In 1969, Tomita heard the Switched-On Bach album of American composer Wendy Carlos and became fascinated with the possibilities of the Moog III analog synthesizer. It won a Special Medal of Merit at the 1967 Japan Art Festival. Tomita adapted this music as a tone poem.
The best known of these, internationally, was White Lion, a documentary aired in the USA on NBC. This led to a commission to write a theme song for the Japanese Olympic team, and for various film and television projects. Among the first was Wind Mills, a choral song chosen as the mandatory test piece for competitors for Best Choral Group in the Japan Federation of Choral Organizations. His early compositions were for traditional acoustic instruments. At the same time, he studied both music and electronics with private teachers. He always had an interest in music, but he majored in art history at Tokyo's Keio University.
His father took him to Peking (now Beijing), China, when the boy was three years old. He is best known for transcriptions of colorful late romantic or impressionist orchestral works, but is also a composer of his own original music. Isao Tomita is one of the most famous producers of synthesizer arrangements during the heyday of the analog electronic instruments (roughly 1968 to 1983). Title: The Tale Of Genji, Symphonic Fantasy zipĩ43 downloads at 22 mb/s Artist: Isao Tomita Isao Tomita - The Tale Of Genji, Symphonic Fantasy (2011) SACD.
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