John UM
The music for Girl’s End Travel, which aired in 2017, has received warm support from animation enthusiasts. Suehiro Kenichiro said that the original work of this work is very beautiful, and the original author’s views of ideas, philosophy, つ く み ず were revealed everywhere. Therefore, in order to avoid music disturbing the picture as much as possible, he paid most attention to the simple composition and transparency
The requirements of the animation production team are simple, “use real instruments, suitable for doomsday world”, giving Sue Hiro a lot of room to play. In addition to the two girls, there are almost no other characters in the debut, and the plot is based on them. Therefore, the theme background music consists of the main melody and the sub-melody, and the voices of the two female singers are entangled. When composing, he hoped that the main melody and the sub-melody in the first half are not much different, showing the emotions and stories of the two girls
The soundtrack of Girl’s End Travel is soothing and soft overall, with fewer notes. Suehiro said that this work has been thinking about advancing the plot, which is similar to a dialogue play between two characters. He didn’t want music to interfere with the characters’ conversations and hinder the audience’s thinking. For this reason, he did not write any particularly stimulating songs, he was also very careful about the sense of rhythm, and deliberately avoided excessive performances
This work has given Matsuhiro a lot of thought. It took a long time to talk about the theme song alone, and the songs of the usual walking scenes were written over and over again. Although the stage of the work is a decadent doomsday, the characters of the two characters are not dark, which makes it difficult to grasp the temperature sense of the music. It is not appropriate to be too bright or too dark, or too inorganic
Sue Guang repeated trial and error, and finally cleverly mixed the elements of electronic music and real instruments, and wrote a piece of music with as few chords as possible. At the same time, he also carefully wrote about chords that were not restricted to big and small. When he composed, he always wrote from the motivations that would become the key to the work. After writing five or six motivations, he put these motivations into the appropriate scenes and music to build the bones. He mainly uses Steinberg Cubase software. All sound sources except real instruments are made with software synthesizers
In 2018, 6 works by Suehiro Kenichiro were broadcast. Among them, “Golden Prestige” is based on Sakhalin Island at the end of the Meiji era. For this work, Sue Hiro went to Hokkaido to gather materials, visit the Ainu National Museum, listen to the history of the locals, and go to the Ainu folk classroom. The rhythm of local traditional music and so on
Su Guang originally wanted to add elements of Ainu music to this animated music. The work tells the mystery of gold nuggets in history, with battle scenes, suspense scenes and exhausted tastes. He originally thought that the Ainu would hunt, and there should be fighting dances and the like. Unexpectedly, the Ainu people love peace, and folk songs are mainly composed of peaceful music. Although the soundtrack of the battle scene also added the feeling of Ainu folk songs, Sue Hiro felt that it was not enough to create a music that can create a stateless atmosphere. In addition, Ainu folk songs have elements similar to round singing, so the combat soundtrack also repeatedly develops the same phrases in a minimalist style
The commission of the animation producer is “when adding the national element, I want the feeling of westerns”. The original slogan of the comic was “Hefeng Dark Pot Western Manga”. There are many funny elements, and there are also strong historical elements. Sue Guang believes that customers just want to reflect this sense of temperature, so they propose western style music. Although this requirement was difficult, Suehiro felt that he had done it
In the same year’s “Working Cell”, the requirement of supervision was “don’t limit the region and country, and don’t care about the music genre”, so Su Guang wrote a piece of music that can be understood from every angle. In addition, Sue Hiro initially heard the saying that “the world view is a sports meeting.” Since it is a sports meeting, the scene of the battle is also very happy; because it is a story that takes place in the body, the battle can also be understood in a positive sense. Suehiro feels that this statement is wonderful, and also strives to fully reflect this feature in music
The music of “Working Cell” is the joint responsibility of Suehiro Kazuo and his composer MAYUKO. The two also collaborate frequently in other works. MAYUKO is a pianist who also sings on her own. She is good at lyric music. When the two collaborated, Suehiro himself was responsible for music such as fighting, and gave her the type that Mayuko excels at. The requirements of “Work Cell” are mostly in the type that Sue Hiro excels at, so he writes a large proportion of music; while “Escape Shameful but Useful” is about half each
Speaking of MAYUKO, animation enthusiasts may be more familiar with her another stage name, ゆ う ま お. As a creative singer, she once wrote and sang the theme song for the anime “Girls Love Girls”, and at the same time as a lyricist, composer for Ono Daisuke, Ito Jing, Nakahara Mai and other singers, singers. OP theme song “ ミ ッ シ ョ ン ! Jian ・ 康 ・ 第 ・ “ イ チ” is also from her hands. In addition, she and the male drummer ゆ ー ま お Although the stage names are similar, they have nothing to do with each other
This year, Suehiro Kenichiro once again oversaw Watanabe’s political cooperation with “Re: Zero” and provided music for the animation “Battle of the Full Moon”. During the meeting, the music concept proposed by Supervisor Watanabe was “Royal Robot Animation”. For this reason, Suehiro re-listened to “Mobile Suit Gundam” and other works, and added the concept of “modern girls show their skills in robotic work” to create an animated soundtrack
If you write according to Gundam’s impression, you can only write the same music. Therefore, the theme of “Battle of the Full Moon” refers to the orchestration of “Star Wars” and “Back to the Future”. Suehiro said that because music is difficult to express in words, it is inevitable to list the names of past works during the meeting. At the beginning, it is meaningless to write according to the works that people give names, so you must digest and absorb the reference works given, and write something new
And performers such as Watanabe, etc., can quickly understand the composer’s intentions, and use the new things written by the composer to explain to him in the right place. “Battle of the Full Moon” is also freely stuffed with Suehiro’s own explanation
The “Yanyan Fire Brigade”, which is still airing today, takes the earth of the future as its stage and has a strong personality. The stage setting is unique, but the content is a hero movie, which is clear from the enemy. Suehiro thought, in short, to write music that can ignite. This was also included in the film request, and he showed it with orchestral music
At the same time, the original author of “Burning Fire Brigade” Atsushi Okubo also paid great attention to music and gave specific requirements, such as James Blake’s “Digital Lion” and “Voyeur”. Electronic music. Suehiro composes these songs as the benchmark, adjusts the balance, and implements them into the music, making the music suitable for both scenes with and without lines and a soundtrack
The film party’s requirements are more specific, which will indeed be a challenge for the composer. Because this music by Okubo can easily overwrite the lines, but the soundtrack is always used where there are lines. However, Sue Guang believes that since the requester chose these pieces of music, it is because of the comprehensive emphasis on music in his conception, and he hopes that the overall sense of music is very high. So, while eliminating excess sounds, Sue Guang also wanted to give music a sense of existence and write a piece of music while grasping the balance. In addition, there are various items on the music demand chart. Sue Guang thought of “This music must have a strong sense of existence, and this music must be suitable for the dialogue scene”, and composed the music
Moreover, Su Guang said that fulfilling the needs of customers is his job. If the customers have any needs, he still hopes that the other party can tell himself
From the perspective of Sue Guang, video work is a comprehensive art created by many professionals together, and soundtrack is an important part of it, which can add several times to the wonderful picture. It can be the greatest charm of the soundtrack that can help the picture