Conventions
Since 2005, Lisa Furukawa has been primarily known for her work with cartoon and video game theme songs and touring Japanese animation and media conventions around the world. She began performing at events such as MTAC (the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention), Realmscon, Mechacon, Otakon, Anime Central, SAC-Anime. In the following years, she performed at over 50 conventions around the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia (Armageddon Expo). Furukawa was the first anime guest at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been invited to return year after year to many events. Her performances often surprise audiences with intricate original arrangements of music from series such as Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain. She has performed music composed by Yoko Kanno and Akira Yamaoka with vocalists such as Ilaria Graziano and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. In addition to creating new arrangements of anime and video game theme songs, Furukawa is the first person to have translated almost all of the American state songs and foreign national anthems into Japanese. She also has translated many English children's songs into Japanese. As a translator, Furukawa helped to translate anime trailers and documentaries for Studio Ghibli.
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
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—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole—so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader’s consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)