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| | Isao Tomita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Isao Tomita (冨田 勲; Tomita Isao, born April 22, 1932), is a renowned New Age Music and electronic music composer. | | | Tomita has performed a number of outdoor "Sound Cloud" concerts, with speakers surrounding the audience in a "cloud of sound". | | | Tomita was born in Tokyo and spent early childhood with his father in China. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isao_Tomita
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| | Japanorama.com: Isao Tomita & Electronic Music |
| | Born in 1932 in Tokyo, Isao Tomita (Tomita Isao in Japanese) was an established composer of conventional classical music until he was captivated by Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach, a 1968 album containing synthesized interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach. | | | The first results of Tomita's experimentation the infinite timbres of the Moog III analog synthesizer was the bestselling 1974 album Snowflakes Are Dancing (Japanese title: Tsuki no Hikari), a collection of Tomita's synthesized, multilayer interpretations of some of Claude Debussy's most enchanting melodies. | | | Subsequent Tomita interpretations of classical favorites included an album of Gustav Holst's Planets and a 1975 album of Igor Stravinsky's Firebird. |
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http://www.japanorama.com/tomita.html
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| | Tomita - Biography |
| | Tomita remains at the top of his profession as he celebrates over 40 years in music. | | | Tomita has been involved with musical events throughout the world such as his 1984 'Mind of the Universe' concert in Linz, Austria which drew 80,000 people. | | | Tomita virtually abandoned analogue with the acquisition of his custom-built, one-of-a-kind Casio Cosmo system around 1984, although for his new recording 'Bach Fantasy', he has revisited his old analogue instruments, with digital sampling devices being used to recreate the sounds of old. |
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http://www.isaotomita.net/biography_one.html
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| | Tomita - Kosmos: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | This is one of the strongest albums in Tomita [+]'s discography. | | | Kosmos [+] is a slick album of those works that translate well to Tomita [+]'s spacescapes and his visionary style. | | | Tomita - Kosmos: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more |
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http://www.music.com/release/kosmos/1
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| | Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing |
| | This is Tomita's first album of synthesizer arrangements of classical music, and it's one of his best. | | | This album was a big success when it was released, and led to many more works by Tomita in a similar vein. | | | Tomita's 1974 album features synthesized realizations of Debussy classics. |
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http://www.synthtopia.com/music_review/Tomita-SnowflakesareDanci.html
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| | Classical Net Review - RCA - "High Performance" II |
| | Debussy's music is the hanger upon which Tomita drapes a universe of sounds. | | | Debussy mastered the piano and all of its colors so well that it was daring of Tomita to arrange this music for a synthesizer and other electronic gizmos. | | | Tomita doesn't bury his Japanese background, and Debussy's music is characterized by an Asian economy and sensitivity to nuance, so the combination of the two styles works very well. |
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http://www.classical.net/~music/recs/reviews/r/rca63591a.html
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| | Rachmaninoff's Vocalise |
| | Isao Tomita and "The Plasma Symphony Orch." Wolfram Huschke, cellist/Dieter Huschke, pianist. | | | Another view of Vocalise is the electronic one of Isao Tomita, producing weird, ethereal sounds that some might find of interest—I do not. | | | It is unfortunate that Clara Rockmore's haunting performance on the theramin (with pianist Nadia Reisenberg) couldn't have been included; you can find that on Delos (CD 1014). |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/vocalise.htm
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| | Dark Star Audio - Gig Reviews - Isao Tomita - Royal Festival Hall, London - 22 June, 1999 |
| | Tomita was almost my first introduction to the world of electronic music: back in the 70's, my mother had a tape of 'Snowflakes are Dancing', a tape of synthesized classics, and I loved it to death. | | | The first half showcased this well, with Tomita 'playing' (in the same sense a DJ could be said to 'play') a space fantasy loosely based on Holst's Planet Suite. | | | In the final moments, 'cherry blossom' fluttered down from the ceiling of the auditorium onto the musicians below - and that beautiful image, combining with the music and the visuals, is the one that I'll take away and treasure. |
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http://www.darkstarorg.demon.co.uk/gig3.htm
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| | MTV.com - Tomita |
