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Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), [1] often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded [2] as one of the pioneers of electronic music [3] [4] [5] and space music, [6] and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. [7]
Snowflakes Are Dancing is the second studio album by Japanese musician Isao Tomita, recorded in 1973–1974 and first released by RCA Records on the Red Seal label as a Quadradisc in April 1974. [2]
Feb 1, 2024 · Contemporary music has a small set of innovators to thank for its current status. One man consistently overlooked by mainstream Western accounts is Isao Tomita, who pioneered electronic music, analogue synthesisers, and sound design.
May 12, 2016 · Released by RCA in 1974, the resulting recording, “ Snowflakes Are Dancing,” brought Mr. Tomita — who died on May 5, at 84, and was widely considered the father of Japanese electronic music ...
May 8, 2016 · Synthesizer and electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita has died at 84, The Japan Times reports. Tomita was responsible for helping to bring analog synthesis and electronic music to Japan in 1971...
May 8, 2016 · Synthesist Isao Tomita – best known for a series of albums featuring synthesizer arrangements of classical works – has died at the age of 84. Tomita (22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016) died of chronic cardiac failure, with family at his bedside.
Feb 3, 2021 · Isao Tomita was nine years old when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. In the years that followed he found himself surrounded by destruction: Half a million men, women, and children–the majority of whom resided in Tomita’s home city of Tokyo–would be killed in air raids or die from starvation.
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
Isao Tomita, the synthesizer pioneer who composed the score for Tezuka Osamu's anime 'Kimba the White Lion' and NHK drama 'Hana no Shogai,' died of heart failure Thursday at Tokyo Metropolitan ...
Isao Tomita was born in Tokyo in 1932, and at the age of three moved to China with his father, where he remained for five years before returning to Japan. As a student he took private lessons in composition, orchestration and theory while reading art history at Keio University in Tokyo.
