Earlier today (April 2), it was revealed that boundary-pushing Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died late last month at age 71, after years of living with cancer. Sakomoto’s management announced the ...

It's a rare occasion these days when a certain album manages to shake quietly the foundation of what music is and what it can be. It's very difficult to position an album that breaks all its ...

The German electronic musician offers one of the most moving tributes to his longtime musical collaborator in a new anthology, striking a balance between the austerity and lyrical beauty of their two ...

At some point during the sold-out Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto U.S. premiere of their composition “s,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Wednesday night, I had to wonder: how many people are asleep ...

Latterly, though, his work has been quite extraordinarily subdued and experimental – collaborations with far-leftfield glitch, electronica and ambient luminaries like Christian Fennesz, Carsten ...

The first of many things that surprised me at Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto’s Sydney Opera House show is the age diversity. I did stop for a moment and ask myself “am I in the right place?” But given ...

The films of Alejandro González Iñárritu have been scored with keen awareness of the agency of sound design, to intensify atmosphere and to emphasize the physical experience of character. Given this ...

The score gives Alejandro González Iñárritu's film its emotional baseline, summoning the profound disquiet of a forbidding winter in the... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is ...