![]() ![]() For the opening theme song called 'inner universe,' I had an image of digital bits and composed a score consisting of recurrent quick beats. I wanted to express these 'tangible fuzziness,' sort of. ![]() Or be it Tachikoma wishing to become human. The theme I had in mind was, 'be human.' It represented the sentiment of 'why don't we take it easy and be more like a human being?'-instead of being a workaholic salaried man working for his company. So I tried to think of ways to destroy that world. I had this image of a formal and rigid 'manly' world for the original comic. In regards to making the Stand Alone Complex soundtrack, she said: Yoko Kanno's soundtrack themes include " Kiseki no Umi" ( Lodoss War), "Voices" ( Macross Plus), " Tank!" ( Cowboy Bebop), " Yakusoku wa Iranai" ( Escaflowne), " Gravity" ( Wolf's Rain), " Inner Universe" ( Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. The game turned out to be a hit, and Kanno's music career was launched. While at Waseda, the Japanese video game company Koei asked Kanno to compose the soundtrack to Nobunaga's Ambition. While with this band, she studied the composition and style of popular music. I started to take heavy interest in music that wasn’t classical and joined the band elective. Then I see drums performed live, and was able to experience a beat for the first time. I had heard drums on the radio before, but it was like I had never really noticed them. She spoke of this experience in an interview with Akihiro Tomita: During this time, Kanno-whose parents had only allowed her to listen to classical music-was introduced to rhythm by a friend who played drums in a school band. Kanno attended Waseda University, where she majored in literature, but she transcribed music for various student groups at Waseda in her free time. In elementary school, she began participating in composition contests, but in high school, Kanno began to take more of an interest in literature than in music. She studied keyboard on both the piano in her home and the organ at her kindergarten. Her earliest experiences with music came from attending church with her parents. Yoko Kanno was born on March 18, 1963, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions. ![]() She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Yoko Kanno ( 菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. ![]()
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