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Nobuo Uematsu
It is a joy again and again to meet Nobuo Uematsu. Hardly someone is as relaxed, friendly and sympathetic as the composer first 11 final Fantasyepisodes. Owing to concert supervisor Thomas Boecker we could welcome Uematsu also this year again to a detailed discussion. And that may pursue you now here.
Gorilla: How did the concert of yesterday in the Leipziger garb house please you?
Nobuo Uematsu: In Japan it is not unusual that orchestras give play music during a large meeting to the best. However I did not see ever a concert, with which so a broad mixture was ordered. In Japan the meetings are located to Fantasy under the slogan of a certain play as finally instead of pieces from many different titles from different cultures to be usually combined.
Gorilla: As we saw, you can run hardly a step, without around autographs or photos to be asked...
Uematsu: I would have never thought that I had here so many fans. I was already several times in other countries e.g. America, and assumed that therefore to be recognized but the positive reaction was in Leipzig nevertheless a surprise here!
G such as gorilla: If one meets you so personally, work usually very balanced and merrily. Yesterday we heard fishing rod and Dancing WAD comparatively dark music however with the pieces One winged from you to to get. Tell us somewhat about the dark side of the Nobuo Uematsu.
Uematsu: (laughs) my dark side? , there I am not safe of TC me. I think, I do not have dreadfully dark character characteristics. I do not make myself many concerns. I become fast because of somewhat uncertain, but does not help itself then large concerns to make me. Therefore I try to forget such things simply.
G such as gorilla: How do you proceed thus, if you compose a dark music piece?
Uematsu: The cheerful pieces exist already the section of the darker pieces write I thus than counterweight or negative to these.
G such as gorilla: How were the reactions from the industry, when it became public that you created your own company with Smile Please?
Uematsu: I got some offers. Of Nintendo for the new Smash Bros. for example, or of Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchis of new company Mistwalker .
G such as gorilla: Then you have to do thus altogether more than before?
Uematsu: One can say that in such a way.
G such as gorilla: And how did your everyday life change?
Uematsu: Actually does not have itself there at all so much changed... I rise in the morning against half eight, go with the dog walking, and over I begin about ten o'clock with the work. Then I go home, drink perhaps still another beer. Actually exactly the same as before!
G such as gorilla: How does your way to the job look?
Uematsu: I rented a room in the proximity of my house. There I work. With the car I drive like that around the ten minutes to I am there.
G such as gorilla: They have the title TRACK for the new Smash Bros. composed. How did it come to this project, and why you have decided for it?
Uematsu: Approximately at this time in the last year I was with some people from the play industry something drink. The producer of Smash Bros., Mr. Sakurai, and the composer of the Smash Bros.Row, Hirokazu Ando, participated at that time likewise. We chatted to third little, and Mr. Ando asked me sometime: You have not perhaps desire, something for the new Smash Bros. to write?. There I answered: Goes clearly.
G such as gorilla: So simply that could be done?
Uematsu: So simply that could be done!
G such as gorilla: They are thus well friendly with it?
Uematsu: That is correct. Next month it for example a concert will give, at which we worked together on a piece.
G such as gorilla: Can you describe us your general proceeding, if you select a new project?
Uematsu: An example: Recently I got an offer of Square Enix... When the play was presented to me, turned out that it concerned a title, in which it actually only around fighting went. At such plays I do not have large interest, therefore I rejected it.
G such as gorilla: Plays like yesterday of WRIGHT begun to cut Death Sword ( notewants: A fictitious Hack&Slay, that wants to prevail WRIGHTS in a lecture representatively of those today unimaginative software masses in the field led) to have thus no large chance with you?
Uematsu: No, I would like to make such things necessarily. For me it is important that the play contains dramatic courses and stories. It must have the Potenzial to move the player.
G such as gorilla: How do you prepare for the work on a play? Do you study very exactly history and the figures and do begin then?
Uematsu: Yes, usually I get all necessary before I with the work begin information to history, to the figures and to the map of the world.
G such as gorilla: How does it stand around its volume, the ' Black Mages?
Uematsu: We plan the straight third album.
G such as gorilla: Do you intend also to organize live-auftritte?
