Symphonic game music concerts

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The artists after the performance of the Symphonic Fantasies concert

The Symphonic Game Music Concerts (also English Symphonic Game Music Concerts ) are a series of annual German concerts with computer game music that began in 2003. It is best known for being the longest-running and first of its kind outside of Japan. The concerts are produced by Thomas Böcker and performed by various orchestras under the direction of conductors Andy Brick (2003 to 2007), Arnie Roth (2008, 2009 and 2011) and Niklas Willén (2010).

In the Gewandhaus was GC in Concert from 2003 to 2007 as the official opening ceremony of the Leipzig computer games fair GC - Games Convention held. In 2008, the cancellation of the concert by the Leipziger Messe led to a cooperation with the WDR , which finally brought about new performances with computer game music by its own orchestra. These concerts mainly take place in the Cologne Philharmonic .

Emergence

Thomas Böcker has been working in the games industry as a producer, director and consultant for a variety of soundtracks since 1999. His role as production and project manager of the Merregnon trilogy brought him many contacts with conductors, orchestras and composers from all over the world.

Inspired by game concerts from the Far East, especially the Orchestral Game Music Concerts from the nineties , he developed a concept for the first event of its kind outside of Japan. In order to attract as many people from the target group as possible, the concert had to be scheduled alongside an established game industry event. In 2002 he presented his idea to the Leipziger Messe, which agreed to hold the symphonic game music concert during the GC - Games Convention, the first computer games fair in Europe.

The Leipziger Messe financed GC in Concert , while Böcker himself was responsible for the planning. This involved the invitation of composers and the setting up of a concert program. Furthermore, the consent of individual publishers had to be obtained in order to be allowed to perform music from the games they published. Böcker did not want to limit the selection of compositions to European games and instead relied on the best Asian, American and European titles of the last few years, which ensured a variety of musical styles.

The focus of the First Symphonic Game Music Concert was on honoring publishers who had previously worked with live orchestras. The majority of the compositions had been recorded earlier with this type of orchestra, which reduced the development phase of the concert to just four months, starting in mid-April 2003.

Based on the feedback from visitors to the first event, more music from classic games found its way into the programs. The following concerts occupied Böcker for almost a year each with the planning and contained more and more newly written and experimental arrangements that were not just orchestral versions of the starting pieces, but personal interpretations of the arrangers. The pioneering work done by Böcker and his team resulted in a lot of publisher support for game concerts outside of Japan and paved the way for many similar events. The Symphonic Game Music Concerts have since become known for their numerous world premieres, some of which also for Press Start -Symphony of Games- and PLAY! A Video Game Symphony have been reused. Böcker was involved with the latter series from 2005 to 2007.

The German concert series prefers a more classic atmosphere that fully relies on the quality of the music and its performance and does not rely on elaborate lighting effects or the showing of game scenes on large screens. The original inspiration GC in Concert drew from the Orchestral Game Music Concerts was reflected in the performance and re-arrangement of two of their compositions. The orchestral figures designed by Chisa Suzuki for the series are also reminiscent of the CD covers of the Orchestral Game Music Concerts .

Many famous game music composers attended the events and the associated autograph sessions. Shiro Hamaguchi, Michiru Yamane, Yuzo Koshiro and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi were even actively involved as guest arrangers and musicians.

GC in Concert

From 2003 onwards, five annual and much-praised concerts took place in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, all of which were performed in front of a sold-out house with around 2000 visitors. In their role as the official opening ceremony of the GC - Games Convention, the events from 2003 to 2006 also included various speeches and presentations by German politicians and industry representatives, for example by game designer Will Wright .

The First Symphonic Game Music Concert in 2003 was the first orchestral computer game music concert outside of Japan. It was the only Gewandhaus concert in the series at which the Czech National Symphony Orchestra played, while the later events were for the FILMharmonic Orchestra from Prague . Over the years, more musicians like Seiji Honda and Rony Barrak have been brought in to support the orchestra. The fourth symphonic game music concert used a choir and the Gewandhaus organ for the first time.

Removal of GC in Concert

At the beginning of 2008, a notice on the series' official website announced that no more symphonic game music concerts would take place in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Instead, the opening ceremony of the GC - Games Convention 2008 was replaced by a video games live show in the Arena Leipzig .

