pianist) x CYON (Illustrator) (Press release)
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■Composer and performers [Composer] Michiru Oshima Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. He has composed music for the TV anime “Fullmetal Alchemist,” the NHK Taiga drama “Tenchi-jin,” the TV drama “Gokusen,” and numerous other films, anime, and dramas. He has won numerous music awards, including the Mainichi Film Award for Best Music, the Japan Academy Award for Best Original Score, and the Animation of the Year Music Award.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-761d2f60eb8172e612ce38491f9f6e04-3900×3900.jpg Kosuke Yamashita Graduated from the Film and Broadcast Music Course (now the Music Media Course) of the Tokyo College of Music, majoring in Composition. His representative works include the NHK morning drama “Hitomi,” the drama “Boys Over Flowers,” the anime “Chihayafuru” and “Dragon Ball DAIMA,” and the Super Sentai series “Boutarou Sentai Don Brothers.” He has also worked on numerous arrangements for broadcasts, including “Untitled Concert.” He is currently a professor at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and an adjunct professor at Tokyo College of Music.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-891bf565220ab2700808497f7fb8894d-3900×3900.jpg Rei Ishizuka Graduated from Tokyo College of Music, majoring in Composition and Conducting (Art Music Course). She has composed the music for the ending songs of the TV anime series “Attack on Titan” and “Wonderful Pretty Cure!”, as well as “The Quintessential Quintuplets,” “The Rain and You,” “Boys and Girls Beyond Earth,” and numerous other anime. Since 2024, she has been continuously releasing solo piano works through DICT Records.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-eac362267cafe10d2cf5af9258755fa3-3900×3900.jpg Ko Sahara Graduated from Tokyo College of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, and the Conservatoire National Supérieure des Musiques de Paris (CNSMDP) First and Second Courses of
Composition. In 2019, he was a composition researcher at the French Institute for Research in Acoustics and Music (IRCAM). He won the Togashi Prize at the 29th Gen-On New Composition Awards. He was selected for the 82nd Japan Music Competition. He is currently a lecturer at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-2f06850acec696a43fb50027ee7836a4-3900×3900.jpg [Performer] Arisa Kobayashi After graduating from the Berlin University of the Arts, Arisa continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She won the Queen of Morocco International Piano Competition, unanimously adjudicating the jury’s decision, and also received the Best Debussy Performer Award. She has also performed chamber music with members of the New York Philharmonic and in a piano quintet with Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Steude. He currently teaches the next generation of musicians at Showa University of Music and other institutions.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-ded062efdb7b6cd64abbc2a1f48d9e86-3900×3900.jpg Kosuke Kikuchi After completing the piano performance course at the Tokyo College of Music and the master’s program at the same
university’s graduate school, he moved to France. He received a diploma in the advanced performance course at the École Normale Alfredo Cortot Conservatoire in Paris and further studied in the perfection course. He has won first or high prizes at the Kitamoto Piano Competition, the Japan Performers’ Competition, the Saitama Piano Competition, and the Marronnier 21 Concert Hall.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-4701444381909e437e89f4d709d196a8-3900×3900.jpg [Panel Discussion Speakers] Shinya Yamamoto Serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, and social physicist. He serves as CEO of Link & Innovation, Inc., Virgo, Inc., and numerous other companies. He is also engaged in educational activities and various research projects as a specially appointed, invited, and visiting professor and part-time lecturer at multiple universities, including Tohoku University, Osaka University, Kobe University, and Hosei University. His specialties are Chemistry (BSc), Molecular Biology (MSc), and Technology and Innovation Management (PhD). He is also the founder and representative of the social experiment community “DICT.” Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-87160e4fa0392db9a4b726e942b8ac0f-3900×3900.jpg YU-HO Kumagai He has a wide range of production experience, including web design, flyers and other printed material design, app UI design, product packaging design, logo design, music artwork production, video production, and various illustrations, and has received commissions from major companies. He has been responsible for many of the album jacket images for DICT Music DAO Classics since its early days.