Creativity expansion class "Mitaxis Class" by Real Tech Fund
Part 3 expands perception with the theme of "listening to inaudible sounds."

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Euglena Group Co., Ltd. Euglena Investment-specialized venture capital fund "Real Tech Fund" (Representative: Akihiko Nagata) Started the creativity expansion experiment project "Mitaxis" with the theme of "Science & Art" in July 2018, and as the first project, "Mitaxis", a classroom to train the ability to face and express the unknown. Class (Mitaxis Class) ”has been held.
　Each time, we invite people who practice "expression" born from both science and art as lecturers, and offer a series of hands-on programs consisting of lectures and expression work by all participants. Following the 1st "Seeing the invisible (visual)" and the 2nd "Touching the invisible (tactile)", the 3rd will be held under the theme of "Listening to the inaudible sound (hearing)". , The 1st season trilogy is completed here.

　This time, as a lecturer, we welcomed Mr. evala, a musician and sound artist who promotes the sound project "See by Your Ears" that creates a new auditory experience of "seeing with the ears", and the unknown hidden in human perception. We will practice the work to make you realize the potential.

■ Outline of "Mitaxis Class Vol.3"
◎ Event name: "Mitaxis Class Vol.3-Listen to inaudible sounds-"
◎ Date and time: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 19: 00-21: 00 (Reception starts: 18: 30-)
◎ Venue: G-BASE Tamachi 3rd floor, 5-29-11 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
　　　　　　　　　(Euglena Tamachi Office)
◎ Capacity: General recruitment 20 people
◎ Membership fee: 1,000 yen
◎ How to apply: Peatix (Apply from the link below) https://realtech-003.peatix.com/
◎ Time schedule
18: 30- Opening, reception start
19:00 – 19:05 Introduction (Project Representative: Akihiko Nagata)
19:05 – 19:30 See by Your Ears Introduction (evala)
19:30 – 20:40 Work (Collect the sounds of the city and draw a “sound map”)
20:40 – 21:00 Review
* The program is subject to change without notice.

■ Lecturer profile: evala
Musician and sound artist.
Presenting cutting-edge electronic music works, performing installations and concerts at home and abroad. Since 2016, we have been promoting the sound project "See by Your Ears" that creates a new auditory experience of "seeing with your ears." It is highly regarded by various circles as an important work that renews the history of sound art by constructing a phenomenon in which sound behaves like a living thing in the dark. His representative works include "Fox with Big Ears" (Sónar + D, Barcelona 2017), "Our Muse" (ACC, Gwangju 2018), and an acoustic installation "Acoustic Vessel" Odyssey "" by Sony's spatial acoustic technology Sonic Surf VR. SXSW, Austin 2018) etc.
http://evala.jp/

■ Project Representative: Akihiko Nagata | Akihiko Nagata
Representative of Real Tech Fund / Director and CFO of Euglena
Born in an independent private equity fund. In 2008, he became a director of Euglena Euglena, he is in charge of strategy, finance, management business fields that support technology, such as business strategy planning, M & A, financing, capital tie-up, public relations / IR, management department construction, listing on the TSE Mothers / TSE First Section, etc. Familiar. As a representative of the Real Tech Fund, he oversees overall fund management.

■ About the creativity expansion experiment project "Mitaxis"
"Mitaxis" is a combination of "Phototaxis", which is the property of Euglena (Euglena) to move using light as a stimulus source, and "Mi", which is unknown, future, and unexplored. It is a coined word that expresses "sex (orientation toward the unknown)". In today's society, which is undergoing unprecedentedly rapid transformation, many people are exhausted by the flood of information and are surrounded by anxiety and doubts about the future. In such a complicated and uncertain world, in order for each individual to be independent and live in his or her own way, it is necessary to actively face the unknown and visualize a better future.
Realtech Fund investment support venture companies and Euglena Co., Ltd. are "seekers" who boldly challenge the unknown, while artists (artists) are unknown. It can be said that he is an "expressor" who excels in the ability to visualize things. In other words, although they have different abilities and occupations, they have a big commonality: "intention to the unknown = Mitaxis".
The Mitaxis project is a place for experiments to expand people's creativity by learning how to face the unknown that is common to "science" and "art", and "seekers" and "expressors" can share their strengths with each other. By complementing each other, I believe that the way of thinking and expressiveness that will lead a better future will be cultivated.

■ About Real Tech Fund
Our 100% subsidiary of Euglena investment, S MBC Nikko Securities, Ribanesu "Joint Association was founded three companies Euglena in the venture capital fund that SMBC Nikko Ribanesu capital" to manage operations, primarily the investment development of the real-Tech Venture It is the purpose. With a total of 30 participating companies and a fund size of 9.4 billion yen (as of April 2018), it is Japan's largest fund specializing in real tech. We are investing in and nurturing real-tech ventures together with the operating companies that are our investors.
Established in 2015.
(HP: http://www.realtech.fund)

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