John UM
Animation and music are inseparable. Animation works can gain worldwide support and cannot be separated from the power of music. Today, Japanese animated songs are as widely known as J-POP, and the quality of the soundtrack is not inferior to that of real people. How is the current animation music born?
“Keyboard Magazine” published the “Relationship between Animation and Music” in the fall of 2019. Please go to a number of animated music and animated songs, listen to the testimony of the parties, trace the footprints of the masters, analyze the scores of the famous songs, and answer the animation. The process and technique of forming this relationship with music
末广健一郎, now a popular writer active in the soundtrack of video works, with the series “Memorandum of Today’s Son”, “Escape from Shame but Useful”, “Miss Sherlock”, Animation “Re: From scratch The best-selling works such as “World Life”, “Goblin Killer” and “Flame Fire Brigade” are widely known
When he was in his teens, he formed a punk band and served as a drummer for his interest. He also wrote punk and rock-style songs during the period. But since then, he likes pure instrumental music. Even if it is a band’s album, sometimes a pure instrumental music will be placed on the first track or the last track. At the end of the decade, he is always listening to this music. In addition, he also likes film and television dramas, so the frequency of listening to the original soundtrack is getting higher and higher
Young Shouguang originally only listened to music as his own interest. However, one day, the friend inadvertently said: “Why is this chord going to this chord so handsome?” Wake up: He never thought about this kind of thing. Since that day, this thought has been lingering in the mind of the end. He thought, instead of playing a band, let’s learn to compose music. So, Wei Guang ran to read the music professional school
Compared to the band, Sohiro wants to write a soundtrack. He is also a film music major in the composition department at a professional school. To become a composer, you must learn composing theory, soundtrack, and arranger theory. He learned this knowledge in school and did not even talk about it. Even when he was absent, he would skip to other professional classes. At the end of the day, I thought that I had to learn to understand clearly, so in addition to the time of the band activities, he has been learning
So far, I still remember that when he first entered the school, he didn’t even know what he was going to learn. The first time he heard the word “DTM” (computer music) at the first day of the school.He asked the person next to him: “What is DTM?” The other person was shocked: “You don’t even know if DTM is coming to this school?! So a cow?”
But because of nothing, Soka can enjoy learning. Including the keyboard necessary for composition, he also learned in the process of composing music after entering the school, and did not play it. He wanted to do the soundtrack work, even if he couldn’t play, at least he had to write a piano tune that described emotions, and he started practicing
After graduating from a professional school, Sohiro wanted to find a job that could learn something and help the future, and entered a music production company. He makes the karaoke source every day at the company, and when he returns home, he learns the orchestration and exercises composition. Mr. Zou Guang felt that the people who wrote the soundtracks were all elites who had been born from the small piano and the music university. They could not do it without hard work and hard work. He has been thinking about how to make up for the weakness of his foundation is not as good as others. But he didn’t have a man like Master, and he couldn’t find a place to hire him as an assistant
When I was 24 or 25 years old, I thought that I couldn’t stop doing this so much. It’s time to make a decision. I have to live on music for the rest of my life, or I have to find another way out. He quit his job, made up his mind, and worked hard for one year. If he couldn’t, he gave up music and took a different path
However, at the time of the end, there was almost no place to recruit a composer. What should I do? He thought, can you support yourself by writing songs first? I am sorry for those who are serious about writing songs. However, at the end of the day, he could only find advertisements for composers who wrote songs. So he spent a few songs writing to writers, record companies and composers. Just a year after he quit his job, he was fortunate enough to receive a reply and entered the writer’s office POPHOLIC
In the office, Sugahiro Kenichiro frequently participated in the bidding and started the road of song composers. While giving people a sample of the song, like Xianglin, he said, “In fact, I want to write a soundtrack.” He wrote the ED theme song for the anime “Tear of Real” and “Tears to Tiara”, so he met the producer of the animated music production company Lantis. The producer is also responsible for the soundtrack. He chased the producer and stalked and smashed his mouth and said, “I want to write a soundtrack.” The producer was so troubled that he had to reluctantly hand over the soundtrack of “The Ramp of the Twilight” to him
In this way, the 28-year-old Shouguang finally realized the dream of writing a soundtrack. After all, it was the first time to do this work. He found that he didn’t understand too much. He felt that he was using his body while he was squatting. Live, wait for God to have finished. Although he had experienced the recording of string music while writing songs, the whole string compilation was the first time; it was the first time to write 40 or 50 songs in a short time. Animated music is a song written on the demand table prepared for the mirror, script and sound supervision. This kind of work is also the first time, very nervous. The producer who took care of him gave him various advice
