Japanese animator and composer.
biography
Now I am engaged in music creation of TV movies and cartoons. His passionate music style had a strong influence on Joe Hisaishi, a senior Japanese musician.
/kloc-self-taught composition at the age of 0/7. 198 1 was admitted to the composition department of Tokyo Conservatory of Music in Japan. Composer from Akio Inoue, Ikeno Guan, Mariko and other teachers, conductor from Yasuhiko Nishizawa. During my study, I won the 30th Anniversary Award of Tokyo Music Team of Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Composition Award of Japan Symphony Promotion Foundation. This "noble and decent" student later chose to play music and traditional dance music as the research topic. From 65438 to 0985, Wada Kaoru came into contact with electronic music and bands. After graduating from college, he lived in Europe to inspect and tour, and observed the activities and operations of several national symphony orchestras. 1988, the prelude of his work "Folk Dance Suite for Orchestra" was performed by the Swedish Malmo Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, and then held many concerts in the Netherlands, France, Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, the United States and Japan, which won unanimous praise. From 65438 to 0989, Wada Kaoru founded "Wada Kaoru Music Office" and began to compose music for movies and TV animations, as well as the planning, composition and composition of the rising Japanese symphony orchestra. He has made great achievements in folk music and other fields.
After returning to Japan, he began to play music in various animations, movies, stage plays and radio plays. Many popular cartoons are also famous in Taiwan Province Province. In 2004, he performed "Five Drums" with Taiwan Province Zhu Percussion Orchestra, bringing a brand-new percussion instrument style. In 2006, he cooperated with Zhu Percussion Orchestra again to rewrite the original soundtrack of the film, which was played by Zhu Percussion Orchestra during the winter tour, showing his international vision and strength.
His teacher, Ifu Buzhao, died in early 2006 and will hold a concert on March 4, 2007 to commemorate many musicians and their students. Wada Kaoru is a member of the Executive Committee. The music style is concise and lively, and the arrangement is full of strength and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Besides drama and music, Wada Kaoru mainly publishes orchestral works.
music style
Wada Kaoru's score obviously belongs to the orthodox school. It uses horns and orchestral music to show heroism. Music in tense moments is also used in film and television: gripping violin vibrato, irregular drums, slow repetition of a tune in different scales with low original numbers, and then buzzing confusion, and the effect is quite good. I still prefer to listen to his soothing part, that quaint fantasy breath, as if purified in the sacred breath of the goddess. And in
Such as: the music production of Japanese animation Inuyasha, and the music creation of movies, TV, videos, CDs, dramas and stage plays. 1995, the film music produced by Matsutake Film Company for "The Crown of Mysterious Stories" won the "Japan Film Award". In the animation part, there are not only Inuyasha, who is well-known to the audience in Taiwan Province Province, but also Three Eyes, a saint saint seiya, a machine god army, a new vampire Jimeixi, and a movie Jintian-Yi Juvenile Notebook, which is loved by many people in Taiwan Province Province. Apart from the well-known animation soundtrack, Wada Kaoru also helped Japanese actress Ryoko Hirosue to make background music for the Japanese TV series "To the Heart" and the movie "The Secret", and composed music for the famous Japanese pop singer Yuki Koyanagi. In the works, we can hear the vitality produced by the collision of various social cultures, which contains various flavors.
In addition, he composed for Japanese Pop Orchestra, Yomiuri Shimbun, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Keiko Abe, Amsterdam Percussion Orchestra and the Percussion Department of the National Conservatory of Music respectively. The cooperation with world-renowned xylophone player Keiko Abe also contributed to the cooperation opportunity with Zhu Percussion Orchestra.
It is enough to draw a list casually about Wada Kaoru's animation game music: Heart to Heart, Battle of Rhodes-Biography of Heroes and Knights, Three Eyes, kingdom hearts, Jin Tianyi Juvenile Chronicle, Animal Soldier Wei Naifeng's Post, magic city, New Blood-sucking Jimeixi, gunnm and Soul Service. Compared with yoko kanno, a composer who is good at collecting materials from folk music all over the world, Wada Kaoru prefers traditional music. Traditional Japanese Xiao, Di, Tai Gu and even China Erhu can all find a place in his music.
Wada Kaoru is also a composer with symphony style, but his music style is in sharp contrast with Oshima's "ミチル" (representative works: TV version of "Fairy Warrior" and "Steel Alchemist"). Oshima's style is dominated by traditional classical symphonies, and most of the instruments used are European instruments, thus creating a solemn and heavy atmosphere. Wada Kaoru's style is much lighter, and he is especially good at using harmony instruments (such as harmony drum, energy tube, sanxian, Satsuma pipa and so on). ) and combine it with traditional European symphonies, thus creating a unique "harmony symphony" style. The ingenious combination of national musical instruments of different natures creates music that not only loses the lightness of national music, but also has the profound dignity of symphony. What's more worth mentioning is that the score of Wada Kaoru's drama is well combined with the work itself. As far as music structure is concerned, Wada Kaoru's music is close to the style of film music, that is, he pays more attention to the music created in his works in line with the story than the degree of independence of music itself. Typical examples of this kind of music are Beyond the Time of Thinking 2, Youしさ, ぁりがとぅ and Prayer and Wish.
These songs take the soothing and low melody as the prelude, and then gradually set off a climax in line with the development of the story in the film. The musical structure of "Three Eyes" is even more unique: after the short string overture, mysterious percussion music full of Tibetan customs appeared, which fully set off the world view of "Three Eyes". Then, the style suddenly changed, and the main theme of Three Eyes was unveiled. The deep and sad tune seemed to tell the fate of Pei and Yakumo who met in the reincarnation of Three Eyes Mugaro.
In his works, no matter the yearning for Ge Wei, the heavy and sad fate of Eight Clouds and Pei in Three Eyes, or the relaxed and gentle campus life in Hallucinogens, they are all described so vividly and unforgettable. Therefore, I think that appreciating Wada Kaoru's music should not be divorced from the original work; Although only music is released here, I strongly recommend that you read the original works, because these works are so perfect with Tian Xun's music and stories. In the first two theatrical editions of "Inuyasha" and "Three Eyes" OVA, these pieces of music reached a climax while telling stories, and the excellent performance effects left a deep impression on both the works themselves and Wada Kaoru's music. On June 5438+ 10, 2006, the soundtrack of Exorcism Boys was not ideal, which was far from the previous soundtrack in Inuyasha. (turning)
However, the episode "Song of Beating" created after 90 words of "Exorcising Teenagers" is very popular.
The introduction in Baidu Encyclopedia is very detailed. We got the main, mainly about him and animation. The music played is also very loving ~ ~