Masakatsu Takagi
Japanese electronic music composer
Masakatsu Takagi (高木 正勝, Takagi Masakatsu; born 1979) is a musician and visual artist from Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan. He is well known for writing scores for director Mamoru Hosoda's films, alongside his solo work.
Career
Takagi's work as a visual artist has been showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art. His work was noticed by Apple Inc., and he was featured in a 3-minute promotional video for the company about how Takagi creates his videos on a Macintosh system, and Apple Pro software, including Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. He also uses Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop in his videos.
From a period in 2003 to 2004 he toured with David Sylvian on the "Fire in the Forest" Tour, creating visuals to accompany the performances. The two later collaborated on the track "Exit/Delete" from Coieda (2004).
In 2011, Takagi's song "Nijiko" was used in a video for an Intel's "Museum of Me". The video won six awards at the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
He wrote the score for Mamoru Hosoda's films Wolf Children (2012), The Boy and the Beast (2015) and Mirai (2018).
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