Ok ok were recording the interview of you video game music pastas is the shirt ok all good. 8 while that is the problem is that video game music is still ridiculed a bit. You start in the video games final fantasy one and final fantasy 6 right. And he was right as you can see here for yourself im the vampire on the upper right helps one of my 1st jobs in 1907 i was maybe 19. d and the speech you live when i play the game i play a sequence 203040 times i hear the music 30 or 40 times so gamers are already well acquainted with the musical sell when they come to the concert another concert. I remember when we went to london we got in touch sleep and the guy was just like looking around hes just like what is this a concert for him like whats going on are just like its for video game its for our fantasy and he was just like its already its its a concert thats dedicated to video game music or just like yeah whoa he was just so confused and be so if were talking about video game music then we need to talk about where it was born namely heres here at least in my opinion its human in 1907 with final fantasy one only seconds and im telling you today you can hear video game music in concert halls but it didnt just come from anywhere everything has a beginning. Now there are lots of stories but this one beats them all of a deal. Is the best. Was that it. Didnt look like the tide was extras insisting that it was. His face many people find it easy to say i recognize that music ive heard it before even when its music they dont like its an intuitive process with dolls and thats the intention of soundtrack music and movies and in video games you. Also followed up on this this bonanza pomerania playing super mario you folding down somewhere every 5 meet his eye and you hear a mean sound signal it is building up an unfolding into a story and its underscoring a level the story based games are different theyre often said to fiends reminiscent of film music seems entirely. I feel 56 that followed by the sea i was actually the music i said thats me its a. Motif if you like these days you feel fine if its a music one on the radio the music that i know she thinks she sticks with you. Like its you know i was actually speaking to this movie going to work thats a big dimension to the people who love this music people who associate the music with particular experiences within the game tom so naturally the music has come to signify something in and was exactly the sense of the story and special moments within the game when a specific piece of music was playing every single day 6 of this was easy to take shes in places and sometimes you. I think that the speed of the i found out about this concert on you tube so we looked at the program and since were playing final fantasy were like ok weve got to go. Very much melodies so both get us to music because i feel a lot of emotions. If you would says my mother politically the music is just as moving to a normal audience that has never in their lives had anything to do with finals and i suppose the power to cuz its been very intelligently crafted is that has story lines that has musical themes there are episodes of build ups there are episodes where everything explodes then implodes its extremely suspenseful and at times exerts the same psychological demands and the way it puts you through the wringer that justify a comparison to the works of Gustav Mahler was conducting composed of models. Because it does so this type of game is well its a role playing game as you do know what role play is. It in the. Ok if i think of final fantasy as one big adventure image it centers on the journey of a couple of heroes through a magical world across mountains valleys cities and at every corner theres evil lurking right and out there have been new installments since the 1980 s. Can you believe it no in each one of the totally new story of the most recent version is final fantasy 15 and i dont need to add that the music is legendary seek legal dance. For us to must because of the quality of the concerts produced by thomas booka in the area video game music is unsurpassed on the markets the. Loss of the market almost a sofa game is long and final fantasy 6 is 40 hours long thinks the arranger played it himself and try to incorporate the entire story the various themes the characters into this piece and thats the symphonic poem that fantastically arranged and orchestrated by roger want to know is the symphony poor so fog a seattle she had flung herself on the. Stands to defend steen so the fans who come to the concert can follow the symphony in dnd in their own imaginations a completely new image emerges the need. Underscored by the addition of a 4th dimension as an artist on this band task take orchestral music. I think that it is very difficult to arrange those melodies a lot of times with a fork a strategy because of the percussive nature of that music it was just like this that the sounds were so sharp and so like tight. But with final fantasy there are so many melodies that were meant to be slower and deeper and more introspective in nature that translate just absolutely perfectly magnificently into an orchestral piece by humanity eclipse basic compositions of. Music are of a very high quality for the tate they are the bedrock on which other things can be built using this music book to. Well i wasnt interested in composing 8 bit music i wanted to compose really normal music so the only work i could find was creating music from the. Movies and that was at a time when the term video game music didnt even exist. Under precisely the time square had its office in the same district that i lived in. That much the. Square square was a Small Company in tokyo full of young clueless people eager to make video games later as it stood when i met Nobuo Uematsu there he was really nervous but i could really sensitive myself even as i still remember how we sat around in a Small Company kitchen Square Square was about to shut down if they had made any money on their games this sort of this then in walks among called your nobu saga gucci and he says lets give it one last try just one more game what. Does the final game. He said he wanted to do a role playing game. And since it was to be the last game we put our heart and soul into it. Will. Died out hence the name final final fantasy the game was released on december 18th 1987100 mediately broke all records in japan but its true to say that final fantasy paved the road for all the roleplaying games that followed and im pleased to say that Nobuo Uematsu never again had to worry about finding work i really think he pioneered a form of music that never before existed in any game. He was a musical genius making such amazing music with such simple sounds. I started out at a time when the technology was in its infancy. Game console is at the time but didnt have as much as a handful of voices soto speak. They are which