Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto: The Emotional Genius and Timeless Composer.
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last week, was a master of conjuring layered emotion in his film scores. His music explored the intersection of beauty and terror, and the way a soul can survive even as a body falters. Sakamoto's scores were interested in the liminal spaces where words falter but emotions thrum, and his music has continued to score those spaces in the lives of his listeners.