Uematsu: Not yet. But in the last year there was a concert named Voices in Yokohama. There we played something from the Black Mages as addition.
G such as gorilla: What for a kind music will be to find on that new Black liking it album?
Uematsu: This time it becomes a double album. The first CD offers like used arranged versions of finally Fantasypiece. But with the second CD try we to present old Japanese myths in music.
G such as gorilla: Do pieces belong you for Square or Square Enix wrote actually you? Do you have to ask Square Enix for permission, if you liked to write for example a Remix of Dancing WAD?
Uematsu: The rights are with Square. But if I liked to make something with the compositions, I may do usually also easily.
G such as gorilla: With whom the rights for work, which provides you under Smile Please , are? With you?
Uematsu: Naturally!
G such as gorilla: In finally Fantasy VI you had individual topics for each individual figure as well as the individual scenes. Thus the figures worked like the figures from an opera, which are fit in by their respective topic into history. In later parts of the series you have this method to characterize figures no more in this extent used. Why?
Uematsu: I think, that was a method, which was suitable for the sixth part completely particularly. In addition it was a desire of Mr. Sakaguchi. He meant, he would have gladly his own topic for each figure, therefore I had made also in such a way. I keep not very much of this method personal. Think times more drueber: Even if there are ten main figures, these ten figures with security will not play all together a equivalent important role. Maximally three or four. The remaining ones are then rather a nice addition. That makes it very difficult to compose each individual character an equivalent topic.
G such as gorilla: The today's Square Enix is as one of the largest video game companies with security another work giver than it the Squaresoft of the 80's was. You did the size of the company on creative level become ever the obstacle? Did expectations of the fans and your superiors exert pressure in negative way on you?
Uematsu: If a company from 10 persons employed increases to 1000, changes naturally very much. There one must make money primarily. When Squaresoft consisted still of 10 or 20 people, one wanted to offer somewhat interesting and unterhaltsames. All people followed their dreams and ideas or that made, what correct they considered. A company of 1000 people does not let itself be operated any longer alone with dreams. The pressure is quite present.
G such as gorilla: The sound TRACK of finally Fantasy XII was composed to large parts of Hitoshi Sakamoto, for part of XIII is appropriate already up to the title TRACK in the hands of Masashi Hamauzu. How does it feel for you to finally leave after so long work on the series their child Fantasy finally different composers?
Uematsu: I do not have actually the feeling that Fantasy is final in any way my series. I think, one can say that the original finally Fantasy went also to part of VI to end. Starting from part of VII each quantity young people was also taken up to the developer team, and it was not possible any longer to say, who now the author of the play was actual. Before there was a firm team with uniform task distribution. Everything which to part of VI did not come regard I as my work.
G such as gorilla: That is one point, in that finally Fantasy of Dragon Quest differentiates between itself the Dragon Quest team is very steady since the first part.
Uematsu: Completely correctly. With finally Fantasy against it the team changes continuously. I think that there is no such consistency with finally Fantasy.
G such as gorilla: Are your new projects such as Blue Dragon thus again a more personal experience?
Uematsu: With my new projects with Smile Please I have the possibility of concentrating me again fully and completely on the work on a play. During the work on the last finally Fantasy plays I at the same time worked on different projects. That was very zeitaufwaendig, and I could not accomplish a project any longer alone. At Blue Dragon against it I was completely alone active. That was already very helpful and very much fun made.
G such as gorilla: Then we can expect thus a great sound TRACK!
Uematsu: (becomes very enthusiastisch) in any case ones! Completely without joke I have the feeling that I brought for a long time again somewhat correctly good.
G such as gorilla: Jetzt we are however curious...
Uematsu: Unfortunate, actually I could have bring along a few Samples... The music is taken up already and the play goes toward end of the yearly to the trade. It will probably give the sound TRACK against November. They can really expect some from the title. There are also several songs in the play, and the texts were written all together by Mr. Sakaguchi. Very beautiful material! I had really many liberties with this title, with the Orchestrierung, with choirs and all these things.
G such as gorilla: Many dear thanks for the interview, us made happy, again with you too plaudern.
Uematsu: Completely meinerseits!
