Otomo Yoshihide on Noise Music, Collaboration and Amachan | Red Bull Music Academy

CLICK CC FOR SUBTITLES. Speaking at the 2014 Red Bull Music Academy, Otomo Yoshihide went deep on noise music, collaboration, the Amachan soundtrack, and more. TOPICS: 1:56 – Fukushima disaster 21:07 – Noise music with turntables 31:25 – Tips for collaboration 38:50 – Soundtracks and Amachan 54:46 – Any music can be noise 1:07:48 – Japan’s reputation for noise music MUSIC: 3:00 – Excerpt from “Project Fukushima!” documentary 24:42 – Otomo Yoshihide – “Without Records” 33:29 – Otomo Yoshihide/ENSEMBLES – “Quartets” 41:01 – Otomo Yoshihide – “Ama-chan” Theme (Live) 58:29 – Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe – “Mass Projection” The line between mainstream and underground is merely a pinstripe for Otomo Yoshihide, a composer and multi-instrumentalist with over 100 releases under his belt. Otomo became known to the world in the ’90s as the leader of improvisational noise band Ground Zero. Now, though, he’s nearing household name status for his compositions of a different sort: he’s hit the Top 10 in Japan with his soundtrack for Amachan, a popular TV drama series about a teenage sea urchin diver who becomes a pop idol. The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year. ► Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ► Visit Red Bull TV: ► Visit our official website: ► Our latest videos on YouTube: ► Like us on Facebook: ► Follow us on Instagram: ► Follow us on Twitter: