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Asuka Ota & Ryo Nagamatsu
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Browse piano sheets by Asuka Ota & Ryo Nagamatsu on Zen Virtual Piano. Asuka Ota and Ryo Nagamatsu, two separate composers, worked together on Mario Kart Wii in 2008. Nagamatsu had worked on several casual titles before getting the chance to score a full game, and he and Ota matched the gameplay with frantic compositions while giving each course its own style. Ota, for her part, led the score and nudged the series in a subtle new direction, mixing light jazz-influenced course themes with varied arrangements of classic themes. A 2008 Mario Kart Wii credit shared between two separate composers, and a score said to take the series in a subtle new direction, may suggest an entry in the series shaped by more than one hand. Ota learned to play the piano from a young age, and she liked the Super Mario games too. At university she trained in classical music, but she also played in bands with friends and listened to many kinds of music, techno among them. Soon after graduating she impressed Koji Kondo enough to be taken on by Nintendo EAD's sound team, and she debuted on the GameCube co-op title The Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures. Her work on Yoshi Touch & Go led Kazumi Totaka to choose her as his assistant on Animal Crossing: Wild World, a job that called for many original pieces. A musician who played in bands and listened to techno suggests a background wider than the classical training she also had, one that her mix of jazz-influenced themes and arrangements may reflect. Born on October 25, 1982, Nagamatsu began piano at six, learned to compose on his own in high school, and played and wrote music for his school's orchestra and brass band. In 2006 he won the Composition Award at the Record-Con contest organised by Shimamura Music for The Day the World Warms Up, and in the same year he joined the sound team of Nintendo Entertainment Development and Analysis, where he learned the ropes by scoring Wii Play with Shinobu Tanaka. Piano from the age of six and his involvement in his school's orchestra and brass band may point to a composer whose training ran through performing as well as writing. Film is another field for Nagamatsu: his short Yamabikoyama took the Next Sphere Award at the 2017 Toyama International Film Festival, with him as lead actor, screenwriter, director, composer, sound effects designer and editor. He left Nintendo on April 30, 2023, and founded RH Music Co., Ltd., becoming its representative director. For 2010's Super Mario Galaxy 2, Koji Kondo asked Nagamatsu to write a few tracks, and several became highlights, including the colourful boss theme Magma Monsters and the stage theme Square Timber, which draws on bluegrass. Roles from lead actor to editor on a short film, set beside a bluegrass-influenced stage theme and a colourful boss theme in a Mario game, may point to a musician at ease with a wide range of work.
Browse piano sheets by Asuka Ota & Ryo Nagamatsu on Zen Virtual Piano.
Asuka Ota and Ryo Nagamatsu, two separate composers, worked together on Mario Kart Wii in 2008. Nagamatsu had worked on several casual titles before getting the chance to score a full game, and he and Ota matched the gameplay with frantic compositions while giving each course its own style. Ota, for her part, led the score and nudged the series in a subtle new direction, mixing light jazz-influenced course themes with varied arrangements of classic themes. A 2008 Mario Kart Wii credit shared between two separate composers, and a score said to take the series in a subtle new direction, may suggest an entry in the series shaped by more than one hand.
Ota learned to play the piano from a young age, and she liked the Super Mario games too. At university she trained in classical music, but she also played in bands with friends and listened to many kinds of music, techno among them. Soon after graduating she impressed Koji Kondo enough to be taken on by Nintendo EAD's sound team, and she debuted on the GameCube co-op title The Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures. Her work on Yoshi Touch & Go led Kazumi Totaka to choose her as his assistant on Animal Crossing: Wild World, a job that called for many original pieces. A musician who played in bands and listened to techno suggests a background wider than the classical training she also had, one that her mix of jazz-influenced themes and arrangements may reflect.
Born on October 25, 1982, Nagamatsu began piano at six, learned to compose on his own in high school, and played and wrote music for his school's orchestra and brass band. In 2006 he won the Composition Award at the Record-Con contest organised by Shimamura Music for The Day the World Warms Up, and in the same year he joined the sound team of Nintendo Entertainment Development and Analysis, where he learned the ropes by scoring Wii Play with Shinobu Tanaka. Piano from the age of six and his involvement in his school's orchestra and brass band may point to a composer whose training ran through performing as well as writing.
Film is another field for Nagamatsu: his short Yamabikoyama took the Next Sphere Award at the 2017 Toyama International Film Festival, with him as lead actor, screenwriter, director, composer, sound effects designer and editor. He left Nintendo on April 30, 2023, and founded RH Music Co., Ltd., becoming its representative director. For 2010's Super Mario Galaxy 2, Koji Kondo asked Nagamatsu to write a few tracks, and several became highlights, including the colourful boss theme Magma Monsters and the stage theme Square Timber, which draws on bluegrass. Roles from lead actor to editor on a short film, set beside a bluegrass-influenced stage theme and a colourful boss theme in a Mario game, may point to a musician at ease with a wide range of work.
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Asuka Ota & Ryo Nagamatsu
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They are two separate composers who worked in Nintendo's sound team and worked together on Mario Kart Wii, released in 2008.
He was born on October 25, 1982, and learned to play the piano from the age of six.
He left Nintendo on April 30, 2023, and established RH Music Co., Ltd., becoming its representative director.
His short film Yamabikoyama won the Next Sphere Award at the Toyama International Film Festival in 2017.