Tomita’s work was used
extensively in television and film, his Arabesque No1 was used for the
astronomy series Jack Horkheimer-Star Gazer in the US and the intro and
outro on the Spanish children’s TV show Planeta Imaginairo (Imaginary Planet).
His Reverie was used at the opening and closing credits on the Japanese TV Fuji
Television transitions. Other works were used on the Zatoichi TV
series and films and also the Oshi Samurai, (mute Samurai,) TV series. Also,
the Toho science fiction disaster film in 1999. In 2001 he worked with
Disney for the background atmospheric music for the Aqua Sphere in the Tokyo
Disney Sea Theme Park. Tomita composed for the 2002 synthesizer score for the
film Twilight Samurai which featured acoustic soloists. His version of Debussy’s
Clair De Lune was used in the film Oceans 13 in 2007. Tomita performed in Tokyo
directing the Japan Philharmonic which featured the digital singing Avatar Hatsuni
Miku created by Crypton Future Media in 2012. In 2015, tracks from
Tomita’s Snowflakes are Dancing album were used in the US film Heaven
Knows What. Tomita performed various concerts over the years including his Soundcloud
concerts, with speakers surrounding the audience in the Cloud of Sound. Tomita
speaks in an interview about live concerts-
“There are many places I would like to hold a concert,
including as you mentioned the Grand Canyon or the Moon, but if there's no air
on the Moon, how would the sound travel! So I have been researching how it
would be possible to hold a concert over the Internet or a digital line,
because until now, for what is called a "Sound Cloud" concert, I had
to organise a huge area covered in sound or music, containing say an audience
of 40,000. This is a small space, in which people can enjoy the concert
together with an invisible cover of audio / sounds from the helicopter's
speaker and also from the speakers in a circle around the audience. But still I
am looking to find out what can be done over a digital line, like Ryuichi
Sakamoto tried something, with the person in one place, and using digital
circuits, there was an unmanned piano performing in a different place. But
while an audience can listen to such a concert, this is just a mere showing of
the technology. The audience should interpret the content of a concert or else
it just becomes a showcase. So still I am wondering, what can be done? I really
like the idea of music over a network, a web site, or digital lines. If I can
sort out all the questions I have, then a big concert might even be possible
from the moon! Then, all the audience on the Earth could enjoy the sound from
other planets or else from the other side of the Earth, but still I am not sure
how to realise this technically.” (Tomita)[1]
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