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Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933-2022)

Alias:
Sei Ichiyanagi
一柳 慧

Birthplace:
Kobe, Japan

Born:
February 4, 1933

Died:
October 7, 2022

Biography from TheMovieDB

Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳 慧 Ichiyanagi Toshi, born 4 February 1933) is a Japanese composer and pianist.  Ichiyanagi was born in Kobe. He studied with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Kishio Hirao [fr; ja], and John Cage. One of his most notable works is the 1960 composition Kaiki, which combined Japanese instruments, shō and koto, and western instruments, harmonica and saxophone. Another work, Distance (1961), required the performers to play from a distance of three meters from their instruments. Anima 7 (1964) stated that chosen action should be performed "as slowly as possible".  Ichiyanagi was married to Yoko Ono from 1956 to 1963.  Ichiyanagi is the recipient of the 33rd Suntory Music Award (2001) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award (2018). He has been honored with Japan's Order of Culture.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshi Ichiyanagi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Music:
1962  The World of Pulses - Electronics and Living Organism
1963  A Town Not Yet Seen
1970  Heroic Purgatory
1971  Metastasis
1972  Expansion
1975  Atman
1975  Everything Visible Is Empty
1981  The Ondekoza
1982  THE BONE
1986  THE BONE II

Original Music Composer:
1962  Pitfall
1962  Sculptures by Sofu - Vita
1962  The World of Pulses - Electronics and Living Organism
1963  A Town Not Yet Seen
1963  Closed Vagina
1963  The Solar Thread
1965  A Story Written with Water
1965  Kachi Kachi Yama
1967  The River - Poem of Wrath
1967  The Room
1968  Farewell to the Summer Light
1968  Oxed-man
1969  Eros + Massacre
1969  Tragedy on the G Line
1970  Heroic Purgatory
1970  Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
1971  Confessions Among Actresses
1971  Metastasis
1972  Expansion
1973  Coup d'Etat
1975  Atman
1975  Everything Visible Is Empty
1977  The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
1980  Jun
1981  The Ondekoza
1982  THE BONE
1984  The Wangan Highway
1986  Saya: Perspective in Love
1986  THE BONE II
2011  Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

Sound:
1962  Pitfall
1962  Sculptures by Sofu - Vita
1962  The World of Pulses - Electronics and Living Organism
1963  A Town Not Yet Seen
1963  Closed Vagina
1963  The Solar Thread
1965  A Story Written with Water
1965  Kachi Kachi Yama
1967  The River - Poem of Wrath
1967  The Room
1968  Farewell to the Summer Light
1968  Oxed-man
1969  Eros + Massacre
1969  Tragedy on the G Line
1970  Heroic Purgatory
1970  Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
1971  Confessions Among Actresses
1971  Metastasis
1972  Expansion
1973  Coup d'Etat
1975  Atman
1975  Everything Visible Is Empty
1977  The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
1980  Jun
1981  The Ondekoza
1982  THE BONE
1984  The Wangan Highway
1986  Saya: Perspective in Love
1986  THE BONE II
1989  ERYTHROPOIEISIS AND ERYTHROPOIETIN
2011  Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

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TV Production

Music:
1974  Beauty of Beauty

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