Tommy Tallarico, production manager and presenter of the American game music concert series, spoke of having had an email correspondence with Böcker. It was planned to have one concert at the beginning and one at the end of the GC - Games Convention 2007, but Tallarico and Böcker found that it would have been too confusing for the visitors. The official justification of the Leipziger Messe for the cancellation of the traditional concerts was that they wanted to demonstrate the cultural value of computer games to politics and business with the help of the symphonic game music concerts . Since the concerts from 2007 had nothing to do with an official opening ceremony of the fair, this requirement was no longer met. According to a statement from Thomas Böcker, Leipziger Messe had not informed him in advance about the new collaboration with Video Games Live and his team only found out about it through a press release.

After 2007

On a tip from the conductor Scott Lawton , Winfried Fechner, the manager of the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, contacted Thomas Böcker - in the hope of being able to introduce a new genre of music to the ensemble. As a result, he was invited to attend the Fifth Symphonic Game Music Concert . Impressed by the reactions of the audience there, he saw an opportunity to inspire young people for orchestral music and entered into a collaboration with Merregnon Studios, which soon led to the CD release drammatica - The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura - and a first in-house concert with computer game music called PROMS That's Sound, that's Rhythm .

Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert

At the end of 2007, Thomas Böcker announced his role as producer of Symphonic Shades , a concert that was due to take place on August 23, 2008 and which is entirely dedicated to the music of the German game composer Chris Hülsbeck . The tickets were sold out after just six days, which prompted the makers to announce a second concert, which was to take place at 11 p.m. on the same day of the premiere of Symphonic Shades in front of another sold-out audience. The first performance at 8 p.m. was the first computer game music concert to be broadcast live on the radio.

The WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne and the FILMharmonic Choir perform Symphonic Shades on

A critically acclaimed album featuring the full Symphonic Shades program was released on December 17, 2008. It contains live material from the concert, which was supplemented with recordings before and after the public events. The first edition of the CD was a collector's edition limited to 1000 pieces, which was sold out at the main dealer less than a month after publication. In order to guarantee the permanent availability of the recording, digital versions on iTunes and Amazon followed, as well as a second edition of the CD on May 20, 2009. In contrast to the limited collector's edition, the price of the reprinting is lower and it is available in standard CD Cases shipped. The booklet that was enclosed with the first 1000 copies is still there, but with a normally printed cover without matt varnish.

On August 4, 2009, eight pieces by Symphonic Shades were performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. They were part of the Sinfonia Drammatica concert in the Stockholm Concert Hall , at which Yoko Shimomura also played drammatica titles . On this occasion, Jonne Valtonen took the time to slightly revise his version of the Turrican II main theme. In the third family concert of the Duisburg Philharmonic also nine of its arrangements from found Symphonic Shades entrance.

Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix

Concerts 2009

Uematsu, Mitsuda, Shimomura and Kikuta at the autograph session before Symphonic Fantasies

In February 2008, Thomas Böcker mentioned plans to continue the series of symphonic game music concerts in Cologne. The plans were later confirmed by Winfried Fechner, who announced a game music concert called Symphonic Fantasies , which took place on September 12, 2009 in the Cologne Philharmonic . The tickets for the event sold out quickly, which made a second concert on September 11, 2009 in the Oberhausen König-Pilsener-Arena necessary. In addition to the Philharmonic performances, the concert was broadcast on WDR4 and viewers all over the world were able to follow the event live for the first time via video streaming on the Internet.

On September 15, 2010, the concert recording of Symphonic Fantasies in Japan was released by Square Enix, and two days later by Universal Music (DECCA). The mixing of the recordings took place in the studios of the WDR, the album was mastered in London in the Abbey Road studios. The CD album reached number 13 in the German classical music charts in September .

Symphonic Fantasies is the Japanese game maker Square Enix dedicated and includes arrangements of compositions from Final Fantasy , Secret of Mana , Chrono Trigger , Chrono Cross and Kingdom Hearts , all of which in the form of up-minute 18-to suites are presented, similar to the rates in large Symphonies. This new concept arose from Thomas Böcker's wish to incorporate more musical development and creative ideas into arrangements of game music. In order to select the pieces to be performed, the original composers were consulted, who made lists of their favorite works. This process also included studying the source material and all of the existing arrangements. The balancing of the concert program and the revision of the compositions involved a lot of effort in order to make the performance equally entertaining for first-time listeners and experienced concert-goers.

The concerts opened with Jonne Valtonen's own composition, the "Fanfare overture", to get the listeners in the mood for the new arrangements. An early recording of the fanfare played by the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln under the direction of Niklas Willén appeared as a video on the official Symphonic Fantasies website . Rehearsing took place for about two weeks before the public performances, more than any previous game music concert.