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-3e9f67651077ce754159d3fad69a1f9e-2400×2400.jpg Takeki Mitome Graduated from the Tokyo College of Music, majoring in Composition and Conducting (Art Music Course). He has produced numerous pieces, including music for the Ministry of the Environment’s International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation promotional video and music for the OECD Japan Joint Research Project. He also researches the effects of sound and music on the human mind and body. He is a director of Virgo Inc. and SoundBrain Inc., a researcher at the Tohoku University Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, an advisor to the International Center for Pre-Disease Medicine at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, a Tokushukai Medical Corporation, and a researcher in the Department of General Basic Medical Research at the Shonan Institute for Advanced Medical Science.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-130623f12726baaa2e7eec5a69133f68-3900×3900.jpg ■Performance Details Date and Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Doors open at 6:00 PM / Performance begins at 6:30 PM (Ends at 8:30 PM) Venue: Tokyo College of Music, TCM Hall (
https://www.tokyo-ondai.ac.jp/about/campus ） Venue Address: 1-9-1 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Venue Access: 5-minute walk from Nakameguro Station or Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line / 14-minute walk from Ebisu Station on the JR Lines Ticket Price: Adults ¥3,000 / Students ¥2,000 (same-day tickets are ¥500 more)
*Undergraduate, graduate, and vocational school students are also eligible for admission with student tickets. *Customers who purchase student tickets must present proof of current student status, such as a student ID, upon entry. *If advance tickets are sold out, same-day tickets will not be sold. Organizer: Virgo Co., Ltd. Sponsored by: Tokushukai Medical Corporation Shonan Kamakura General Hospital | NPO Association for Healing Medical Care | BLANC Co., Ltd. | Sunphonics Co., Ltd. | Link & Co., Ltd. Innovation Special Supporter: Tadashi Sato (President and CEO, DEECH Co., Ltd.) Powered by DICT Purchase tickets here: https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/4388670001-P0030001 Contact: support@fractal-dict.com (Virgo, Inc.)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/142960/55/142960-55-a012c44a892a2835a474b60c9f36a635-1909×2700.png ■Message from the Performance (Executive Producer: Shinya Yamamoto) As the world undergoes a major transformation from a society integrated through centralization to one integrated through autonomous
decentralization, the structure of society, the way we work, and the way we live are undergoing major changes. Music is no exception, and I believe we need new mechanisms for creating music that are in line with the times, systems for utilizing it, and a change in the mindset of the musicians involved. As a social entrepreneur, I have been involved in the founding of over 20 companies. As a social physicist and innovation management expert, I have also been involved in building startup ecosystems at universities and in the private sector. In particular, my work with the social experiment community “DICT,” founded in 2022, demonstrated that autonomously managing the actions of each individual based on their intrinsic motivation and curiosity can produce significant results. Unpredictable content was created one after another at an unforeseen speed. The recently announced launch of “DICT Music DAO Classics” is based on the results of past DICT experiments and theories of innovation management. It is a project that grows and develops through the excitement of everyone involved in the musical cycle, including composers, performers, designers, and listeners. Please join us in this “sandbox” where a new musical culture is born!
■The Significance of Launching This Project (Producer Mitome Takeki) We are reprinting the text regarding the significance of launching this project that will be included in the program distributed on the day of the performance. △▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼ DICT Music DAO DMDc Classics (Dikt Music Dao Classics, hereafter abbreviated as “DMDc”) was launched with the aim of resolving several challenges facing the classical music world (and, in part, the entertainment industry as a whole). The first challenge is that while wonderful works are commissioned and produced every year, there are few opportunities for them to be performed again. To address this issue, we decided to launch a community that brings together composers and performers, fostering a cycle of creation and utilization of music. In order to create this “cycle of utilization,” the “mechanism” for it is also important. We grant community members the “performance rights” for all works continuously produced by this community, and we also provide the sheet music at a low price (currently a flat rate of 110 yen). This will first encourage performers to pick up the sheet music and increase the likelihood that they will perform in front of an audience. By the way, “performance rights” refer to the