John UM
On December 28th this year, the Tokyo International Forum will hold a concert entitled “Composers Summit Concert 2018”
The starring of this concert is the name of Zhapu Yu, who played the music for the “Different Legends” series and “Magic Girl Madoka”, and the names of the songs that have played music for the “Legend” series and “GOD EATER” series. Hao is an active composer in the animation and game industry. Well-known composer Senju also appeared as a special guest, playing pieces of works such as “Mobile Suit V Gundam” and “Fullmetal Alchemist”
Before the concert, the game media 4Gamer.net interviewed Zhapu and Shiina and listened to their creative style
At the end of last year, Shi Minghao received a contact and asked him “Would you like to try a concert?” But at the time, the name of the vertebra had almost no experience in the band playing, so no response was given immediately. In June of this year, the “Legend of Festival 2018” special event series “Tales of Festival 2018” arranged the concert session of Shiina. The performance was very smooth, and I made up my mind to try my own concert
At the beginning of the invitation, the organizer has already listed the name of Yuki. For Shiina, Zhapu is an unattainable figure. He can play with Zhapu and he is also afraid of it
Like the name of Shiina, Zhapu received a commission from a year ago. However, she took the invitation on the spot. After that, she learned that Shiina’s name will also appear. I thought: I will definitely launch an offensive in the performance, and I must try my best to play my personality and not lose to him
Although they are long-awaited for each other, in fact, this is the first time such a long talk. Shiina and Zhapu met for the first time. It was the backstage of the “Machi★Asobi Vol.11” event held in 2013. Shiina went to say hello to Zhapu
However, as early as that decade ago, the two had already had indirect contacts. Zhapu is the music of the “Different Legends ep.2 The Other Side of Good and Evil” (released in 2004), and “Myths and Legends” (issued in 2005) with the name of Shiina, the development department of the two games is a neighbor. The production teams of these two games are trying to combine music composition with pre-recording to create music sound effects. Therefore, Shiina’s near-water platform borrowed the music of Zhapu and made various experimental explorations
Zhapu, who rarely participated in game music, realized how great the people who made the game music at the time. They have to make music from one sound, and the capacity that can be applied has a fixed limit. “Different Legend 2” is okay, and some games start with the production of sound sources, and it takes 1 year to make a soundtrack. Moreover, although Zhapu consciously made a good tone, but compared with the professional game composer’s genealogy, it is a shame. She realized how deep the sound source technology has accumulated in game music
梶浦由记 is the game cover of the music “The Legend of the Alien ep.2 The Other Side of Good and Evil”
And Shiina’s thoughts are just the opposite. When I heard the music of Zhapu, I sighed: “The people who mainly write film and soundtracks have completely different music patterns.” Previous game music, mostly with Fusion type music. When he listened to the music of “The Legend of Alien ep2”, some of the music was full of exotic style, which made him think “Which country is this song?” The development of this musical style made him shocked
梶浦反问: Does the name of Shiina often write folk music? Shiina’s self-deprecation, he wrote the “cottage national wind”. Zhapu replied that her own national style is also a “cottage”. She believes that background music is very important to understand, so in many cases, after a certain degree of simplification, the music will play a better role. Therefore, it is not always necessary to write authentic Celtic music or African music. The so-called writer’s personality may be reflected in the fact that everyone’s “cottage” is different
The two works mentioned above – “The Legend of Alienation ep2” and “Myths and Legends” are series sequels. The composition of “The Legend of Alienation ep1 Power Will” is Kodak Kangdian, and the “Legend” series was previously composed by Sakuraba. On the occasion of taking over the new chapter, do the two composers have to worry about the music they made before?
Zhapu said that the music of “The Legend of Alienation ep1” is very good. However, as a commercial project, in what form and to what extent the music of the previous works is not dominated by the composer. So in this sense, she did not take into account the music of the previous work
椎名豪 served as the cover of the “Myths and Legends” OST of music
And the situation of Shiina, it is not the same. When he first participated in the “Legend” series, the pressure was very small. To be honest, at first, he was not less criticized. At that time, he wanted to publish the prototype of the music in the company. He wanted to try to inherit the style of Sakuraba, but it was too difficult to imitate the strong music of Sakura.
