The essay centers around the music written for animated works by Yuji Nomi, a contemporary Japanese composer. At a first glance, Nomi’s style seems to pay a generic homage to XX century neoclassicism; however, it is also responding very well to the free cultural contaminations at the core of the audiovisual style of Japanese animation (often read as a “postmodern” attitude of this medium). In balancing between learned musical references and adherence to the anime aesthetics, Nomi finds an own, peculiar take on neoclassicism in a new context. His approach could be described as “postclassical”, as in “postmodern” plus “neoclassical”. To comment upon this concept, the essay analyzes selected examples from the films Whisper of the Heart (1995) and The Cat Returns (2002), as well as from the TV series “My Ordinary Life” (2011).
Neoclassical or postclassical? Yuji Nomi from animated cinema to animated TV series
BELLANO M
2018
Abstract
The essay centers around the music written for animated works by Yuji Nomi, a contemporary Japanese composer. At a first glance, Nomi’s style seems to pay a generic homage to XX century neoclassicism; however, it is also responding very well to the free cultural contaminations at the core of the audiovisual style of Japanese animation (often read as a “postmodern” attitude of this medium). In balancing between learned musical references and adherence to the anime aesthetics, Nomi finds an own, peculiar take on neoclassicism in a new context. His approach could be described as “postclassical”, as in “postmodern” plus “neoclassical”. To comment upon this concept, the essay analyzes selected examples from the films Whisper of the Heart (1995) and The Cat Returns (2002), as well as from the TV series “My Ordinary Life” (2011).Pubblicazioni consigliate
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