Extra Hyper Korg DS-10
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »From left to right: Michio Okamiya (The Black Mages), Nobuyoshi Sano (Ridge Racer), and Yasunori Mistuda (Chrono Trigger) The Korg DS Trio performed techno arrangements of songs from Final Fantasy, Ridge Racer and Chrono Trigger at the EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event. An ...
Hiroki Ogawa e il cammino verso la Dog Ear Records
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »This is the first article since "Kikuta's Lost Files Regained" that I've written in an editorial style that combines quotes taken from an audio interview with background research. The subject of the article is Hiroki Ogawa, the director ...
Music of Mega Man 9: Original & Arranged
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »GameSetWatch - Remixing the Mega Man 9 Soundtrack Gamasutra - The Story Of The Mega Man 9 Arrange Soundtrack (cross-posted) Siliconera - Mega Man 9 Original Soundtrack Interview (Both interviews available in Portuguese and Japanese)
The Music of Yakuza 2
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »The original Japanese-langauge version of Siliconera's interview with Hidenori Shoji and Hideki Sakamoto on Yakuza 2 is now online. The translation is by Ryojiro Sato, who also worked on the Echochrome music interview with Sakamoto-san. The article is being hosted ...
PAX 08 media smorgasbord
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »Nobuooo 9.08 Update Sound Current: PAX 10 Part 1/2 Sound Current: PAX 10 Part 2/2
Remixers on Street Fighter & Final Fantasy
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »Two interviews have been posted to Siliconera this weekend on music remix projects for popular game series. Malcos of OverClocked ReMix has arranged themes from Street Fighter II for the HD Remix version that will appear on the XBox Live ...
Godel, Echochrome, Bach
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »The interview with game composer Hideki Sakamoto has now been posted to Siliconera. The conversation is on the subject of his classical music score to the puzzle game Echochrome. The musician also serves as the representative director of ...
Sakura-Con
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Interviews | No Comments »On April 11 and 12, I attended Seattle's Japanese popular culture convention as a reporter for Siliconera. My knowledge of manga and anime is fairly limited in comparison to gaming culture, so only a handful of events strongly interested ...
Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Interviews | No Comments »Hiroyuki Iwatsuki is a videogame composer who has been working since the Famicom and Super Famicom console eras. His first published videogame music album, to Chaos World, came out in the Halcyon days of the Nintendo Entertainment System. ...