Celebrating the 111th anniversary of Akira Ifukube.
Fans of Godzilla/Gojira will immediately recognize the name Akira Ifukube.
He is responsible for the music score for the '54 Japanese sci-fi film Gojira, and many others.
Godzilla has a distinctive roar which was created by composer Akira Ifukube, who produced the sound by rubbing a pine tar-resin-coated glove along the string of a contrabass and then slowing down the playback, and its booming footsteps were created by striking an amplifier box.
Ifukube spent some time in hospital due to the radiation exposure, and was startled one day to hear one of his own marches being played over the radio when General Douglas MacArthur arrived to formalize the Japanese surrender.
Despite his financial success as a film composer, Ifukube's first love had always been his general classical work as a composer.
He trained younger generation composers and also published Orchestration, a 1,000-page book on theory, widely used among Japanese composers.
He died in Tokyo at Meguro-ku Hospital of multiple organ dysfunction on 8 February in 2006, at the age of 91 and buried at the Ube shrine in Tottori.
Please take a moment to remember him.
He is responsible for the music score for the '54 Japanese sci-fi film Gojira, and many others.
Godzilla has a distinctive roar which was created by composer Akira Ifukube, who produced the sound by rubbing a pine tar-resin-coated glove along the string of a contrabass and then slowing down the playback, and its booming footsteps were created by striking an amplifier box.
Ifukube spent some time in hospital due to the radiation exposure, and was startled one day to hear one of his own marches being played over the radio when General Douglas MacArthur arrived to formalize the Japanese surrender.
Despite his financial success as a film composer, Ifukube's first love had always been his general classical work as a composer.
He trained younger generation composers and also published Orchestration, a 1,000-page book on theory, widely used among Japanese composers.
He died in Tokyo at Meguro-ku Hospital of multiple organ dysfunction on 8 February in 2006, at the age of 91 and buried at the Ube shrine in Tottori.
Please take a moment to remember him.
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