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is a Japanese recording artist and producer better known by his stage name . ==Career== Oyamada was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. His first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene. Following the disbandment of Flipper's Guitar in 1991, Oyamada donned the "Cornelius" moniker and embarked on a successful solo career. American music journalists often describe Cornelius's musical style as being similar to Beck Hansen's, whom he acknowledges as an influence along with The Beach Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and the Brazilian band Kassin + 2, among others. The music of Cornelius could be described as experimental and exploratory, and often incorporates dissonant elements alongside more familiar harmonically "pleasing" sounds. This tension, plus his practice of bringing in sounds and samples from mass culture, pure electronic tones, and sounds from nature (such as on his ''Point'' album), lead him to being sometimes categorized as an "acquired taste." He chose his pseudonym in tribute to the character of the same name from the movie ''Planet of the Apes''. He commissioned a song, about himself, on Momus' 1999 album ''Stars Forever''. Oyamada married fellow musician and collaborator Takako Minekawa in 2000 and they have one child, Milo, named after the son of Cornelius in ''Planet of the Apes''. He is a second cousin of Joi Ito. In 2005, The Spinto Band referenced him in their song "Japan Is An Island" on their album ''Nice and Nicely Done''. As of September 2006, he was no longer signed to Matador Records.〔(Plastic Bamboo » Matador not releasing new Cornelius album )〕 In 2006 and 2007 respectively, the song "The Micro Disneycal World Tour" from the ''Fantasma'' album, was used for Nick Parks' "Creature Comforts" and Sky television's "See, Surf, Speak" advertisements in the UK. It had also been used several years earlier in an ironic NFL (US football) television commercial in the USA, which juxtaposed the song's relaxing qualities with video clips showing rapid, aggressive football playmaking. In 2010, he contributed the song "Katayanagi Twins Battle Song" to the film ''Scott Pilgrim vs. The World''. In 2013, he participated with Taku Satoh and Yugo Nakamura directing the music for the exhibition Design Ah! at 21 21 Design Sight in Tokyo.〔(Design Ah! )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cornelius (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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