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Old Mar 16, 2011, 02:23 AM
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ehh, blah, the sound is icing! and i'm sure he is happy with that role haha. less work more pay!

kondo has always written great music. he gravitates to the sorts of harmonies/voicings that i like. to me it isn't important whether his ideas are realised by a symphony orchestra or by midi patches. i would like to hear him write some fully orchestral music though, maybe just for curiousity's sake ~ skyward sword would be a good opportunity, provided it suits the slightly more colourful/fantasy art style ~ but i know i'd like it because it's kondo, not because it's orchestral. if anything, i've found his songs for Super Mario Galaxy 1+2, Twilight Princess and Wind Waker less compelling than his earlier music, despite there being less hinderance with sound.
anyway, i suspect skyward sword will have full production/streamed audio, at least for the mainstay of the soundtrack, though i'd anticipate the approach being more like SMG; orchestral fused with other stuff, and being on the lighter/fluffier side stylistically. i suppose it also depends who writes for it.

unfortunately there's this sense that orchestration is intrinsically superior in any scenario. i wonder sometimes if i am the only person who disagrees on that point. sometimes i think it can be at the expense of charm and ingenuity, since everyone is doing it.

as for nintendo's current staff... regarding orchestration you may be right. it doesn't seem like any of them specialise in orchestrated music, although it could be that the games simply haven't called for orchestral music yet, and it doesn't seem like nintendo deploys their staff in that sort of idiomatic way (they all appear to tackle all styles and genres.) Wakai's done some good things i suppose. pretty much anything daisuke shiiba touches turns to gold as well; i'm pretty certain if he were to do orchestral work it'd be brilliant... again, because it's compelling composition from the ground up, not superficially extravagant as a priority.

kondo's mentioned he wants to do full soundtracks again in future sooo i guess we'll see, i anticipate when the time comes there would at least be some orchestrated music.
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