So, Shiina decided to write “the legendary music in her own heart”, discussed with the producers, and finally used the actual orchestra performance. At the beginning of the game development, I originally planned to use all the built-in synthetic sound sources of the game console to play music. However, Shiina made a request and hoped to switch to the performance recording. I also asked the production team to modify the program… although every step of the way made him very nervous, but things Looking back now, he has completed a work that he can happily do
When asked what they noticed when making music, Shiina replied that his dream is to travel around the world, so pay attention to writing “Works that can simulate the experience of world travel”: in the port berth, visit the country here, Experience this kind of experience… This kind of RPG-like worldview is what he pays attention to when composing
梶浦 says that when writing music for an animation, she will be faithful to the “broadness” of space. On the contrary, real-life works can be “betrayed” to a large extent. For example, in a vast space, even if a clean piano sounds, it can sound very handsome. But if it’s so high in the animation, it will make the audience feel that the picture is “squeaky” and shrinks. Therefore, she would intentionally “use music to suggest the breadth of space.”
Also, if you use a bright sound in a dark scene, the music will play. So she will also choose the tone of the music in combination with the amount and weight of darkness in the background
椎名 says that when playing the soundtrack for an animation, he will use the particle’s performance, add a shiny and bright synthesizer sound, and add the sound of the approximate effect sound in combination with the rhythm of the music. The climax of music is heard
“The Legend of Passion” game and animation music are all played by Shiina
There is a big difference between games and animations, that is, the presence or absence of “interaction”. This will also have an impact on music production
Shiina said that when composing for the game, he thought that “the hero of the music” is not the protagonist, but the player. Even if the character of the game’s protagonist is sunny, the player may not be
In addition, the game music is often ringing all the time, which is one of the characteristics of the game. So, animation can be created in a silent atmosphere, what should be done in the game? This is also a problem. The solution for Shiina’s name is to intentionally add an interruption to the music. If the timing of the interruption matches the player’s feelings, it will have a strong psychological impact on the player. When writing a score for a fixed-length plot event, he will compose with the feeling of designing a feeling curve
“The Legend of Alienation ep.2” OST cover
The “Different Legends” series of music played by Zhapu is a script-based game, so the soundtrack of the plot scenes is not much different from the animation. But in a scene like battle, music needs a single loop, and she felt at that time that even if there could be ups and downs in music, it is best not to add emotional ups and downs to the music
When writing a soundtrack to an animation, she can anticipate the actual use of the clip and write emotional ups and downs for the song. However, in the game, it is the players themselves that generate emotions. Zhapu intentionally does not interfere with the players. In addition, she still remembers that she is very distressed. The battle scene should stir up the atmosphere and let the music loop. In the end, she will give up on herself and think, “I will write it in a handsome way!” Legend of the music of ep2
Speaking of the music and the player’s feelings, in recent years, the game industry has developed the technology of “interactive music”, in conjunction with the game to control the music
The work in Shiina’s current production has also tried this technique. However, he feels that at this stage, the program cannot control everything. For example, the idea that “the music becomes tense when HP is reduced” cannot be combined with the feeling of “like a stimulating player.” When HP is close to 0, the player will feel flustered or feel refreshed, and the program can’t judge
Although Shi Minghao is now a composer widely known for game and animation enthusiasts, in fact, he started learning music after becoming an employee of Nanmeng Palace (now Bandai Nanmeng Studio). Of
Shiina’s home is an electronic piano training class. But when he was a child, there was a trend, and he felt that “the keyboard was too young,” so he didn’t touch the music, but played a young baseball. It was not until he entered the game company that he started making music. There was no DAW at the time, he used Excel to make sequence data
梶浦 said that in her time, someone used the numeric keypad to write drums in the Recomposer software. This experience of composing with special methods resonated with her
梶浦 also asked where the name of the name is to learn how to play the score. She felt that until yesterday, she used computer games to write computer-generated music. Today, she suddenly turned to the real orchestra to write music scores. This is a very human ability
Shiina said that he himself was actually crossing the river by touching the stones in the beginning. At that time, even others said to him “the chord of the song” he looked awkward. It was under the guidance of a colleague that he understood it a little and completed the composition
