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Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tōru Takemitsu, Yoko Kanno, Joe Hisaishi, Kenji Kawai, Motoi Sakuraba, Fumio Hayasaka, Koichi Sugiyama, Akira Ifukube, S.e.n.s., Michiru Ōshima, Kō Ōtani, Hikaru Hayashi, Katsuhisa Hattori, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Sadao Bekku, Kōji Ueno, Ichiko Hashimoto, Tomoki Hasegawa, Yasushi Akutagawa, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Kentarō Haneda, Riichiro Manabe, Masaru Satō, Teizo Matsumura, Shigeru Umebayashi, Hajime Mizoguchi, Masamichi Amano, Shinkichi Mitsumune, Shin-Ichiro Ikebe, Kuniaki Haishima, Taro Iwashiro, Ichirō Saitō, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Akihito Tokunaga, Kazuhiko Toyama, Yuji Nomi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 179. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tru Takemitsu Takemitsu Tru, October 8, 1930 February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. In 1958, he received international attention for his Requiem for strings (1957) which resulted in several commissions from across the world, and settled his reputation as the leading Japanese composer of the 20th century. He was the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and honours; he composed over one hundred film scores and about one hundred and thirty concert works for ensembles of various sizes and combinations. He also found time to write a detective novel and appeared frequently on Japanese television as a celebrity chef. In the foreword to a selection of Takemitsu's writings in English, conductor Seiji Ozawa writes: "I am very proud of m...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=222568 ... Read more

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Chapters: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Little Buddha, Chasm, Tony Takitani, World Citizen, the Sheltering Sky, the Last Emperor, Heartbeat, Tokyo Joe, Cendre, Neo Geo, Insen, a Day in New York, Vrioon, Cinemage, Bttb. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: Senj no Mer Kurisumasu Battlefield Merry Christmas)), also known as Furyo in many European editions) is a 1983 film directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yuya Uchida, and Takeshi Kitano. It was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg and based on Laurens van der Post's experiences during World War II as a prisoner of war as depicted in his works The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970). Sakamoto also wrote the musical score and the vocal theme "Forbidden Colours" featuring David Sylvian, which was a hit single in many territories. The film was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious prisoner with a guilty secret from his youth; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence (Conti), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently; and Sergeant Hara (Kitano) who is seemingly brutal and yet humane in some ways and with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship. Like Celliers, Yonoi, too, is tormented by guilt. Having been posted to Manchuria previously, he was unable to be in Tokyo with his Army comrades, the "Shining Young Officers" of Japan's February 26 Incident, a 1936 military coup d'état. When the coup fails, the young army officers are executed...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=558578 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akiko Yano, Nobuo Uematsu, Saburō Kitajima, Tōru Takemitsu, Yoko Kanno, Yasunori Mitsuda, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Toshio Iwai, Joe Hisaishi, Hiroki Kikuta, Kenji Kawai, Shiro Hamaguchi, Yuki Kajiura, Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, Fumio Hayasaka, Jun Maeda, Koichi Sugiyama, Masaharu Iwata, Yūzō Koshiro, Aqi Fzono, Koji Kondo, Koichi Domoto, Masaharu Fukuyama, Takahito Eguchi, Susumu Hirasawa, Noriko Matsueda, Akira Ifukube, Ryuji Sasai, Tetsuya Komuro, Ichiro Fujiyama, Mari Kimura, Masato Hatanaka, Kumi Tanioka, Hiroaki Zakoji, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michiru Ōshima, Sora Izumikawa, Ataru Nakamura, Mana, Seiichi Yamamoto, Masayoshi Soken, Hayato Matsuo, Kō Ōtani, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Soyo Oka, Akira Miyoshi, Kentaro Sato, Hitomi Kaneko, Shinji Orito, Norihiko Hibino, Yoshitaka Hirota, Masataka Matsutoya, Yoshitaka Nishimura, Kohei Tanaka, Koji Nakano, Akira Yamaoka, Hideki Fujisawa, Kanon Wakeshima, Marhy, Odiakes, Yoshirō Irino, Jun Senoue, Hikaru Hayashi, Katsuhisa Hattori, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Dai Fujikura, Hidemaro Konoye, Makoto Shinohara, Missa Johnouchi, Kazumi Totaka, Manabu Namiki, Kazuhiko Kato, Keiko Abe, Shinobu Tanaka, Hiroshi Takano, Jiang Wen-Ye, Kosaku Yamada, Yoshio Machida, Yasuhiro