copyright subsidy associated with performing music in public, such as at concerts or events, whether paid or free. Until now, most new songs have been managed by JASRAC (Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers), which required an application to JASRAC and payment of royalties before performance. However, when community members perform our managed music, they can do so without anyone’s permission, just as they would when performing the works of Bach or Beethoven. In addition, community members receive benefits such as access to a members-only site where they can receive performance advice from composers themselves, access to members-only social media, and the right to participate in members-only in-person events. In addition, we have a system in place where you can earn points by uploading videos of your performance of our music to social media and video-sharing services that have comprehensive agreements with JASRAC, such as YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, helping to reach even more people. These points can be earned by purchasing sheet music or renewing your membership, and we plan to award them for various contributions. They can be used to get discounts on various service fees, and we also plan to grant additional privileges according to the points you hold. In addition, we have adopted a hybrid copyright management system in which most copyright subsidiaries other than “performance rights” are entrusted to JASRAC, which also benefits composers by promoting the use of their works. The second reason is that “in a commercial world, there is often a divergence between the kind of work labels want to create and the kind of work artists want to create.” To solve this problem, we at DMDc have devised a system that prioritizes artists’ curiosity and intrinsic motivation when creating their works. First, regarding this second issue, it’s said to be a problem not just in the music industry, but in all entertainment industries. For example, in the film industry, production costs per film have skyrocketed, making every film a “must-see” (a must-see). This leads to films being chosen based on past successes that most people will consider “good.” Actors are prioritized based on the number of social media followers they have rather than acting ability or aptitude. There’s also a tendency to collaborate with as many companies as possible. In these
circumstances, screenwriters, actors, and even directors involved in a film often aren’t allowed to stick to the direction they believe in when it comes to production. DMDc does not impose deadlines on composers (who are pre-certified by us). We also do not provide any instructions regarding the direction or specifications of the work. You can compose whenever you like, in your field of expertise, however you like. However, we ask that you keep in mind the following two basic concepts:
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上記2項目は特定の音楽の方向性を示すものではなく、人によっても時代によっても解釈が異なると考えていますが、コミュニティに参加する演奏家が楽しめて、それを聴いてくださるリスナーの皆様にも楽しんでいただけるものであるならば、音楽コンテンツとして利益を循環させ、作曲家並びに演奏家の自立を助ける核となるものになり得ると考えています。
また、これまでの音楽レーベルは、制作費を全額負担する代わりにその収益は（著作権印税を除きほとんどの場合）すべて音楽レーベルのものでした。この方式では、先ほどの映画の例と同じように、ファンを多く持っている「売れそうな」演奏家に、「売れそうな」曲を演奏してもらうことになり、また制作できるタイトル数も厳選されるため、まずこの土俵に上がることのハードルがとんでもなく高いのです。
我々の場合は、一部前払いのギャランティの設定もありますが、基本は売上金の継続的な分配によってこれを作曲家や演奏家、さらにはアートワークを担当するイラストレーターのギャランティとしています。当然スタジオ代等の経費は当社が負担しているので参加されるアーティストが金銭的に損をするということはありませんが、売れなければほとんどノーギャラ、しかし売れれば継続的に収益を得ることができるという仕組みです。
これによりレーベルである我々の負担する制作費が抑えられ、代わりに制作できる作品数が増え、多くのアーティストに参加のチャンスを提供できることになります。DMDcでは、若いアーティストや、実力があるのにリリースの機会に恵まれなかったアーティストが輝ける機会を創出したいと考えています。
三つ目は「演奏家とレパートリーのあり方」についての課題です。J-POPの歌手を思い浮かべてみてください。彼らは歌の上手さで評価が決まるでしょうか？コンクールの優勝歴がないとデビューできないですか？
クラシックの器楽奏者は幼少から厳しい競争にさらされ、これが一生続いていくというのが一般的と言えるでしょう。非常に辛い世界です。しかしJ-POPの歌手たちは歌の上手さ以上に、どれだけ良い曲（レパートリー）と出会えたかでその出世が決まります。クラシックでもJ-POPの歌手のように自身のレパートリー創出に力を入れ、確固たる地位を築いた方々が多くいらっしゃいますが、なかなか簡単なことではないでしょう。
DMDcでは多種多様な器楽の為のレパートリーを創出することで、演奏者の皆さんの選択肢を増やしたいと考えています。現在は効率化の観点からピアノソロのみを制作していますが、これから様々な楽器の独奏曲や室内楽曲、声楽曲、先々には管弦楽曲も制作していきたいと考えています。また、現在のピアノ曲を他の楽器編成にアレンジして演奏していただく場合も当コミュニティの会員であればJASRACへの利用申請が不要です（一部注意楽曲有り）。ピアノ以外の演奏者の皆様のご参加も心よりお待ちしております。
上記の仕組みやコンセプトから我々は、特に演奏家の皆さんの自走を支援し、我々自身も、補助金ありきではない、自走できる音楽団体でありたいと考えています。我々は「売れる作品」を目指しませんが、みなさんそれぞれが「良い」と信じるものは、長期目線では必ず評価の対象となる「売れる作品」となる可能性が高いとも信じています。
そして、商業主義を排して長期目線で個々の内発的動機によってコンテンツを継続的に制作し、この利活用を推進することで、これは「新しいクラシック音楽文化」として醸成され、10年後、50年後、100年後にも演奏され、聴かれるコンテンツになると信じています。 △▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼
[About Virgo Inc.] Virgo Inc. is one of the companies established by DICT in 2023. In addition to music publishing and operating a music label (DICT Records), the company also operates a book label, plans and manages events, provides talent management, and provides video production services. Representative: Representative Director: Shinya Yamamoto Headquarters: DICT CUBE TOKYO, 1-44-4 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Corporate website: https://www.virgo-all-creation.com/ 当リリースの詳細について automatically, so please do not reply.