Zha Pu said that she knew little about chords in the era of amateur bands. When she wrote the song, she played the piano for the band members, letting them remember the melody of the instrument. After entering the line, others said to her, “Please give me a string,” she first learned that she still needs such a thing
In addition to this performance, Zhapu Yuki and Shiina Ho will cooperate to play music for the TV animation “Ghost Blade” which will be broadcast next year
Two composers who have made a name for themselves are not systematically educated at the beginning. So it seems that they have achieved today’s achievements because they have no fixed ideas
梶浦 denied it. She said that there are things that can be done after learning; there are also things that can be learned without learning. Both exist. But she believes that knowledge itself is definitely better than nothing
But learning the word is easy, and it can be laborious to do it. Shiina said that he had bought a lot of music theory books for one or two thousand yen, but to be honest, he still didn’t understand it. He made up his mind to buy a book with a price of up to 8,000 yen, but he still couldn’t understand it. Although reading can learn the knowledge of fur, it may not be able to really use it in his own music
梶浦 also said that you can understand the music that you already know by reading the theory. People who usually listen to jazz may understand jazz theory; but music that they have never heard before, even if they start learning from theory, it doesn’t make sense. You must start with more listening. Theories are all statistics and summaries. They are used by people who have listened to a lot of music to sort out the knowledge in their own minds
Therefore, the work that the two can make restrictions does not only require diligence, but also the technology that is actually mastered at the scene
梶浦由记 will play the music in the animation “Fate/Zero” at the concert
Zhapu was debuted as a member of the band and was only interested in writing songs. However, once she received a plan to write a pure instrumental music, she wrote three pure musical instruments for the first time. At that time, her songs often invited other arrangers to help arrange the music, but she felt that pure instrumental music can be arranged by herself, so she began to work hard to write pure instrumental music. Written and written, suddenly received the work of the soundtrack
I heard this here, and I remembered that I wouldn’t listen to pure music before I entered the line. I didn’t know that the original soundtrack would be sold in the market. And Zhapu is similar to him, she is almost insulated from the movie, and even Star Wars has not seen it. However, after working with the video works at work, she understood that the original music can have such a big impact on the impression of the picture, which can touch people’s hearts. Since then, she has fallen in love with pure instrumental music. She personally realized that the same picture, just because of sad music, happy music, or no music, can bring great changes to the scene. The background music was so interesting that she captured her heart
As in Suipu, vocal material is often used in background music. At first, his music will encounter various problems, such as the coincidence of vocals and characters, or the atmosphere of the scene. However, when he started playing RPG himself, he began to understand that sometimes, for example, in the sad scene of more games, you can’t use vocal material and songs. It should be pure music
When composing music for animation and games, the composer will get the information of the work. Among the various materials, what is the biggest help to them and what do they value most?
椎名 says that when he participates in game music production, he will get the background art settings. From these settings, he can understand the general situation of the country in the play and decide what kind of music style to adopt. In addition, the composition of the characters will also determine the tune of the music
梶浦 is a fancy script, and it would be better if you had the original work. However, she also understands the importance of the background art mentioned by Shiina. If you don’t know the breadth, color, and brightness of the stage, it’s hard to decide the tone; so she wants to get the settings
In addition to Zhapu Yuji and Shiina Hao, the famous composer Senju also appeared in the Composers’ Summit Concert 2018 concerts
The cover of “Mobile Suit V Gundam” OST1 by Qian Zhuming
In the view of Zhapu, Qianju is a writer who can write slender and beautiful music. Although she did not know that it was inappropriate, the style of Qianshou was feminine and feminine. She claimed that her music was a lot of rude, so she was very eager to write so beautiful and elegant music
Shiina’s work evaluates the works of Qianshou, but it can hide emotions such as fear and sadness. The lively works of Qianshou have both “strong” and “beauty”, which also makes the name of the vertices very admired
Finally, the two composers also commented on the upcoming Composers’ Summit Concert 2018
梶 说 她 她Ample, it can bring a satisfying performance. She also wants to carefully choose the performances, so that people who have never heard of her music can also have fun in this performance
椎名 hopes that the three performances of the concert can be a story. Because the event was held at the end of December, he also hopes to be the most precious memory of this year
椎名 believes that the event can bring a very tense performance that can be brought by the three composers. To be honest, he wants to sit down and listen to the performance as an ordinary audience. He will try not to drag the other two legs
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