Memory

Eno, Brian

Neroli

Also, he released Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV), an austere album even by Eno standards.

Soundtrack composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

A sound akin to Javanese and Balinese gamelan filtered through dense layers of contemporary sources suffuses feature-film scores such as Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Maurice Jarre’s The Year of Living Dangerously and Shoji Yamashiro’s Akira.

Soundtrack by Yamashiro Shoji

Akira

A sound akin to Javanese and Balinese gamelan filtered through dense layers of contemporary sources suffuses feature-film scores such as Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Maurice Jarre’s The Year of Living Dangerously and Shoji Yamashiro’s Akira.

Mitchell, Roscoe

Sound

Aside from the sound of the music – a fractal vibration of harmonics which contains immeasurable variety – the transmission of the music introduced to European culture the idea of performance as a kind of ambience.

Debussy, Claude

La mer

Surely this background detail was unknown in 1889, yet how significant it turned out to be for Debussy, who composed liquid works such La mer, Reflets dans l’eau, Jardins sous la pluie and Poissons d’or only a few years after his experience at the exposition.

Debussy, Claude

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune/Jeux/Nocturnes

Debussy’s reverie was realised in his gorgeous Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Syrinx, a flute solo composed in 1913 which depicted Pan justifiably lamenting the transformation of his nymph lover into an aeolian reed flute.