The experimental short film Soft Pong Inari was crowd-sourced - it was produced from pre-existing photos of Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto taken by dozens of photographers, publicly available for re-use with modification under a creative commons license. The film explores how multiple viewpoints can converge to a collective sense of place and atmosphere. The sound track was composed and performed in one live-take by Palle Dahlstedt, using custom made electronics and chance algorithms, combined with digital wavetable synthesis and experimental time/pitch algorithms. Soft Pong Inari is part of an on-going collaboration between Canadian/Scottish photographer, media artist and researcher professor Michael Lyons, and Swedish composer, sound artist and researcher Palle Dahlstedt, around new ways of producing audio-visual art. The title of the film comes from the original title of the sound track, “Soft Pong Study” and the name of the famous Shinto shrine Fushimi Inari Taisha, in Fushimi, South of Kyoto, Japan. It is the main temple of the Inari Shinto sect, and it is known for its endless series of Tori, orange portals, which line the trails up the mountain to a series of sub-shrines. Soft Pong Inari has been selected for and screened at a series of experimental film festivals around the world, and more screenings are scheduled for 2015. Duration: 2’05” Michael Lyons is a professor of Image Arts and Science at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. His interest in experimental music dates to childhood backyard percussive improvisations, which were not consistently appreciated by the neighbours. Michael studied classical guitar at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal. In the late 70s he experimented with home-made analogue noise-making circuits. He has subsequently conducted research in experimental and theoretical biophysics, computational neuroscience, pattern recognition, cognitive science, and interactive media arts. Michael co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. Palle Dahlstedt is a composer, improviser and researcher from Stockholm, since 1994 living in Göteborg, Sweden. With composition degrees from the Academies of Malmö and Göteborg, he is currently the main lecturer in electronic music composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. Also, he is Docent/Associate professor in computer-aided creativity, performing extensive research in novel performance and improvisation techniques for electronic music, and in computer models of artistic creative processes. From 2015, he is also Obel Professor in Art & Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Since 1990, he has been interested in Japanese traditional arts and music, and Noh in particular. During his many stays in Kyoto, he has collaborated extensively with Japanese actors, dancers and musicians.