山城組芸能

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (芸能山城組) is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19 1974 by Shoji Yamashiro, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc.

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (芸能山城組) is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19 1974 by Shoji Yamashiro, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc.

This array of talents and ideas brings a peerless degree of creativity to their work, which is known for a skillful fusion of traditional music with high technology. For example, in the 1980s, MIDI digital synthesizers could not handle the tuning systems of traditional gamelan music, so the group had to start from scratch, teaching themselves how to program in order to modify their equipment. This was while they were working on what would become their most well-known work, the soundtrack of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.