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10 Oct 2009 - Fascinating Interview with VGM Alliance Creator
Following last week's interview with Yoko Shimomura, we are continuing our series of 'career insight' interviews. In this interview line, various veterans of the game music scene extensively reflect on their works while giving general insight into the industry and culture. Some of our contributors will be more known than others, but everyone we will interview has had a long and influential career.
This week we talk with Yuji Takenouchi, better known as TECHNOuchi by his fans. Takenouchi started off working with the Konami Kukeiha Club on games such as Metal Gear 2, Space Manbow, and X-Men where he pioneered club music and various technological innovations. He left to work for Sony on projects such as Circadia, Bravo Music, and TomaRunner before becoming a teacher. More recently, his career has revived with contributions to Ace Combat X, Demon's Souls, and Cave's arranged albums. In this interview, he tells the story of each of these projects and gives some fascinating insight into game music production in a more general sense.
As we announced last week, Takenouchi has just set up the VGM Sound Creator's Alliance, called GE-ON-DAN. It unites over 40 composers, including Yasunori Mtsuda, Hiroki Kikuta, Shinji Hosoe, Akira Yamaoka, and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. It also has a partnership with Square Enix Music Online and Video Games Live. In this interview, Takenouchi is given a chance to discuss the principles of the alliance for the first time and it's principle of "friendly rivalry". For much more, see here.
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