one i generate notes but he will helped toward you know that if they hadnt called so there wasnt much remaining when it came to creating the melody arguments question simply as a result those early melodies work stream is simple but to be fair because composers back then had to concentrate on the basics to craft a really nice melody arc of this v. They produced tracks that stuck and that years later you find youre whistling to yourself that wasnt a game of how to be tonal when i was told to make music with 8 bit and just 3 different notes i had my doubts that it was even possible. It wasnt easy for me at the time and i thought id love to include the sound of a flute or a piano or a drum. Smushed up that will even if i listen to it now i do think it sounds convincing bostock lol it conveys quite a lot considering its a 2 bit music and. It doesnt feel so outdated when lawson if an excitable couple want to get into the opening music gives me then the stall chick shivers here but it all started here there are so many moments with the fantasy that relate so much the music and then. Theyre just lovely to listen to i think its just a testament to. The billet to create themes thats why so many times they call him like the John Williams of videogame you say no but were not so in particular seems to be. Probably the best i think ive ever seen at being able to be transformative in his style of writing. From one scene which is orchestral and epic and big to something really silly that uses bossa nova or you know any kind of different style he dies in this so many different genres. Lots of fleas so much flows into im up to sons music rock johnson classical. One tomorrow and sometimes rock. 6 on bits of all but then theres also things like. Sounds very simple but it says it all he has a unique ability to create themes that relate to everything theres a person a place or a moment he is able to do that so effectively to communicate the exact right feeling that youre supposed to feel in the moment that that scene is happening and that is what has. I dont know i guess like that stood out to me so much about the way that he writes and about final fantasy music in particular above basically all the rest. In my mind a similar process happens in music because when youre talking to someone. Theres a lot of it is if you are using clear easily understandable words that the other person can instinctively understand. And Something Like that is what makes for a good melody. Say you are recounting something youve heard from someone else to do our job and the person youre telling doesnt get the whole picture they get caught up in our quote of how to really communicate with another person you need to use your own words you little to say what you feel yourself in your own heart. I generally expressed in very simple words most custom a b. That is one reason why my manatees are so successful because i really know nothing about the difficult and complicated method of the dictate how music should be expressed and i didnt question it still caused by fine and in final fantasy 6 and 7 in particular the images are not so detailed theyre perfect you know the characters are not yet so refined dog all you could do is make the character look down or Something Like that you know and it was like oh hes sad but how do you really communicate how sad he is you have to rely on music for that vision did not. Compose a melody for your character sheet. Yeah well he and i we talked a lot about it he really wanted to see as we get along great. I would sometimes but at the time he was composing the music for the game supervillain a character named kit. 6 as you all see until. He looks like a clown like a harlequin he has a joker like smiles to themas masterfully composed it has something clown like thought. Also something evil. We. Please. That was an arrival of the cdrom was a milestone suddenly you had a 650 megabyte disk and more space than you know what to do with and so we were like ok what we can do and what other media are already doing its video and red book audio so cd format as audio audio and that made it possible to compose much longer pieces mash by snow storage means more complex and. There were classical recordings that cetera suddenly we were able to say wait a minute we can take that and translate it directly into the world of Computer Games and that opened up a whole new market and the opportunity to do just that if it was offered to. People the productions have become increasingly complex the soundtracks are now recorded with an entire orchestra rather than being sampled on the computer computers ive built. In terms of format and the composition process where a composer sits down to write the score theres not such a big difference anymore between game music and film music game was if that difference exists at all anymore exist yet you dont you dont know the biggest difference is that a movie has a set duration but the duration of a video game is determined by the game. As if you are an individual can spend 50 sometimes up to 100 hours on a game. So you have to create music that is independent of the length and thats neither boring nor annoying. Interactivity its theres been research on interactivity suspense the stories being told but no one has examined the music thats so elaborately incorporated into many games. And that was the aim of the experiment. We wanted to see how the enjoyment and experience of a computer game is impacted when we had music. Thats untrue. And. But the 1st group played the game normally and you trappin you meant a soundtrack yeah one of the other group we simply turned the soundtrack off. We told them we were conducting an experiment into the experience of gaming. That we didnt tell them prior to the experiment that they would be playing with or without music. Then we allowed both groups to play for 20 minutes each afterwards gave them a short questionnaire we asked them to tell us how much fun theyd had and how they liked the game the group that played with the soundtrack accompaniment said i really felt transported into the game minutes caribbean setting the other group felt the same but not as strongly as are. The ones i can do to speed and if we know that Computer Games are fun for many Different Reasons and a players enjoyment derives from that mosaic and its music i knew zick is a key resource what music is an indispensable component as a creative medium video games are a synthesis of the arts and music is part of the design process. Thats going to our ability to easily memorize music gives rise to such experiences and patterns of recollection. Which is why gamers associate certain sounds arrangements and harmonies with specific stories places world or game genres alten. I think away much who was listening closely who hold by who if someones playing final fantasy for 100 hours you cant subject them to the same song the entire time and for instance