Why Japan is rich in composers

Many domestic singers first became famous by covering Japanese songs. Why is Japan rich in composers? Here is what I shared about why Japan is rich in composers. Let’s take a look.

The reason why Japan is rich in composers

Familiar ones include: Joe Hisaishi, Kitaro, Sojiro, Himegami, SENS, Seiji Yokoyama

1. Japanese music It is a mature industry and has formed its own ecosystem.

Second, truly learn the essence of Western music and still retain your own culture

Three, national character, seriousness

Four, Japanese musicians are a bit different Not more than European and American countries, but much more than China. As for why there are so few in China, the above three points can be understood in reverse.

1. Art consumption is based on material basis. Japan is very rich, so naturally the consumption of the upper class is very developed.

2. Japan has done a good job in dismantling Western culture while retaining its own culture, music is one aspect.

3. The Japanese value education.

4. Society The cultural classification is very good, and artists have their due social status.

5. Japan’s traditional bushido culture ensures that they have a world-leading position in almost all industries they touch.

6. Japan has not experienced a cultural taboo period in the past hundred years, and its art forms are very open.

In summary, this question is answered.

① Japanese cultural people have been paying attention to it since ancient times. For self-improvement, he is good at translating his perception of the environment and the warmth, desolation, majesty, loneliness and other emotions gained from his understanding of nature into art forms such as poetry, calligraphy and painting. ② Japan’s cultural industry chain is mature and it pays attention to the protection of copyright and other intellectual property rights, ensuring the ecological environment of cultural people. ③Japan’s political atmosphere is relatively democratic, and the development of culture does not receive too many constraints. ④With the international spread of Japanese movies and animations, compositions that are inseparable from movies have begun to become familiar to us. The most representative one is Joe Hisaishi. In fact, there are many foreign composers who have become famous thanks to the prosperity of the Japanese animation industry. For example, Liang Bangyan

When Clapton toured Japan in the 1990s, he told the audience, "When I play this When I played a few songs (referring to the songs in the album with my avatar), only the fans here had the strongest reaction. You are the ones who really know how to appreciate it. .

1. After being defeated and conquered, people will worship the conquerors. American culture and music poured into Japanese society, which was a huge and complete revolution to the old and boring Japanese culture. From kabuki to blues singing, it only took a few years. People played blues more than 50 years earlier than we did, and they were exposed to the basics of music so early. It has nothing to do with the fact that the development of music today is at the advanced level of Asia.

2. The Japs are the most serious creatures in the world. Rehearsing and creating are top priorities. A large number of people are so persistent that they don’t eat or sleep until they get it done. Therefore, they are the ones who work hardest and deserve the most success in Asia.

3. Regarding the inheritance and support of traditional culture, their history has been castrated. Everyone knows where it started. But now, people’s folk customs and styles will be very unified and solid. Thousands of years ago, people’s folk customs and styles are very unified and solid. The stuff is still amazing to this day. When making music, I also pay great attention to integrating my own characteristics into modern music, so my sincerity towards tradition is also very commendable.

4. Musicians have always had a consistent grasp of their individuality. From the well-known Joe Hisaishi to Kitaro, Ryuichi and now DJ OKAWARI, their success lies in their ability to always maintain a childlike innocence in addition to their hard work. , not for fun, but to make yourself always mentally clear and transparent. This state is the strongest in the small universe, so creating masterpieces like this for a long time will be accompanied by a somewhat unreliable 250 personality.

The above humble opinion

Fully developed market

Good financial feedback

Retention of traditional culture

Foreign Cultural reference

Efforts of practitioners

As you mentioned, their compositions are different from those of familiar European and American music composers. Non-senior music lovers will hear the compositions of European and American music. Writers can only think of classical music and pure music, while pop rock rarely has the factor of "composer" in it.

Of the six you mentioned, I don’t know much about the last one, so I’ll analyze the first five. Joe Hisaishi is a pianist and composer, and his representative works are the theme songs and interludes he produced for Hayao Miyazaki's animated films; Kitaro is also a producer of animation music; Sojiro is an Austrian flute player and pure music composer; Himegami and SENS are the masters of electronic music. These music forms cannot be simply classified into pure music, pop music, rock metal, nor are they mainstream JAPANESE MUSIC, so their success has a large part in composition factors.

Take Joe Hisaishi's Castle in the Sky as an example. Its fame is as good as the movie of the same name, but these two works cannot reach it from the artistic perspective of the film and the unique perspective of the music? The level of the industry's pinnacle has reached the level of the industry's conscience. Its music, like the animation, is different from the impact of European and American works, and emphasizes the overall deep impression. This is the reason why Japanese composers are highlighted. In other words, some very famous music is attributed to singing skills, stage performances, instrumental effects and connotations in other countries and forms. A series of Japanese music is given by composers. has more meaning. I think the development of this kind of music is inevitable, because the feeling of music is dominated by the melody itself, while singing, performance, musical instruments and music plot accessories (animations, movies, etc.) come after the melody.

Another point is that Japanese electronic music and virtual singers are the most developed in the world, which also encourages more people to compose, making composition a separate link rather than something that singers or musical instrument technicians want to do. Only make music when you are singing or playing. At the same time, more and more people are singing covers and remixes, which makes excellent songs amplified and given more meaning.

The most typical example of this model is ACG music. The secondary creation of vocaloid music and Touhou Project music are the best examples of "independent composers" and "amplification of the composer's meaning".