Kawakami, Kosuke Saito, Ryutaro Nakahara, Miki Higashino, Naoshi Mizuta, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Minoru Miki, Sadao Bekku, Masumi Itō, Toshihiko Sahashi, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Stomu Yamashta, Tenpei Sato, Masafumi Takada, Go Shiina, Kōji Ueno, Yasuhide Ito, Yasunao Tone, Ichiko Hashimoto, Takanori Arisawa, Magome Togoshi, Kenichiro Fukui, Ushio Torikai, Yuka Tsujiyoko, Motoyuki Shitanda, Takekuni Hirayoshi, Hōzan Yamamoto, Junichi Nakatsuru, Hiro Takahashi, Teiji Ito, Koichi Morita, Mikio Sakai, Maki Ishii, Tsukasa Tawada, Sollers Osaka, Shigeru Kan-No, Shōji Meguro, Ikuma Dan, Chie Mukai, Hikari Kiyama, Shiro Miya, Yasushi Akutagawa, Toshio Hosokawa, Masahiro Andoh, Ryohei Hirose, Shōgo Sakai, H-Wonder, Yoshihisa Taira, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=222568 ... Read more

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Whether it's joining others on a school science project or being a part of a relay race, that kids in What A Team! know that sharing accomplishments as part of a team makes their effort twice as sweet. A companion to the popular What I Like About Me and What I Do Best, this entertaining multi-activity book teaches kids that when individuals join together for a common goal, there's nothing they can't do! Featuring pull-tabs, flaps, and more, What a Team! shows children how working together is the best way to get things done. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Masashi Hamauzu, Yōichi Kotabe, Takashi Murakami, Kim Swoo Geun, Hayato Matsuo, Rin', Yoshitoshi Abe, Eric Van Hove, Eiji Aonuma, Makoto Shinohara, Tetsumi Kudo, Motoaki Takenouchi, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Minoru Miki, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Toshihiko Sahashi, Shigeo Fukuda, Motoyuki Shitanda, Takekuni Hirayoshi, Ryohei Hirose, Yoshihiko Wada, Akio Yasuraoka, Masa'aki Suzuki, Hajime Mizoguchi, Jo Kondo, Shigeaki Saegusa, Shin-Ichiro Ikebe, Eiko Ishioka, Taku Iwasaki, Yūsuke Iseya, Hiroshi Masuoka, Kōtarō Nakagawa, Norio Ohga, Kazue Sawai, Taro Iwashiro, Taro Hakase, Kaoru Kakudo, Tadao Sawai. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ryuichi Sakamoto Sakamoto Ryichi, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played keyboards in the influential Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history. Sakamoto attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he earned a B.A. in music composition and an M.A. with special emphasis on both electronic and ethnic music. After working as a session musician, he formed the internationally successful synthpop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra, with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. Sakamoto released his first solo album, The Thousand Knives of Ryichi Sakamoto, in 1978. The album includes the songs "Thousand Knives" and "The End of Asia." Following the disbanding of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto released a number of solo albums in the 1980s. While primarily focused on the piano and synthesizer, this series of albums boasted a roster of collaborators that ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26272 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ringo Shiina, Tatsuro Yamashita, Mai Kuraki, Lyrics Born, Masaharu Fukuyama, Susumu Hirasawa, Tsunku, Tetsuya Komuro, Masataka Matsutoya, Hiro, Seiji Kameda, Kazuhiko Kato, Yasutaka Nakata, Tatsuya Kimura, Max Matsuura, Nigo, Shin Terai, Yoshi Terashima, M.c.a·t, K.a.z, Hoppy Kamiyama, Teruzane Utada, Takeshi Furukawa, Toshiro Yabuki, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Koss. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ringo Shiina Shiina Ringo), born Yumiko Shiina Shiina Yumiko), is a Japanese singer-songwriter born on November 25, 1978. She works both as a solo musician and singer as well as a member of the band Tokyo Jihen. On the Nekoyanagi Line website, she described herself as "Shinjuku-kei Jisaku-Jien-ya a person who performs in her own Shinjuku-style play)". She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians provided by HMV in 2003. Yumiko was born in Urawa (now part of Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, to Ktar and Akiko Shiina, an oil company executive and full-time homemaker. She was born with an esophageal atresia in which the esophagus narrows as it approaches the stomach. Treatment of this involved several operations, at least one of which requiring her right shoulder blade to be cut open. These surgeries left Shiina with large scars on her shoulder blades, said to give the impression that an angel's wings had been removed. Her first exposure to music came from her father's interest in jazz and classical music; additionally, her mother had majored in dance