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Nobuo Uematsu
It is a joy again and again to meet Nobuo Uematsu. Hardly someone is as relaxed, friendly and sympathetic as the composer first 11 final Fantasyepisodes. Owing to concert supervisor Thomas Boecker we could welcome Uematsu also this year again to a detailed discussion. And that may pursue you now here.
Gorilla: How did the concert of yesterday in the Leipziger garb house please you?
Nobuo Uematsu: In Japan it is not unusual that orchestras give play music during a large meeting to the best. However I did not see ever a concert, with which so a broad mixture was ordered. In Japan the meetings are located to Fantasy under the slogan of a certain play as finally instead of pieces from many different titles from different cultures to be usually combined.
Gorilla: As we saw, you can run hardly a step, without around autographs or photos to be asked...
Uematsu: I would have never thought that I had here so many fans. I was already several times in other countries e.g. America, and assumed that therefore to be recognized but the positive reaction was in Leipzig nevertheless a surprise here!
G such as gorilla: If one meets you so personally, work usually very balanced and merrily. Yesterday we heard fishing rod and Dancing WAD comparatively dark music however with the pieces One winged from you to to get. Tell us somewhat about the dark side of the Nobuo Uematsu.
Uematsu: (laughs) my dark side? , there I am not safe of TC me. I think, I do not have dreadfully dark character characteristics. I do not make myself many concerns. I become fast because of somewhat uncertain, but does not help itself then large concerns to make me. Therefore I try to forget such things simply.
G such as gorilla: How do you proceed thus, if you compose a dark music piece?
Uematsu: The cheerful pieces exist already the section of the darker pieces write I thus than counterweight or negative to these.
G such as gorilla: How were the reactions from the industry, when it became public that you created your own company with Smile Please?
Uematsu: I got some offers. Of Nintendo for the new Smash Bros. for example, or of Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchis of new company Mistwalker .
G such as gorilla: Then you have to do thus altogether more than before?
Uematsu: One can say that in such a way.
G such as gorilla: And how did your everyday life change?
Uematsu: Actually does not have itself there at all so much changed... I rise in the morning against half eight, go with the dog walking, and over I begin about ten o'clock with the work. Then I go home, drink perhaps still another beer. Actually exactly the same as before!
G such as gorilla: How does your way to the job look?
Uematsu: I rented a room in the proximity of my house. There I work. With the car I drive like that around the ten minutes to I am there.
G such as gorilla: They have the title TRACK for the new Smash Bros. composed. How did it come to this project, and why you have decided for it?
Uematsu: Approximately at this time in the last year I was with some people from the play industry something drink. The producer of Smash Bros., Mr. Sakurai, and the composer of the Smash Bros.Row, Hirokazu Ando, participated at that time likewise. We chatted to third little, and Mr. Ando asked me sometime: You have not perhaps desire, something for the new Smash Bros. to write?. There I answered: Goes clearly.
G such as gorilla: So simply that could be done?
Uematsu: So simply that could be done!
G such as gorilla: They are thus well friendly with it?
Uematsu: That is correct. Next month it for example a concert will give, at which we worked together on a piece.
G such as gorilla: Can you describe us your general proceeding, if you select a new project?
Uematsu: An example: Recently I got an offer of Square Enix... When the play was presented to me, turned out that it concerned a title, in which it actually only around fighting went. At such plays I do not have large interest, therefore I rejected it.
G such as gorilla: Plays like yesterday of WRIGHT begun to cut Death Sword ( notewants: A fictitious Hack&Slay, that wants to prevail WRIGHTS in a lecture representatively of those today unimaginative software masses in the field led) to have thus no large chance with you?
Uematsu: No, I would like to make such things necessarily. For me it is important that the play contains dramatic courses and stories. It must have the Potenzial to move the player.
G such as gorilla: How do you prepare for the work on a play? Do you study very exactly history and the figures and do begin then?
Uematsu: Yes, usually I get all necessary before I with the work begin information to history, to the figures and to the map of the world.
G such as gorilla: How does it stand around its volume, the ' Black Mages?
Uematsu: We plan the straight third album.
G such as gorilla: Do you intend also to organize live-auftritte?
