Our first anime-styled commission!
Eeee! I've been excited about THIS commission for a while. Book commissioned us for a few songs, but two of them presented us with a genre we've been wanting to dip our feet into for a while --- 90's Anime!
The commission was for a theme for a Sailor Moon themed guild. I've only recently gotten my husband into anime over the last few years but one thing that always drew him in was the vastly different style of music not just in their pop and rock genres but even their classical style of arrangement. There's something very whimsical and emotional in each and we wanted to see if we could capture some of that with both a retro anime and modern pop anime sound.
We used a few synthy instruments (synth choir, for instance), piano percussion and even a Victorian music box on top of some weaving of classical and pop-style violin bowing. Mat describes it best in his description below - feel free to give it a read for a peak behind our process!
For those curious, a few inspirations for the piece were definitely watching Evangelion, Re:Zero, Madoka, to name just a few...
[youtube]Qh-KTX_bgFQ[/youtube]
Eeee! I've been excited about THIS commission for a while. Book commissioned us for a few songs, but two of them presented us with a genre we've been wanting to dip our feet into for a while --- 90's Anime!
The commission was for a theme for a Sailor Moon themed guild. I've only recently gotten my husband into anime over the last few years but one thing that always drew him in was the vastly different style of music not just in their pop and rock genres but even their classical style of arrangement. There's something very whimsical and emotional in each and we wanted to see if we could capture some of that with both a retro anime and modern pop anime sound.
We used a few synthy instruments (synth choir, for instance), piano percussion and even a Victorian music box on top of some weaving of classical and pop-style violin bowing. Mat describes it best in his description below - feel free to give it a read for a peak behind our process!
For those curious, a few inspirations for the piece were definitely watching Evangelion, Re:Zero, Madoka, to name just a few...
[youtube]Qh-KTX_bgFQ[/youtube]