in college and practiced ballet. Her parents owned a large collection of music, a piano, and a guitar, and her father also was a devoted reader of music magazines. She began to take piano lessons at the age of 4 and studied classical ballet starting at the age of 5. Whi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=669041 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akiko Yano, Eminence Symphony Orchestra, Yoko Kanno, Joe Hisaishi, Kenji Kawai, Shiro Hamaguchi, Yuki Kajiura, Motoi Sakuraba, Koichi Sugiyama, Susumu Hirasawa, S.e.n.s., Michiru Ōshima, Hayato Matsuo, Kō Ōtani, Kohei Tanaka, Katsuhisa Hattori, Plaid, Bruce Faulconer, Masumi Itō, Toshihiko Sahashi, Takanori Arisawa, Tomoki Hasegawa, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Kentarō Haneda, Kaoru Wada, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Yoshihisa Hirano, Hajime Mizoguchi, Masamichi Amano, Nina, Shinkichi Mitsumune, Naoki Satō, Toshio Masuda, Shigeaki Saegusa, Hideyuki Fukasawa, Akifumi Tada, Shirō Sagisu, Anime Composer, Taku Iwasaki, Kōtarō Nakagawa, Hitomi Kuroishi, Tenmon, Kuniaki Haishima, Rory Mcfarlane, Takkyu Ishino, Taro Iwashiro, Yoko Ueno, Shinji Miyazaki, Mina Kubota, Joel Douek, Akihito Tokunaga, Sumio Shiratori, Mark Mercury, Kazuhiko Toyama, Yuji Yoshino, Yuji Nomi. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Eminence Symphony Orchestra founded in Sydney, Australia is an independent symphony orchestra which delves into the classical music featured in video games and anime, as well as film scores. Eminence was founded in 2003 by a small group of friends, led by the virtuoso solo violinist Hiroaki Yura. The difference in the cultural backgrounds between these friends as well as their differing experiences and qualifications contributed to what would be their first concert. Eminence focuses particularly on the music of notable Japanese video games and anime. The orchestra's vision is to "inject something bold, dynamic and fresh into classical music". Eminence wishes to "break down the barriers between the audience and the musicians, and to revive orchestra in today's society; particularly amongst youth". While the trademark of Eminence is the symphony orchestra, the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4924621 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pizzicato Five, Pink Lady, Masato Hatanaka, Trf, Rsp, Towa Tei, Maki Nomiya, Kakko. Excerpt:Kakko is one of the pseudonyms of Yamagata Kakuko (former name Suzuki Kakuko), a Japanese actress, TV presenter and former pop singer. Yamagata was born September 23, 1969 in Osaka , Japan . Under the name "Kakko", she was on the roster of Stock Aitken Waterman but met with little success in the UK charts. Yamagata attended an American school in Kobe and aged 17 was spotted by a scout from CBS records. She moved to the UK to attend a music school in London before coming to the attention of producers Stock Aitken and Waterman. Her first single, the Stock/Aitken/Waterman penned "We Should Be Dancing", was released in February 1990 reaching number 101 in the UK charts, while her second release, "What Kind Of Fool" (written by Harding/Curnow/Clift), didn't manage to get a chart rating. She returned to Japan in 1991 and commenced working under the stage-name Suzuki Anju. She has become a popular actress in TV dramas and features in many commercials. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Maki Nomiya Maki Nomiya ( , Nomiya Maki ? , born March 12, 1960 in Shiranuka , Hokkaid ) is a Japanese singer and musician. She released her first solo album in 1981, and worked through the 1980s as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Portable Rock. In 1991 she became the lead singer of the band Pizzicato Five . When the group disbanded in 2001 she embarked on a solo career. She also appears singing solo on the soundtrack of the game We Katamari and in the 2008 Japanese version of Just One Second (Jikan Wo Tomete) by London Elektricity . Solo Discography References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapt... ... Read more

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Chapters: Aozora Bunko, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Anti-Copyright, Brewster Kahle, the Pirate Bay, the Pirate Bay Trial, Mashup, Criticism of Intellectual Property, Pirate Party, Software Patent Debate, Copyleft, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Steal This Film, the Grey Album, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Students for Free Culture, Libertarian Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Kevin Carson, Piratbyrån, Free Culture Movement, Royaldutchshellplc.com, Free Knowledge Institute, Lawrence Liang, Jorge Cortell, List of Litigation Involving the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Open