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Otomo Yoshihide [1] (大友 良英, Ōtomo Yoshihide, born August 1, 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics. [2]
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Otomo Yoshihide was born in 1959 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was a pioneering figure in the Electroacoustic Improvisation scene, and today is a musician and producer — a cross-genre music maker actively performing free improvisation, noise, and pop, simultaneously and independently on a global scale.
Feb 28, 2024 · Otomo Yoshihide is a musician born in 1959 who has been creating a wide variety of music from improvisation and noise pieces to pop music, always simultaneously and independently, and performs all over the world. As a film music producer, he has composed music for more than 100 films.
He became a prominent figure in the Japan's "onkyo" (a somewhat controversial term) scene (better known as a branch of EAI world wide); alongside figures such as Sachiko M and Toshimaru Makamura. This style of music focuses highly upon the minimal and atonal textures of improvised music.
I first heard about turntablist/guitarist Otomo Yoshihide through one of his many projects, Ground Zero. Plays Standards amazed me- he led his band to tear apart and reconstruct "Those Were The Days," John Philip Sousa, Victor Jara, Brecht, soundtrack composers and Burt Bacharach.