my friend know who is an exceptionally gifted composer there are very many different wonderful melodies in the game. And then the soundtrack filled 3 c. D. s and since the individual pieces on video games are relatively short there are maybe 20 trucks on the cd. And. Was it 60 trucks it was even more i guess there were 70 to 80 songs on the soundtrack of final fantasy 6. And then weve seen that is not just the game alone that generates revenue on the soundtrack does 2 tricks for cars so today the music for a video game isnt just designed for the game its designed as a standalone product for a wider audience than it is. For the rest of it. When someone asks me what kind of music i listen to i always say video game music i think collecting it for a long time its been at least 20 years now and ive assembled quite a collection. And currently totals 217 albums from many different games across a wide spectrum of genres so its extremely diverse. Gamers have come to expect a certain sound for certain genres so for example if im designing a car racing game and orchestra wouldnt be the logical choice instead id stick with the mini format and produce the score electronically. I have a notebook and use the logical program as a sequencer. With a mini keyboard hooked up with about 24 keys now a days thats all you need to compose music well you must look at what it is i just dont. It must be jesus and the project got a larger budget i might recruit a big name from the house or Electronic Music Scene of course if you ask them to contribute a track and on track feature. You should be video games have become mainstream i mean like 10 years ago no one today will think youre weird if you say you play video games you should be to send with this growing acceptance that theres been a growing realisation that this is a big market also National Game producers try to team up with big names in the music business that its not just to boost their game sells but also to encourage participation thats been well known artists may be reluctant to collaborate on a project where people will be like oh a video game how weird you said today theyre like oh a video game cool cool for the 2nd activision asked Paul Mccartney if he wanted to collaborate on its game destiny and he said yes exactly and Simone Zimmer has written entire soundtracks or parts of the music for numerous video games including very successful tracks id like crisis to steam the hans zimmer track that they used instead task tick but its just like as the rest of the it is the rest of the soundtrack memorable from that standpoint and i think really theres a lot of main themes of games now that they seem to put everything into the main theme and then the rest of the soundtrack can be a bit mess the inclusion of composers like hans zimmer they have been done to try and promote video game music make it more recognised because you know a lot of the composers outside of say they arent very well known within the Wider Community and theyre not very familiar with say using. Jeremys soward jake ryan Tyler Christopher to just the kids like there are a lot of difference predicted and composers who have been very successful and they dont have the kind of wider. Acceptance and not just want to go home with more of the most stuff. But there are it is changing around a bit especially with video games live. Its a massive concert which is dedicated to a lot of different music and video games there is no julio were just making people more aware of that like final fantasy music is being paid with. Thank. You find it all in one letter for example someone wrote to me saying i went to a final fantasy concert and then took up the clarinet muscle or ive often heard ive joined an i want to brass band im very moved by such letters. That central people have come up to him and said i started out listening to your music but now im also listening to the likes of stravinsky and bass hovind and survived not at all im delighted that ive made such a meaningful difference. Saddam back in 1907 months and even though he sat there in the kitchen in front of me if you look young anxious guy scouring the job ads in the paper it was just one of many i know if you. And but in all his modesty Nobuo Uematsu has helped change the world and it is he invited the videogame world that is. Second hard as a freethinking conductor he has new ideas. That he thinks is interesting music and he also thinks its good music. For tron in mumbai weve encountered a lot of prejudice in many symphonic orchestras in germany who look down at video game music and think its beneath them to play such a score and. That its something cheap or reprehensible just because it was somehow finishes up but it would bank then they would say were an orchestra we play brahms and the like why would we play video game music of all things if they had their pride in the war for their loss its not like the orchestra itself that those instruments are foreign to kids today they just dont like that sound its just that the music that speaks to them is not whats being played in those concert halls not truly nationally young people arent immediately interested in an outdated all price its not part of their culture but games are omnipresent in todays youth culture. Omnipresent the music that my grandfather grew up with right like i dont go around listening to that they did it because it was it was made for his time it was made for people who thought the way he did and a society that function the way that it at that time and the music that i listen to is made for my time and speaks to me in a different way and that gave me see him an integral part of the gaming scene an art form that attracts a large specialized audience the way others go to the opera its pop you can get the audiences emotionally so attuned disquiet if you could hear a pin drop and complain were cultivating a whole new generation of concert goer from some 15 because for many. Of the 15 to 35 year olds attending these concerts its their 1st encounter with the sound of a large classical orchestra sound and as colson classes marcus to us since the 1st on the ice so i think i you hear it strikes me hearing from many different you know physicians could see sunlight i am just a number of the 40 and if you just close your eyes just a 2nd just taking owning a listing told each interesting news it is just absolutely restitution we have to suppress take it come back come back with the final symphony as its like rearranged its it does make it different it does make it fresh and nao orchestra the old destruction have a lot of fun and the audience can let themselves go. But she doesnt just as a conductor of Classical Music i know that the next time i take on a position as an orchestra as musical director ill put this symphony on the 2nd part of the symphony concert will these a symphony should be a. 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