Kenji Kawai
The movie score composer Kenji Kawai chose three kinds of music to illustrate the show. One part was made of synthesizer-based new-age pieces, similar to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the other themes are typically Japanese. One was based on the use of taiko, the folkloric drums backing Noh polyphonic chants sung by a chorus of seven women — This is Kawai's signature since Mamoru Oshii's critically acclaimed and cult "anime" feature film, "Ghost In The Shell". The other was the remaining meditative part combining Zen music with the soundtrack's natural audio effects.