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Tomohito Nishiura
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在 Zen Virtual Piano 探索 Tomohito Nishiura 的鋼琴琴譜。 Tomohito Nishiura is a video game composer who joined Level 5 as its audio lead in 1998. He was born on February 13, 1973 in Setagaya, Tokyo, and learned to play and compose music from a young age. His tastes were varied, but he found himself particularly swayed by folk music, as an acoustic guitarist. His games career began at the developer Riverhill Software, where he was a sound designer from April 1997 and at first worked on sound effects for the horror game OverBlood 2 with three others. Acoustic guitar and folk music in his youth, beside the accordion-led themes of his Layton work, may hint at acoustic colours recurring in his music. Akihiro Hino, a game director, was backed by Sony Computer Entertainment when he founded his own company, Level 5. Nishiura accepted a position at the company as its audio lead, starting work in October 1998. He had never composed a video game before. To shape his tracks, he read the scenario closely and talked over ideas with the designers. Due to budget limitations, he was also expected to handle sound effects design, sound editing and sound programming on the project. A start as a sound designer in April 1997, beside the effects, editing and programming duties he handled at Level 5, may point to sound work that went beyond composing. On a number of tracks, including the main theme, he also put his own personality into the music through Celtic influences and a colourful acoustic palette. Nishiura started work on Dark Cloud 2, also called Dark Chronicle, in 2002. Level 5 had the finances to grow into a larger company by then, so he could concentrate only on the composing, while a new employee took over the sound design. The accordion-led main theme and the emotional ending ballad were among its highlights. He co-wrote the ballad with the folk-rock singer Barbara Kessler. A ballad co-written with a folk-rock singer, beside his early pull toward folk music, may suggest a folk thread in his writing. Since 2006, Nishiura has focused his attention on creating music for the Professor Layton series. To match the premise of these puzzle adventure games, he gave Professor Layton and the Curious Village a mysterious yet whimsical storybook sound, headlined by an accordion-led main theme. Music for the Curious Village, beside all the music for the prequel trilogy, may point to a long association with the Layton series. An accordion-led main theme in Dark Cloud 2 and another in Professor Layton and the Curious Village may suggest the instrument as a recurring voice in his work. He wrote all the music for the prequel trilogy, made up of Last Specter, Miracle Mask and Azran Legacies. Each title kept the series' familiar sound while matching specific scenarios, adding musical variety and raising production values.
在 Zen Virtual Piano 探索 Tomohito Nishiura 的鋼琴琴譜。
Tomohito Nishiura is a video game composer who joined Level 5 as its audio lead in 1998. He was born on February 13, 1973 in Setagaya, Tokyo, and learned to play and compose music from a young age. His tastes were varied, but he found himself particularly swayed by folk music, as an acoustic guitarist. His games career began at the developer Riverhill Software, where he was a sound designer from April 1997 and at first worked on sound effects for the horror game OverBlood 2 with three others. Acoustic guitar and folk music in his youth, beside the accordion-led themes of his Layton work, may hint at acoustic colours recurring in his music.
Akihiro Hino, a game director, was backed by Sony Computer Entertainment when he founded his own company, Level 5. Nishiura accepted a position at the company as its audio lead, starting work in October 1998. He had never composed a video game before. To shape his tracks, he read the scenario closely and talked over ideas with the designers. Due to budget limitations, he was also expected to handle sound effects design, sound editing and sound programming on the project. A start as a sound designer in April 1997, beside the effects, editing and programming duties he handled at Level 5, may point to sound work that went beyond composing. On a number of tracks, including the main theme, he also put his own personality into the music through Celtic influences and a colourful acoustic palette.
Nishiura started work on Dark Cloud 2, also called Dark Chronicle, in 2002. Level 5 had the finances to grow into a larger company by then, so he could concentrate only on the composing, while a new employee took over the sound design. The accordion-led main theme and the emotional ending ballad were among its highlights. He co-wrote the ballad with the folk-rock singer Barbara Kessler. A ballad co-written with a folk-rock singer, beside his early pull toward folk music, may suggest a folk thread in his writing.
Since 2006, Nishiura has focused his attention on creating music for the Professor Layton series. To match the premise of these puzzle adventure games, he gave Professor Layton and the Curious Village a mysterious yet whimsical storybook sound, headlined by an accordion-led main theme. Music for the Curious Village, beside all the music for the prequel trilogy, may point to a long association with the Layton series. An accordion-led main theme in Dark Cloud 2 and another in Professor Layton and the Curious Village may suggest the instrument as a recurring voice in his work. He wrote all the music for the prequel trilogy, made up of Last Specter, Miracle Mask and Azran Legacies. Each title kept the series' familiar sound while matching specific scenarios, adding musical variety and raising production values.
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