| | Tomita's first album, 1974's Snowflakes Are Dancing, electrified the Japanese public and even translated to an American classical audience, where it was nominated for four Grammy awards. | | | After graduation in 1955, Tomita began composing film, television and theater music. | | | Tomita began incorporating digital synth and early MIDI setups with 1982's Grand Canyon, and completely gutted his studio during the next two years during the transition from analogue to digital with his Casio Cosmo system. |
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http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/tomita/bio.jhtml
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| | Amazon.com: Tomita's Greatest Hits: Music |
| | But Tomita is very unique and is very enjoyable to listen to. | | | A big box set of every classical Tomita album would be even better. | | | Tomita is still living, perhaps, he can grace us with Camille Saint-Saens' "Organ Symphony" or "The Carnival of the Animals" electronically interpreted. |
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http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003EO5?v=glance
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| | Kimba The White Lion Links! |
| | Tomita wrote the original music for the Kimba TV series, and conducted the Japan Philharmonic for the soundtrack recording sessions. | | | This CD contains the music Isao Tomita wrote for the movie; it does not contain the song heard over the end credits ("Wind Song", a.k.a. | | | Isao Tomita CDs and DVDs for sale at CDJapan. |
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http://www.kimbawlion.com/links.htm
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| | The Planets on DVD - MovieWeb |
| | World-class musician, Isao Tomita's soundtrack, based on Gustav Holst's popular musical suite "The Planets" is the stunning backdrop for actual outer space photographs taken by U.S. and Soviet spacecraft, fantastic computer animation and dazzling special effects. | | | Region 0In 1916, Gustav Holst, a composer of music and self-admitted mystic, wrote a brilliant orchestral suite entitled "The Planets." Sixty years later, internationally renowned keyboard artist and composer Isao Tomita created a highly popular electronic version of the Holst suite. | | | Now, award-winning director Don Barrett has chosen "The Tomita Planets" for the soundtrack of this musical video grand tour of the Solar System. |
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http://movieweb.com/dvd/dvd.php?014381407624
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (from Tomita's later Pictures at an Exhibition album) is not as successful, being somewhat fussy and self-conscious. | | | Combining technical wizardry, judicious musicianship, and boundless imagination, Tomita transforms Debussy's piano miniatures into sonic head-trips. | | | The CD booklet tells us nothing about Debussy's compositions, giving us instead highly detailed descriptions of Tomita's equipment that only geeks could appreciate. |
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http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=1364
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| | RAVEL Bolero (Various versions; BMG/RCA) - INKPOT |
| | I have to tell you, three minutes into Tomita's effort, and I felt like I was trapped in a lift and attacked by this evil sadistic music. | | | Also weighing in at seven minutes is the renowned (or infamous, depending on your tastes) Isao Tomita, who does a pretty far-out ten-minute synth cover. | | | Next to follow was The Ave Maria Album (BMG 09026-63260-2), with renditions of you-know-what by luminaries such as Lanza, Caruso and Domingo. |
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http://inkpot.com/classical/bolero_bmg.html
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| | Isao Tomita |
| | Often regarded as the godfather of synthesized music in Japan, and highly renowned in the field worldwide, Isao Tomita started his musical career after graduating from the Keio University in 1955. | | | During this time, Tomita discovered, and embraced, synthesized music. | | | Thankfully, Tomita's work on the film was regarded highly enough that it was eventually released on soundtrack; in fact, it has been released several times, even as late as 2001. |
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http://www.tohokingdom.com/web_pages/staff/isao_tomita.htm
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| | Electronica History MetaFilter |
| | My dad was a fan of Tomita and Carlos, and passed on the passion for electronic music to me via 8-track tape. | | | One of my earliest memories of electronic music in the 1970s was an elementary school music teacher who was really into Wendy Carlos' and Isao Tomita's early arrangements of classical works for synthesizer. | | | Of course, electronic music history goes back to the 1920s with the theremin developed as a classical instrument. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40967
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| | A collection of Kimba music. |
| | Words and music by Toriro Miki, arranged by Isao Tomita. | | | Maybe some day some nice person will translate the lyrics for me. Music written by Isao Tomita, lyrics by Masaki Tsuji. | | | Same melody as written by Isao Tomita for the original Japanese closing theme. |