The content of “Dyeing into the Twilight” mixes the elements of love comedy and action, and the client tells Douglas, in short, it can be written with reference to Hollywood love comedy. Putting it today, the end of the world thinks that this is a type that is easy to conceive; but at that time, he had no experience, it is hard to think of how to write. This also blames him for the first time to experience the orchestra recording, but he is swollen and fat, saying that he is very good at orchestral, because if you don’t say so, you can’t get the job. The cowhide was blown out and it was always round, but he did not feel good at all, and it would arouse the customer’s anger
Although the work of the first soundtrack was done well, I thought that I had experienced orchestral recordings in this work, which would be of great help in the future
Later, the end of the transfer to the ONE MUSIC. There, he began to play many soundtracks for TV series. He participated in nearly 30 TV series in 5 years. Although there are works with other composers, it is still very amazing production
The hard work of this time brought a turn for his career. More and more supervisors or producers invited him to create music because he watched the TV series he participated in. For example, “Re: Life from a different world from scratch” is to supervise Watanabe politics to watch his soundtrack TV series “Death Organs” and “Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun”, and he likes his music before making an invitation. At this point, his efforts in the TV drama industry began to bring about the work of the animation industry, forming a virtuous circle
末广说, TV dramas and animations have different music requirements. Japanese TV dramas tend to be close to life, content and reality. The theme of animation is rich, from everyday classes to fantasy classes. The content will also range from the fierce battle to save the world to the romantic comedy. And there may be a large span in the same work. Therefore, there are more scenes and more songs to be envisaged when creating an animated soundtrack
Moreover, the amount of information that reality and secondary pictures have is different. The reality of the drama is the atmosphere can create a feeling, and the animation has to use sound effects and music to fill the difference in information, or people will feel that the music performance is better. Doo Guang believes that animated music needs to add more information
In 2016, Suehiro Ichiro was responsible for the music animated film “Re: Life from a different world from scratch” and the TV series “Escape from Shame but Useful”, which made him famous in both the animation industry and the real world drama industry
As mentioned above, the opportunity for the end of the “Re: Zero” was the live drama “Death Organizer” broadcasted earlier. This work is about the story of visceral trading between Taiwan and Japan in China. The content is very heavy. “Re: Zero” supervised Watanabe’s politics, “I hope to match the music that makes people feel like watching a documentary,” so in the animation, he wrote a heavy piece of music with an Asian atmosphere. In particular, the early “Re: Zero” has suspenseful tones, and there are many chilling scenes, so the supervisor wants him to write terror songs
Sohiro thinks that he is more suitable to write this kind of music that can see the dark side of the human heart, so when he received the “Re: Zero” commission, he was overjoyed: “I have been waiting for a long time!” Because the last time he was the main force to serve as the soundtrack on the ground. The wave TV series is “The reason why I can’t fall in love”. It has set up such an image. After a long time, the works that took over are mainly based on love, so when the “Dead Organs” was sent to commission earlier, he also Say hello inside. The end of the drama said that he may be more angry when writing dark songs
“Re: Zero” has many dark and cruel descriptions. At the end of the day, it is felt that the tension of Watanabe’s supervision of the music may also be in line with the wavelength of his own feelings. The supervisory requirement: “In a suspense scene, you don’t have to step on the brakes, you write the dark song of “Death Organizer.”” In the lyrics, the supervisor wants the music that Ennio Morricone touches
One of the opportunities for learning about composing music at the end of the day was touched by Ennio Morricone. In “Dark Gold Ugly Island,” he also wrote a reference to Morricone’s harmony. Supervisor saw “Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun”, and when he heard the piece of music, he hoped that “Re: Zero” also used Morricone-style music to express emotions. The end of the general understanding of the supervision, while paying attention to the atmosphere of “Re: zero”, created music
As for the daily scene, the supervisor also wants to forget these dark things and write them like “animation” sounds. Sohiro understands that in some places, if it is a real drama, the atmosphere will be more simple and calm, and it is necessary to perform more cutely at this time. In particular, this work is headed by the heroine Emilia, and the girls who appear are very cute, so his music is also very cute
“Re: Zero” is the TV version that has written 60 songs. The hardest part of it is the theme song of the villain Bertrugius. The number of notes in this song is very large. He wants to write a piece of music with a heart, and because the character has a sense of religion, he also refers to Beethoven’s harmonies when composing, and writes the first one we heard “Despairと 赎罪のヒュムネ》 (the hymn of love and atonement). Du Guangxiao said that this song name is very troublesome
Speaking of the title of the song, the end of the animation soundtrack, the title is from their own. He imagined what kind of title he would like if he was an audience and chose a topic that would be immersed in the worldview. In addition, he does not want to use the words too restrictive, will avoid the words appearing in the works, hope that the name will make the audience feel the world of the work is further broadened