Won The Lawsuit! ~ The First Success (Phoenix Wright : Ace Attorney)
Sugimori Masakazu
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Browse piano sheets by Sugimori Masakazu on Zen Virtual Piano. A teacher at music school encouraged him to think more practically; until then he had always pictured a future as a pop composer or songwriter, having started writing his own music at 16. At Capcom, starting in 1999, his first roles were audio testing, and his earliest credit is for Breath of Fire IV. A teen who wrote his own music and a first job in audio testing show a route that began quite far from composing. Mori encouraged him, according to Sugimori, to compose what he liked and to use PCM if he wished; he has likened that to being handed water in a desert. Sugimori said that genres date quickly: anything that fits neatly into one soon becomes dated, so he has always tried to write music that no single genre can hold. Being given water in a desert, as he puts it, suggests a composer who took the freedom as an invitation to try a great deal. Of the main theme he says he wanted it to leave the strongest impression, so even though it is short he tried to make it impactful, and that Phoenix's theme has a second half. He also says the first song he created was the normal investigation theme, and that the circumstances of development were really difficult at that time. RPGFan's review says the music set the mood for the game, that the sampling work by Sugimori is superb, and that the music from the first game was composed primarily by him and remains entirely 16-bit. A short theme made to be bold, and a reviewer's praise for the sampling, both point at how much he fit into very little sound. He decided to go freelance and started the sound agency Designwave in 2007 with his former Capcom colleague Atsushi Mori. Sugimori recalled that once Ghost Trick was in development, someone mentioned at an event that he was the composer, and everyone on the internet said that Sugimori was back, which is when he learned that Gyakuten Saiban 1 had become popular. Learning from the internet that a game he had finished years before had become popular makes a late kind of feedback for a composer.
Browse piano sheets by Sugimori Masakazu on Zen Virtual Piano.
A teacher at music school encouraged him to think more practically; until then he had always pictured a future as a pop composer or songwriter, having started writing his own music at 16. At Capcom, starting in 1999, his first roles were audio testing, and his earliest credit is for Breath of Fire IV. A teen who wrote his own music and a first job in audio testing show a route that began quite far from composing.
Mori encouraged him, according to Sugimori, to compose what he liked and to use PCM if he wished; he has likened that to being handed water in a desert. Sugimori said that genres date quickly: anything that fits neatly into one soon becomes dated, so he has always tried to write music that no single genre can hold. Being given water in a desert, as he puts it, suggests a composer who took the freedom as an invitation to try a great deal.
Of the main theme he says he wanted it to leave the strongest impression, so even though it is short he tried to make it impactful, and that Phoenix's theme has a second half. He also says the first song he created was the normal investigation theme, and that the circumstances of development were really difficult at that time. RPGFan's review says the music set the mood for the game, that the sampling work by Sugimori is superb, and that the music from the first game was composed primarily by him and remains entirely 16-bit. A short theme made to be bold, and a reviewer's praise for the sampling, both point at how much he fit into very little sound.
He decided to go freelance and started the sound agency Designwave in 2007 with his former Capcom colleague Atsushi Mori. Sugimori recalled that once Ghost Trick was in development, someone mentioned at an event that he was the composer, and everyone on the internet said that Sugimori was back, which is when he learned that Gyakuten Saiban 1 had become popular. Learning from the internet that a game he had finished years before had become popular makes a late kind of feedback for a composer.
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Masakazu Sugimori joined Capcom in 1999 and composed most of the music for the first Gyakuten Saiban, known as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
He says the only companies still accepting applications were Atlus and Capcom; Atlus rejected his application, and he started at Capcom in 1999 in audio testing.
He went freelance and started the sound agency Designwave in 2007 with Atsushi Mori.
Genres age quickly in his view, so he strives for music that no single genre can fully contain.