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http://www.kimbawlion.com/audio.htm
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| | Bach Fantasy by Isao Tomita at jsbach.org |
| | The new CD from Tomita titled `Bach Fantasy' has been released in Japan. | | | The first three tracks of this album are so terrible I had to wonder if this was the amazing Tomita I remember from the 70's. | | | But then things improve with track 5 and it sounds very much like the old Tomita of lush synths and spacial ambience. |
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http://www.jsbach.org/tomitabachfantasy.html
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| | Rca Red Seal Items |
| | Tomita Planets and Kosmos red seal 2 record LP vinyl RCA | | | ISAO TOMITA- SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING on RCA RED SEAL NM! | | | ISAO TOMITA- LIVE AT LINZ,1984 on RCA RED SEAL NM-! |
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http://unitpulsetheory.com/rcaredseal.html
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| | Net Search: isao |
| | Isao Takahata is a long-time colleague of Miyazaki and another leading head of Studio Ghibli. | | | Born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan, he is a long-term colleague of Hayao Miyazaki and co-head at Studio Ghibli. | | | They developed and implemented the ISAO enabling the creation of the unique data set... |
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http://www.net.net/search.asp?Keywords=isao
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| | Catastrophe 1999 / The War In Space |
| | It is also sought after by Tomita fans for the LP version of "Catastrophe 1999", though a CD of the complete mono soundtrack of that film was later released on the VAP label in 1996. | | | As far as I know, there has never been an individual CD release of "The War in Space", which may partially account for this disc's rarity. | | | The mono and stereo versions of both films were finally collected (in remastered form) on 2001's "Champion Festival" box, also on VAP. |
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http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/VICL5080.htm
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| | Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site. This is about Isao Tomita, Van Dyke Parks and the keyboard obsession |
| | Tomita on the reverse of the LP cover proves himself worthy of other celebrators of the body chained to the force of technology. | | | Isao Tomita, Van Dyke Parks and the keyboard obsession. | | | Instead 'He Loved Him Madly' goes deeper, with reimagined themes sitting alongside tantalizing fragments of recognizable music, floating and twisting round until they attach themselves to something new, not a tribute record in the laboured sense but more tenuous, refracted through loss, tentatively reassembled in the face of absence. |
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http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/pre-2001/mountain.html
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| | Music Reviews |
| | "The Mind of the Universe", Isao Tomita's 1984 Live at Linz performance, is an acoustic tour-de-force of classical music that caused me to wear out several copies of the cassette, and at least one copy of the vinyl (remember when vinyl was more than just a fetish?). | | | Music Review: Isao Tomita's "Live at Linz 1984" |
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http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/karen/musicreview10.htm
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| | LECH - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick |
| | About music type: well, in SoundClick is as 'New Age', but this music is rather 'progressive electro-classic' or simple: 'electronic music' (like Isao Tomita, Vangelis style). | | | for fans of: Star Wars (John Williams), Isao Tomita, Ennio Morricone, Vangelis, Koto, Kitaro, J.M. Jarre, Richard Clayderman, Jerry Goldsmith | | | I'm musician, sound engineer and programmer from Poland. |
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http://www.soundclick.com/lech
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| | Grapesoda.Radio |
| | Isao Tomita - Goin' Home - Fisher-Dvorak / Symphony #9 (5:31) | | | Isao Tomita - Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: Fifth Movement - Mahler (4:10) | | | Isao Tomita - Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity - Holst / The Planets (2:09) |
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http://www.grapesoda.com/playlist.html
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| | Tomita - Planets - Groove Unlimited |
| | Tomita came along and challenged the status quo as to what comprised an actual instrument and posed the question as to what was music anyway. | | | Music composed by Holst called The Planets electronically performed by Isao Tomita. | | | Technology moves faster all the time and although this record may sound a bit dated, it was fascinating in its initial run. |
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http://www.groove.nl/cd/2/22630.html
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