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smartblue
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:20 am |
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| Lurky wrote: |
| Law of the West, provided you play like this |
That is actually hilarious.
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smartblue
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:50 am |
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Touching back on the Drackengard soundtrack, Nobuyoshi Sano was recently interviewed by Game Set Watch about the Nintendo DS Korg DS-10 and the Drackengard soundtrack was brought up. This is good stuff since I figured he'd never be asked about it ever again.
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GSW: At EXTRA you performed your electronic software live, but for the game Drakengard you took live orchestral music and treated it electronically. Seeing as the two musical ideas seem like inverses of the other, was it in your mind at all during EXTRA?
Sano: These projects were similar in the sense that no one had ever done them before. The beauty of exploration through music was an important motivation on both.
GSW: The amount of interest that listeners have expressed in your music with Takayuki Aihara for Drakengard appears only to have increased with time. What was the kernel of the idea behind it and do you have any interest in taking this unique musical experiment further in the future?
Sano: In a way, I was interested in working on a musical concept I had heard explored by the Chemical Brothers. They had used the sounds of the guitar and reconstructed it through techno. Quite often you find that the use of the guitar is implicitly prohibited in techno. Observing this idea, I thought about applying a techno design to reconstructing orchestral music.
The game Drakengard revolved around the concept of the player being overwhelmend by opponents that must be defeated, complemented by a storyline that grows chaotically out of proportion as it progresses. I tried to express that in the music, but for the player that expected a traditional RPG music style, it was disappointing. They complained of it being repetitive and grating. Some of the criticism was, let's say, very harsh.
However, more recently I have begun to receive a number of positive comments from listeners, as you just mentioned. Although the soundtrack is still rather niche, it is gratifying to see more and more game players' opinions resonating with the composers' original intentions. For my own personal feelings, I still like the originality and the intensity of the music. If someone were to ask me to return to this style, especially if it were for a film score, I'd put everything else on hold and focus all of my attention on it. It's gratifying to have the chance to talk about the soundtrack again, since it has after all received negative feedback in certain circles. |
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