Concerts 2012

On January 7th and 8th 2012 the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus Symphonic Fantasies performed under the baton of Eckehard Stier .

Stier has already conducted the recordings of the CD album drammatica -The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura- and the opening fanfare for Symphonic Legends for a promotional video. Both performances of Symphonic Fantasies Tokyo sold out in a matter of hours, making the event the biggest hit for producers to date. More than 4,600 fans were there.

Symphonic Legends - Music from Nintendo

The great response and positive feedback from the visitors of Symphonic Fantasies led WDR and Thomas Böcker to announce another symphonic game music concert called Symphonic Legends , which took place on September 23, 2010 in the Cologne Philharmonic. For the first time the entire concert was conducted by Niklas Willén , while most of the arrangements were again written by Jonne Valtonen. The theme of the event was Nintendo music , with titles such as Super Mario Bros. , Donkey Kong , Metroid , F-Zero and The Legend of Zelda , among others . As with Symphonic Fantasies, Jonne Valtonen composed the piece Fanfare for the Common 8-Bit Hero , of which a video of the rehearsal was already published in April 2010 as a preparation for the concert.

Symphonic Legends offered some innovations in the field of game music, including the Metroid arranged in the style of contemporary music and a 35-minute tone poem that musically told The Legend of Zelda . The Legend of Zelda made up the entire second half of Symphonic Legends , divided into five sections: Hyrulian Child , Dark Lord , Princess of Destiny , Battlefield and Hero of Time .

Symphonic Odysseys - Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu

Almost at the same time as the unveiling of the themes of Symphonic Legends , Winfried Fechner opened in an interview with squareenixmusic.com that one might even expect two game music concerts per year in the future, and announced Symphonic Odysseys - Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu . This concert is entirely dedicated to Nobuo Uematsu's work, with Jonne Valtonen again responsible for the arrangements. Further arrangements were written by Roger Wanamo, Mikko Laine and Jani Laaksonen. Among other things, titles from the games Final Fantasy , Chrono Trigger , Blue Dragon , as well as the namesake for the concert Lost Odyssey were played. Symphonic Odysseys took place on July 9, 2011. Ticket sales started on December 1, 2010 and so successful that all tickets were sold out within 12 hours and a second earlier performance was organized some time later.

Symphonic Selections

On November 22, 2013, Symphonic Selections, the fifth video game music concert with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Cologne , conducted by Wayne Marshall, was performed in the Cologne Philharmonic . Music from the video games Final Fantasy , Super Mario Galaxy , The Legend of Zelda , Monster Hunter , Shadow of the Colossus and Castlevania was played.

Chamber music and school concerts

The chamber music game concerts performed by a string ensemble and the school concerts Heroes of Our Fantasy and Super Mario Galaxy - A Musical Adventure are three subordinate series of events that are also produced by Thomas Böcker.

The free first chamber music game concert in 2005 took place in conjunction with the GC-Cup gaming tournament at Augustusplatz in Leipzig, while the other two took place in conjunction with a GC - Games Convention press conference and the historical exhibition Nintendo - Vom Kartenspiel zum Game Boy of the Landesmuseum Koblenz were held.

The four school concerts Heroes of Our Fantasy from 2006 were intended to show the differences and similarities between classical music and game music and to make orchestral concerts more accessible to a younger audience. They were supported by Nintendo , Square Enix, and Sega . January 2010 five more school concerts by the Neue Elbland Philharmonie took place. The series was called Super Mario Galaxy - A Musical Adventure and was the spiritual successor to heroes of our imagination . The concerts were officially licensed and sponsored by Nintendo. They were based on the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf and were intended to represent a modern version of it. The orchestral parts were supplemented with short narrations of the history of Super Mario Galaxy .

Awards

  • 2012 Best Live Concert: Symphonic Odysseys - Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu , Annual Original Sound Version Awards 2011
  • 2011 Outstanding Production - Concert: Symphonic Odysseys - Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu , Annual Game Music Awards 2011
  • 2011 Best RPG-Related Arranged Soundtrack: Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix , RPGFan Awards 2010
  • 2011 Best Live Concert: Symphonic Legends - music from Nintendo , Annual Original Sound Version Awards 2010
  • 2010 Best Arranged Album - Solo / Ensemble: Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix , Annual Game Music Awards 2010
  • 2010 Best concert: Symphonic Legends - music from Nintendo , LEVEL magazine Sweden

Web links

Individual evidence

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