Tag: soundtrack

  • Community music

    Community music

    In Tokyo-ga, his 1985 documentary about Japan and the cinema of Yasujiro Ozu, German director Wim Wenders observes that, despite never having been there, he feels he knows Japan intimately through having watched so many Japanese films, including those of Ozu. I feel exactly the same, but nevertheless I still harbour a burning desire to go…

  • Music for writing: Top 10

    Music for writing: Top 10

    Academic writing can be frustrating, anxious, infuriating and slow – particularly when you are running up against deadlines you agreed to months before, and which you now realise were preposterously optimistic. However, it is also one of the pleasures of the job. I look forward to those days when I can shut myself in my…