VGMO: Japanese composer interviews and podcast

[Chris]

VGMO is hoping to publish 24 new interviews with Japanese composers over the next year with the help of Patreon. We're giving backers the chance to select or lead their own interviews. Thought this could give some of you a great chance to lead your own interview. We're also hoping to fund a podcast featuring audio interviews, samples, and reviews. Check it out here. Any help large or small is greatly appreciated!

[Namorbia]

I really hope that podcast will happen. VGMdb's own one was so good and professional and none has filled its shoes yet.

Already donating and got my friend to become a patreon as well!

[Chris]

Thanks so much! We're planning to do a podcast either way, although the stretch goal would allow us to make it much more definitive!

[blackoak]

A couple thoughts to share:

I just finished a 2-week research stint at the tokyo national diet library digging up old interviews from game magazines, mooks, and other rare publications. Now, while I found a lot of old composer interviews, it was far less than you'd expect given the popularity of game music today.

If your name is "Sugiyama Kouichi" or "Nobuo Uematsu", then there's tons of stuff, but for more obscure (and not even that obscure!) composers, the work of sites like VGMO is really vital. We're at a kind of crossroads in preserving the thoughts/anecdotes/remarks of these people: in the next 10 years, older composers are either going to start dying, or having irreparable holes in their memory--a phenomenon I've witnessed firsthand. So it's a very important time for game and game music history.

Anyway, all that is to say I've supported VGMO too and wish their patreon campaign the best!