KEYBOARD visits Ryuichi Sakamoto's NYC Studio

Published 2018-08-06
The new documentary Ryuichi Saklamoto: Coda is receiving critical acclaim of late. Back in 2010, the Maestro himself gave KEYBOARD Editor Jon Regen a tour of his New York City studio.

All Comments (21)
  • @sublibrarian
    What about giving Mr Sakamoto a microphone to speak to?
  • @mowatmusic
    Such a hero, filmed in the worst possible way. :face-blue-covering-eyes:
  • @atarirob
    Him going straight into Giant Steps was so funny...and amazing!
  • @tyler_
    Are you kidding me? You had him right in front of his Prophet 5 and didn't ask him to play it? Forget everything else. I would give away my Prophet 5 in order to see him twiddle around on his for 5 minutes in 2020. This is upsetting. The makings for the most incredible keyboard interview.
  • @shookstylez
    woah. you could have used a microphone or something, he speaks so softly!
  • @COVENANT69
    Hearing Mr. Sakamoto play Giant Steps made my month! You people are horrible at capturing audio.
  • @SynthgodXXX
    Awesome! Thank you for sharing this!!!!!!!!!! A++++++++++
  • @Wulfcry
    Aaah the vault of an composer is truly a higher beings place the sounds of the instruments are like a good bottle of wine that has aged well to enjoy.
  • Rest well Sakamoto... You are missed. I'm curious to know, what are in the shelves by the window? They look too tall to be CDs, too uniformly thin to be books. If anyone knows, please do share
  • @Wayne_Robinson
    The sound is horrible to the point that the composer is unintelligible to me even with headphones on.. It would have made more sense to put the mic on the subject rather than the "interviewer". You might want to ask someone with audio post production experience about trying to salvage this with noise reduction, compression, and volume automation. It could definitely be improved considerably.
  • @sacceur6392
    I don't know why but I think Sakamoto appreciate jazz
  • @z-e-r-o-
    Giant Steps! Stella by Starlight! ドジャズを爪弾く教授は珍しい笑。でも、こうやって聴くとxsolのCM曲『Urlicht』のコードワークってコルトレーンの影響ありそうだなあ…。 RMIは/05のThousand Knives以外にも使ったのだろうか。チェレスタは『怒り』で使っていたような。この後、Pro5やArp 2600、EMS、Buchlaが前面に出てくる予感。 Tanks for posting this!
  • @frattuncbas
    Did you record this video and and with a toast machine?
  • @HombreAlterado
    no sólo pésimo el sonido, sino la cámara no encuadra nada y es un desorden para los ojos, por favor...si tuviera lo oportunidad de estar en el estudio de este maestro me tendrían que sacar con policía lo grabaría por horas y le preguntaría 40.000 cosas .. DO IT AGAIN!!!
  • @MogeChi
    Kawaii toy piano Is cute this sound, i talk spanish, so i don't understand much But i love the Sakamoto's smile, you are so lucky <3