Ryuichi Sakamoto

音楽図鑑 = Ongaku Zukan [Music Encyclopedia]. Slightly different to later international release "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia".

Smithereens is the second episode of the fifth series of the anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by Charlie Brooker and directed by James Hawes. The episode first aired on Netflix, along with the rest of series five, on 5 June 2019. It stars Andrew Scott, Damson Idris, and Topher Grace. Legendary artist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Revenant) produced the ambient and electronic score to Smithereens. His music plays a central role in the episode as it is at the core of the zen music playlist listened by the main protagonist.

Glass offers the sublime results of a collaboration between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), as performed and recorded at Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut during the private opening to Yayoi Kusama’s installation marking the 110th anniversary of Johnson’s birth.
Making sterling use of the landmark architectural work’s pellucid dimensions, the pair fixed contact mics to its glass walls, which they effectively played as an “instrument”, rubbing it with rubber gong mallets to generate delicate tones which they combined with a sympathetic palette of singing glass bowls, crotales, keyboards and mixers…