Speaking of the success of Onmyoji, one cannot avoid the beautiful original music in the game. Speaking of the music producer? Umebayashi Shigeru, you may be a little unfamiliar, but when it comes to his works, you must be familiar with them.
Boom, boom, boom!
?Hurry up and open the door, or make trouble without the music! ?
?It’s a ghost. Since it’s Halloween, let’s play Onmyoji music today! ?
Speaking of the success of Onmyoji, one cannot avoid the beautiful original music in the game. Speaking of the music producer? Umebayashi Shigeru, you may be a little unfamiliar, but when it comes to his works, you must be familiar with them.
Over the past ten years, Shigeru Umebayashi has been responsible for scoring more than 30 Hong Kong and Japanese films. The score he composed for the film "Afterwards" in 1985 has become the most collected worth of movie soundtracks; in 2001, his composition for the movie "Onmyoji" also became a generation classic; familiar soundtracks for movies such as "In the Mood for Love", "2046", and "House of Flying Daggers" are all composed by him. The music of the "Onmyoji" mobile game is all composed by Umebayashi Shigeru himself, and it has a solemn and gorgeous Japanese elegance.
The process of creating game music is the same as that of movie music, and there is no room for sloppiness in the details. When composing Onmyoji music, Umebayashi Shigeru first considered how to express the beauty of Onmyoji through music, which is soft and abstract. Because in his eyes, Onmyoji is a person with super powers, and in such a bizarre theme, how to use traditional Japanese instruments to play the beauty and enchantment of the peaceful world is the biggest test.
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An interesting episode happened while making the Spring Garden music. The Onmyoji team believes that spring is a season of vitality and blooming flowers, and music should convey a positive atmosphere. But Umebayashi Shigeru put forward a different point of view: In Japan, the most famous masterpiece of spring music is "SAKURA". That song has a touch of sadness, and the style of spring expressed is very different from that of China. Ultimately, in order to fully embody the Japanese culture, the current spring garden music conveys the feeling of Japanese spring - bright and sad.
Umebayashi Shigeru's compositions are macroscopic and powerful, and the situations described in many works are vividly visible. When you open the Onmyoji mobile game, you may have an illusion: the drums are roaring, the big monsters are slowly appearing, the orchestra is gentle, and a crowd of monsters and monsters are following behind. Through music, players can experience the changes in the character's situation and the rapid alternation of emotions. Gorgeousness and eerieness intersect in Umebayashi Shigeru's music, outlining the story of the thousand-year-old Kyoto's Hundred Ghosts.
But in fact, Umebayashi Shigeru is not proficient in all Japanese musical instruments, and needs to add more imagination when composing music. The actual performance effect is different from the imagined effect. How to skillfully use traditional Japanese instruments, integrate them with modern orchestral music, and shorten these gaps is the key to expressing the atmosphere and rhythm.
The BGM of "Shiratsou Lord's Fox Eyes" skillfully uses taiko drums and shamisen, and the rapid alternation of surface and dot syllables creates a grand and exciting tense atmosphere.
The background music of the Autumn Garden and "Deep Sadness" mainly use the shakuhachi. The former plays a quiet and leisurely style. feeling; while the latter expresses deep sorrow in a low tone.
Speaking of the song "Boundary in the Middle", it uses a fast thirteen-string guzheng to express the joyful scene of the Chinese magicians strolling leisurely and contentedly in the realm. .
From a Japanese perspective, Umebayashi continues the world of Onmyoji and creates a new and unique style of classic music tailored for Onmyoji. The organic combination of the beautiful painting style and the haunting sound has made the Onmyoji mobile game a success. As Onmyoji said on its anniversary, "It's all because the world is too beautiful." The ecstasy of getting an SSR and the pain of clearing dungeons. Every game moment has a corresponding note, and the sound is emotional, so that players can feel that every note is full of memories.