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Korg DS-10 Expo 2009 in Tokyo: report

Last Sunday afternoon was the Korg DS-10 Expo 2009 in Tokyo event, held at Shibuya Axxcis. The promotional event featured various musicians doing performances that used the Korg DS-10, a software synthesizer for Nintendo DS.

We dropped by for a little while to especially check out Hosaka Akane's short set, the result of a recent challenge to use the DS-10 for the first time to make music. She played a very cute song (hear below on YouTube) of her style.

She was followed notable performances we caught were one of Simongar Mobile (サイモンガー・モバイル) with his crazy disco feel and odd looks, he was really entertaining!

Another unexpected one was Cherry-san(?), an older member of the audience who was already a legend from having showed up at a previous event. He took out a lot of gear from his bag to play a kind of messy but hilarious set, fearlessly playing his two DS-10's pushing quite hard on the screens with his fingers! (Sometimes he even attempted to push buttons on the upper screen, provoking a lot of laughter.)