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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ~ Jean Baudrillard

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2007/2012, Sapporo-shi, Japan

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク?) is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology. The name of the character comes from a fusion of the Japanese for first (初 hatsu), sound (音 ne) and future (Miku (ミク) sounds like a nanori reading of future, 未来, normally read as "mirai"]), referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series".

Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku

She was the second Vocaloid to be sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid

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to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as a projection.

After acquiring the Vocaloid 2 speech synthesis engine from Yamaha, Crypton Future Media began to develop their third Vocaloid. Miku Hatsune's voice was created by taking vocal samples from the voice actress Saki Fujita at a controlled pitch and tone. These different samples all contained a single Japanese phonic which when strung together would create full words and eventually phrases. The pitch of the samples was to be altered by the synthesizer engine itself and was constructed into a keyboard style instrument within the Vocaloid 2 program.

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Crypton released the first of their "Character Vocal Series", Hatsune Miku, on August 31, 2007. Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "An android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost".

Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku

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Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku in Concert

In August 2010, over 22,000 original songs had been written for Hatsune Miku. Later reports confirmed that she had 100,000 songs in 2011 to her name.

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Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku in Concert

As a virtual idol, Hatsune Miku performed her first "live" concert during Animelo Summer Live at the Saitama Super Arena on August 22, 2009.

Miku also performed her first overseas live concert on November 21, 2009, during Anime Festival Asia (AFA) in Singapore. On March 9, 2010, Miku's first solo live performance titled "Miku no Hi Kanshasai 39's Giving Day" was opened at the Zepp Tokyo in Odaiba, Tokyo. Miku performed in the United States on July 2, 2011 at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live during the 2011 Anime Expo in Los Angeles. The concert followed the same format as the previous "39's Giving Day" concert.

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Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku in Concert

Here a link where you can see Hatsune Miku in concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_RVLOsUW6U

Here an explanation on the whole thing: http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us.jsp

Here the article with the news of her retirement: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../hatsune-miku-japan_n...