Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee: on Nostr: in college i wrote a paper for a film sound design class on Miyazaki's Nausicaa, ...
in college i wrote a paper for a film sound design class on Miyazaki's Nausicaa, which was of course scored by the great Joe Hisaishi
turned out that's the composer's stage name, which he devised as a reference to Quincy Jones:
> As he became better known, Hisaishi formulated an alias inspired by American musician and composer Quincy Jones: "Quincy", pronounced "Kuinshī" in Japanese, can be written using the same kanji in "Hisaishi"; and "Joe" came from "Jones".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi#cite_ref-4
turned out that's the composer's stage name, which he devised as a reference to Quincy Jones:
> As he became better known, Hisaishi formulated an alias inspired by American musician and composer Quincy Jones: "Quincy", pronounced "Kuinshī" in Japanese, can be written using the same kanji in "Hisaishi"; and "Joe" came from "Jones".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi#cite_ref-4