Uematsu: Not yet. But in the last year there was a concert named Voices in Yokohama. There we played something from the Black Mages as addition.
G such as gorilla: What for a kind music will be to find on that new Black liking it album?
Uematsu: This time it becomes a double album. The first CD offers like used arranged versions of finally Fantasypiece. But with the second CD try we to present old Japanese myths in music.
G such as gorilla: Do pieces belong you for Square or Square Enix wrote actually you? Do you have to ask Square Enix for permission, if you liked to write for example a Remix of Dancing WAD?
Uematsu: The rights are with Square. But if I liked to make something with the compositions, I may do usually also easily.
G such as gorilla: With whom the rights for work, which provides you under Smile Please , are? With you?
Uematsu: Naturally!
G such as gorilla: In finally Fantasy VI you had individual topics for each individual figure as well as the individual scenes. Thus the figures worked like the figures from an opera, which are fit in by their respective topic into history. In later parts of the series you have this method to characterize figures no more in this extent used. Why?
Uematsu: I think, that was a method, which was suitable for the sixth part completely particularly. In addition it was a desire of Mr. Sakaguchi. He meant, he would have gladly his own topic for each figure, therefore I had made also in such a way. I keep not very much of this method personal. Think times more drueber: Even if there are ten main figures, these ten figures with security will not play all together a equivalent important role. Maximally three or four. The remaining ones are then rather a nice addition. That makes it very difficult to compose each individual character an equivalent topic.
G such as gorilla: The today's Square Enix is as one of the largest video game companies with security another work giver than it the Squaresoft of the 80's was. You did the size of the company on creative level become ever the obstacle? Did expectations of the fans and your superiors exert pressure in negative way on you?
Uematsu: If a company from 10 persons employed increases to 1000, changes naturally very much. There one must make money primarily. When Squaresoft consisted still of 10 or 20 people, one wanted to offer somewhat interesting and unterhaltsames. All people followed their dreams and ideas or that made, what correct they considered. A company of 1000 people does not let itself be operated any longer alone with dreams. The pressure is quite present.
G such as gorilla: The sound TRACK of finally Fantasy XII was composed to large parts of Hitoshi Sakamoto, for part of XIII is appropriate already up to the title TRACK in the hands of Masashi Hamauzu. How does it feel for you to finally leave after so long work on the series their child Fantasy finally different composers?
Uematsu: I do not have actually the feeling that Fantasy is final in any way my series. I think, one can say that the original finally Fantasy went also to part of VI to end. Starting from part of VII each quantity young people was also taken up to the developer team, and it was not possible any longer to say, who now the author of the play was actual. Before there was a firm team with uniform task distribution. Everything which to part of VI did not come regard I as my work.
G such as gorilla: That is one point, in that finally Fantasy of Dragon Quest differentiates between itself the Dragon Quest team is very steady since the first part.
Uematsu: Completely correctly. With finally Fantasy against it the team changes continuously. I think that there is no such consistency with finally Fantasy.
G such as gorilla: Are your new projects such as Blue Dragon thus again a more personal experience?
Uematsu: With my new projects with Smile Please I have the possibility of concentrating me again fully and completely on the work on a play. During the work on the last finally Fantasy plays I at the same time worked on different projects. That was very zeitaufwaendig, and I could not accomplish a project any longer alone. At Blue Dragon against it I was completely alone active. That was already very helpful and very much fun made.
G such as gorilla: Then we can expect thus a great sound TRACK!
Uematsu: (becomes very enthusiastisch) in any case ones! Completely without joke I have the feeling that I brought for a long time again somewhat correctly good.
G such as gorilla: Jetzt we are however curious...
Uematsu: Unfortunate, actually I could have bring along a few Samples... The music is taken up already and the play goes toward end of the yearly to the trade. It will probably give the sound TRACK against November. They can really expect some from the title. There are also several songs in the play, and the texts were written all together by Mr. Sakaguchi. Very beautiful material! I had really many liberties with this title, with the Orchestrierung, with choirs and all these things.
G such as gorilla: Many dear thanks for the interview, us made happy, again with you too plaudern.
Uematsu: Completely meinerseits!
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