Ryuichi Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of many first musicians to include digital manufacturing into standard songcraft, has died on the age of 71.
Sakamoto died on March 28 after a multi-year battle with most cancers, in line with an announcement revealed on his web site Sunday. “We would like to share one of Sakamoto’s favorite quotes,” the assertion learn. “‘Ars longa, vita brevis.’ Art is long, life is short.”
The Japanese composer had an exceptionally wide-ranging profession: he was by turns a synth-pop idol, the composer of each sweeping movie scores and quiet, light sound environments, and a collaborator of such artists as David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Bernardo Bertolucci.
As a member of Japan’s massively influential band Yellow Magic Orchestra and as a solo artist, he was a grandfather of digital pop music, making songs that influenced early hip-hop and techno.
Born on January 17, 1952, Sakamoto loved a culturally wealthy childhood; his father was the editor for such postwar Japanese novelists as Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. He started taking piano classes when he was 6 years outdated, and later began writing his personal music. As an adolescent, he turned enamored of the work of Claude Debussy — a composer who himself had been impressed by Asian musical aesthetics, together with that of Japan.
In 1983, he acted alongside David Bowie in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, directed by Nagisa Oshima. Sakamoto additionally wrote the film’s rating, his first.
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