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Shortly before his death this year, the iconic Japanese composer worked on mixed-reality concert, Kagami – featuring new music, 48 cameras and magic glasses for the audience
It’s 1984, and Ryuichi Sakamoto is riding around town with filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard as she shoots Tokyo Melody, a portrait of the Japanese composer at the height of his fame. Between half-smiles and cigarettes, he ruminates on art and technology, answers oui and hai to unheard questions, then sits down at the Fairlight CMI digital audio workstation. “This is time. I’m making a loop.” He scribbles something on the screen and points to the image: an undulating wave of green. “In fact,” he hesitates, “… it’s more complicated.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto made a lasting impression on music, now his work lives on through French six-piece Asynchrone.
A selection of solo works by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto have been gathered on a new Milan Records compilation, ‘Travesía’.
Across a career of seemingly endless collaboration and experimentation, a singular voice – and sound – remains