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  YouTube - Isao Tomita the Earth--------
The other is a chain smoking gang of sequencer driven germans who put out a LOT of improvised loooong records, where about 10% were brilliant and the rest repetitive rubbish.
Tomita is a genius.I love his Debussy versions
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  Isao Tomita - Music Downloads - Online
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.
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.
Tomita was also awarded the honorary presidency of the Japan Synthesizer Programmers Association.
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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.
Tomita stayed on as a composer at Toei, exclusively working for the company, up until the late 1960's when the composer branched out to other movie firms.
The movie was a box office success, but received unwanted attention from a member of the "No Nukes" group, who found the radiation born mutants in the film to be offensive to survivors of Hiroshima.
www.tohokingdom.com /staff/isao_tomita.htm   (418 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Tomita Planets: Music: Gustav Holst   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Isao plays what sounds like an RMI electric harpsichord, pipe organ, string synthesizer (I think), in addition to the mini-moog synthesizer, which is an instrument that seems to generate an infinite number of sounds, at least in his hands.
Isao injects his own personality into each piece, so I found the listening experience to be very interesting, and at times pretty funny (he has a great sense of humor).
Tomita's version gives me something the orchestra does not, and it is kind of difficult to explain.
www.amazon.com /Tomita-Planets-Gustav-Holst/dp/B000003F1P   (1810 words)

  
 Isao Tomita Information
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲; Tomita Isao, born April 22, 1932), is a renowned electronic music composer.
Tomita was born in Tokyo and spent early childhood with his father in China.
Tomita has performed a number of outdoor "Sound Cloud" concerts, with speakers surrounding the audience in a "cloud of sound".
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 Isao Tomita
Seventy-five years after Claude Debussy's compositions, Japanese musician Isao Tomita collected a small mountain of electronic equipment and reinterpreted Debussy with startling success on Snowflakes Are Dancing.
Tomita was brash enough to take such an approach.
Tomita did not chain himself to the instrumentation in common use when Debussy was alive, and so he renewed the spirit of creative innovation and experiment Debussy embodied.
www.keithpurtell.com /kthings/body_tomita.htm   (218 words)

  
 YouTube - Isao Tomita the girl--------------
Isao is a common name to me since Okinawa in the 70's This album Snowflakes are Dancing by Tomita.
Isao Tomita influenced many of my friends to the possibilities of synthesized equipment for music.
Tomita certainly has that effect sort of grabs you then your hooked forever brilliant music.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=v4YlPVg_mBI   (687 words)

  
 Tomita - The Planets
In contrast to the mechanized feeling of Gleeson's rendition, Tomita uses his space age instrument to express a very human vision.
In his free-form introduction to Holst's material, for instance, Tomita suggests that the listener is strapped aboard a spaceship, waiting to blast off.
Tomita often used the contrast between purely electronic and instrumental-like sounds as a source of humor.
www.isaotomita.net /recordings/planets.html   (1132 words)

  
 Isao Tomita - Compositions and other works
Tomita supervised this recording and the famous Tomita logo is placed in the covers top right corner.
Apparently Tomita thought this performance was to be a LaserDisc only release of a concert hall performance on video but Pioneer decided to make a CD of it in addition.
Tomita's name is only in small print as the final thing mentioned on the obi but he is the composer of this mini album.
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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.
Strangely, his performance of the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor is done with only an organ sound (well, it is an organ work).
www.jsbach.org /tomitabachfantasy.html   (350 words)

  
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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.
www.japanorama.com /tomita.html   (171 words)

  
 Amazon.de: isao: Alle Produkte   (Site not responding. Last check: )
High Performance - Snowflakes Are Dancing (Debusssy Electronical Performed By Tomita 1973-1974) von Isao Tomita (Künstler) und Claude Debussy (Komponist) von Rca Red S. (Sony BMG) (Audio CD - 2000)
Pictures at An Exhibition von Isao Tomita (Künstler) von Japan (Megaphon Importservice) (Audio CD - 2004)
Kosmos [Ltd. Papersleeve] von Isao Tomita [K2 24bit] (Künstler), Edvard Grieg (Komponist), Jascha Heifetz, und Arthur Honegger von Japan (Megaphon Importservice) (Audio CD - 2004)
www.amazon.de /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=isao   (597 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Planets: Music: Isao Tomita   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yet in our day we had no other option but to listen to the orchestral version, as there was no alternative; until 1976, that is, when Japanese keyboard wizard, Isao Tomita, recorded this fabulously up-dated version.
Yes, Tomita saw beyond Holst's vision, yet through the same eyes, and whilst keeping the basic structures of these long enduring pieces, has bolstered them with sounds Gustav could have only imagined in his wildest dreams.
From the incredible raw-roots of such a classic classical suite, Tomita has nurtured each planet like a child of his own to bring them way ahead of their time.
www.amazon.co.uk /Planets-Isao-Tomita/dp/B000003F1P   (591 words)

  
 Isao Tomita - Classical Synth Albums
Asking Tomita in person he mentioned that in their full length these pieces just didn't lend themselves to sustained synthesizer arrangement.
Tomita is said to have played the lead melody in the Firebird finale live, the rest was tape with several guest soloists.
Tomita was in his Casio Pyramid hoisted high above the river by a crane.
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 Jon Zaremba - Isao Tomita - The Bermuda Triangle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Inside the sleeve was a close up picture of Tomita, a map Bermuda, a very long description of the artist's ideas, and a HUGE list of analog synth gear that was used in the studio!
This effect can not be obtained from a standard phonograph record, but Tomita later pursued this idea in his live performances.
It's a bit of a shame because all of Tomita's other RCA recordings were re-released on CD.
www.jonzaremba.com /words/tomita.htm   (656 words)

  
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