Final Fantasy VII Symphonic Suite: Songs of the Lifestream
Movement 1: Opening - Bombing Mission
By: Nobuo Uematsu
Arr. Zeynep Dilli
Final Fantasy VII starts in media res, in an opening cinematic that is hard to match even now in its iconic power-the pretty face of a beautiful, but pensive, flower girl, pulling back to a wide-angle shot of sky and a decidedly cyberpunk city, segueing into-what’s this, a train station...? Why am I fighting these guards? We all need to get on this train to go... somewhere...? To do what, again? Why? In between tutorial fights, the backstory comes in bits and pieces, but you remain uncertain of why or how the character you are controlling has thrown his lot in with this group of eco-activists and ended up on this train...and why does that guy have a machine gun for an arm?! The disorientation and vagueness in the backstory are deliberate. Welcome to playing as a main character with a fractured mind and personality, courtesy of an extremely bad case of PTSD.
After the sweet, focused opening in the high voices with the flower girl, the music swells as the camera pulls back to the full cityscape and crashes into a fanfare that accompanies the game title’s appearance. Once the train sequence begins, the music jumps disorientingly between ideas every eight measures, a few times not even completing the full eight. This arrangement takes the disorientation further, with the inclusion of a sequence where musical ideas are torn apart and distorted and mixed up-or occasionally, appear with that momentary clarity of some dreams...or nightmares. All throughout, the clacking of the train wheels rises and falls, the force driving us inexorably to the crashing end.
A special Thank You to the Prince George's Community College Center for the Performing Arts & Humanities Department for filming and streaming our concert.
Video Producer: David Werner
Video and Stream Coordinator: Jarel Jones
Recording Audio Engineer: Josh Haas
Video and Audio Editor: David Werner
Additional Audio Assistance: Jimyo Lin, David Crisler, Scott Luxenberg
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5 сен 2024