Rights Group, Criticism of Patents, Defective by Design, Misha Verbitsky, Christian Engström, Pirate Cinema, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Stephan Kinsella, Digital Rights Ireland, Michele Boldrin, Rasmus Fleischer, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Gottfrid Svartholm, David K. Levine, Peter Sunde, Download This Song, Creator's Bill of Rights, Public Knowledge, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, It-Political Association of Denmark, Rickard Falkvinge, Global Network Initiative, Prq, Timothy Laszlo Sandor, Amelia Andersdotter, the League of Noble Peers, Fredrik Neij, Joost Smiers, Gripe Site, Access to Knowledge Movement, Kai Puolamäki, Digital Copyright Canada, Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, Piraattiliitto, Hacklab, Association Electronique Libre, Hartmut Pilch, League for Programming Freedom, Downhill Battle, Eff-Austin, Infoanarchism, Stefan Flod, Public Patent Foundation, Digital Freedom Campaign, Tankafritt, Association Des Audionautes, Patients Not Patents, World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, Fair Use Project, Union for the Public Domain. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 397. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Concepts: Networks and services: Other: The Pirate Bay...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1923870 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Bricolages, /04, 1996, Heartbeat, Chasm, Bttb, Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, Moto.tronic, Smoochy, Beauty, Neo Geo, B-2 Unit, Discord. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Bricolages est un album de Ryuichi Sakamoto, paru en 2006. Il contient des remix de Chasm. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Kanno, Koichi Sugiyama, Masato Hatanaka, Sora Izumikawa, Masataka Matsutoya, Taichi Kokubun, Marhy, Stomu Yamashta, Hirohisa Horie, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Shinkichi Mitsumune, Ryo Okumoto, Keizoh Kawano, Takagi Masakatsu, Kuni Kawachi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yoko Kanno Kanno Yko, born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for J-pop artists, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyko Koizumi. She is also a skilled keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for The Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible. Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous 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. In regards to making the Stand Alone Complex soundtrack she said: Having composed in various genres, including blues, classical, jazz, techno, and J-pop, she was once asked if she favored a particular genre: Since she works in the animation industry, she only receives instructions and storyboards from directors which helps her with composing. However, it...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=247460 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Ryūichi Sakamoto, Hiroaki Zakoji, Akira Ifukube, Tōru Takemitsu, Akira Miyoshi, Shin'ichirō Ikebe, Fumio Hayasaka, Toshirō Mayuzumi, Akio Yashiro, Fumie Hihara, Hajime Mizoguchi, Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Roh Ogura, Saburō Takata, Kozaburo Hirai, Yoshihiro Kanno, Ryō Noda, Jōji Yuasa, Shigeru Kanno, Seiichi Suzuki, Masakazu Natsuda. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Ryūichi Sakamoto , , ) est un musicien, compositeur, producteur et acteur japonais. Fils d'un célèbre éditeur (Kazuki Sakamoto), Sakamoto a commencé très tôt le piano et la composition. Il aimait la musique impressionniste, surtout Claude Debussy, ainsi que le pop rock tels The Beatles et The Rolling Stones. Il a suivi les cours de l'Université des Beaux Arts et de Musique de Tokyo, où il a étudié la composition et la musique électronique et ethnique. Sakamoto a enregistré son premier album de musique électronique en 1978 avec les morceaux Thousand Knives et The End of Asia. À la même époque, Sakamoto est devenu membre du trio japonais Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO, synth-rock/synth, J-Pop), avec Haruomi Hosono et Yukihiro Takahashi. Sa musique a été beaucoup influencée par Kraftwerk. D'audience internationale, ce groupe a connu quelques succès dont Computer Game dans le top 20 britannique à la fin des années 70. Il est aussi connu pour Technopolis, Tong Poo et Ongaku. YMO s'est officiellement séparé fin 1983, mais a sorti début 1984 son dernier album After Service, qui contient l'interprétation de son dernier concert. Sakamoto a collaboré avec David Sylvian sur plusieurs singles, et a participé à la plupart des albums de Sylvian. Il a également travaillé avec Fennesz, Towa Tei (du groupe Deee-Lite), Thomas Dolby, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more