![]() ![]() This week Professor Cathy Duffy recommends her movie picks that date back to the 1980s and are classics in their own way. Here is the latest entry in the continuing series of weekly faculty/staff recommendations begun by Carol Sabbar. Each week, they will feature three suggested films and tell you how, and where you can get them. ![]() In 2017 - three years into a publicly acknowledged fight with throat cancer - Sakamoto released a lush ambient album called async he continued to make music until the very end.Not only does Hedberg Library have a variety of DVDs for checkout, they also have online video resources. Sakamoto also partnered with visual artists, including Nam June Paik and Shiro Takatani, collaborating with the latter for the 1999 multimedia opera, LIFE. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, he collaborated with a wide array of international musicians, including Thomas Dolby, Youssou N'Dour, Iggy Pop, Jaques Morelenbaum, Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) and an especially frequent partner, singer-songwriter and experimental composer David Sylvian. He also wrote the scores for Pedro Almodovar's High Heels in 1991, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel in 2006 and The Revenant in 2015, among others.Īs Sakamoto's career matured, his interest in aesthetic and intellectual exploration grew. Sakamoto went on to score such films as Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) - for which he won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy, along with co-composers David Byrne and Chinese composer Cong Su - as well as Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky in 1990, for which he also won a Golden Globe. At his initial meeting with Oshima, Sakamoto told The Guardian in 2000, he asked to write the movie's music - marking the start of a long and notable career as a film composer. Sakamoto also wrote the movie's score, his first. In 1983, he acted alongside David Bowie in Merry Christmas, Mr. But you know, some feeling, some atmosphere, or sense of sound is a little bit Asian, maybe 25, 30 percent." As a teenager, he became enamored of the work of Claude Debussy - a composer who himself had been inspired by Asian musical aesthetics, including that of Japan.Īs Sakamoto told Weekend Edition in 1988, "I think my music is based on a very Western system, because there's a beat, there's a melody, there's harmony. He began taking piano lessons when he was 6 years old, and later started writing his own music. The Japanese composer had an exceptionally wide-ranging career: he was by turns a synth-pop idol, the composer of both sweeping film scores and quiet, gentle sound environments, and a collaborator of such artists as David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Bernardo Bertolucci.Īs a member of Japan's hugely influential band Yellow Magic Orchestra and as a solo artist, he was a grandfather of electronic pop music, making songs that influenced early hip-hop and techno.īorn on January 17, 1952, Sakamoto enjoyed a culturally rich childhood his father was the editor for such postwar Japanese novelists as Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. "'Ars longa, vita brevis.' Art is long, life is short." "We would like to share one of Sakamoto's favorite quotes," the statement read. Sakamoto died on March 28 after a multi-year battle with cancer, according to a statement published on his website Sunday. Ryuichi Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of the first musicians to incorporate electronic production into popular songcraft, has died at the age of 71. Ryuichi Sakamoto posing for a portrait in Paris in 1996.
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