"Travelers' Musings" - Behind the Scenes of the Music of Inazuma | Genshin Impact 

This is so inspiring and very eye-opening to see the complex process behind the scenes. Thank you Yu-Peng Chen, the music department, Orchestras and their musicians for bringing the beautiful Genshin Soundtrack to life!

These videos are always interesting! If Mr. Chen ever wanted to talk music with his fanbase in the West, I'd be delighted to interview him like I did with Nobuo Uematsu-san 👀

The fact that the video showed from 4:42 to 7:16, is I think Mihoyo was brave yet confident enough to release that footage. It feels very real that the situation was quite degrading, especially from how the conductor was quite offended by the composer keep asking in and out of "smaller" parts. Plus, this orchestra is Tokyo philharmonic orchestra, which represents the nation. I am very impressed by Mihoyo decided to show the authenticity of the music production. But I think that is why this BTS documentary makes more meaningful. That there wasn't just happy moments everytime, and instead, they decided to show ups and downs of the process, which made this video more interesting to watch. Considering their situation how they are communicating through facetime calls under COVID, it surely must have been much more difficult to communicate and dissatisfying of not being able to see things face to face in person. Overall, I eventually watched several times because how interesting the process was.

I have been in an orchestra production as part of the choir and I kid you not, there are times where we go over literally 2 bars of music for 40 minutes or more. Sometimes the choir fucked up, other times the clarinet missed a beat, or the percussionist has an off day and didnt hit hard enough. It was rough back then and that's when everyone speaks the same language, in the same building, and we were only doing 1 piece of music. I cannot imagine the difficulty of doing this under pandemic conditions. Mad, mad props to everyone involved.

Can't wait to see the concert. I hope there will be more behind the scene like this, truly inspiring!

if my assumption is correct, that guy at 3:14 is functioning both as a translator, music analyst and director's assistant. i can't stress how crazy this is, the guy must understand the music close to yu peng chen's level in order to communicate the translation to the japanese MD, conductor, and musicians. sometimes he asks for extra things that the yu peng chen didn't exactly instructed like different score for just the horns, and maybe instructing a glissando, to help convey yu peng chen's direction, indicating that he's very familiar with the scoring. if he just interpret directions verbatim, without understanding of the score, this would not work at all.

i love how they care about the orchestra's feelings and understand their troubles. these musicians are professionals but they still can get tired, and mihoyo does their best to have them feel good while also putting effort in playing the piece without getting too worked up. playing in an orchestra is so hard man, i appreciate the work of the musicians and of mihoyo. the music in this game truly is amazing and is the proof of all the hard work behind the scenes

When you put this into perspective, they already made Japanese (Inazuma), Chinese (Liyue) and somewhat German/European music (Mondstadt), all fully orchestrated. And there's still 4 nations left in the game (probably French, Russian, Arabic/Indian/Egyptian, and Andean/Spanish kind of music). They're literally facing a monumental challenge, but surely, when all the nations have been released we'll have in our hands one of the most incredible soundtracks ever made in the history of gaming. The world itself represented in Genshin.

I played in a wind orchestra, and to practice, rehearse and to refine the music to perfection was exhausting and time-consuming. I can only imagine trying to do the same not only through online communication but also a language barrier. Mad respect to the producers and musicians. Goodness know they are legends.

This soundtrack deserves all the awards. It's absolutely brilliant.

Genshin really deserves the credit it gets. So much effort for even the most minute of details...you could listen to all the OSTs on loop for months and still not be bored of them

I really want more behind the scenes content of this game. Makes me want to appreciate the people creating this content even more.

the music itself was developed in **FOUR** months. let that sink in. i hope this makes players realize how tough game development is and to not rush the developers with releasing content because there are so many things that go into making the game. the music took four months, what more the actual coding of the game, the creation of the nation, the development of the characters? it's already incredibly impressive that mihoyo is sticking to its promised timeline of an update every six weeks. that is nuts especially compared to other live service games. imo one of inazuma's biggest weaknesses is the story and i feel like if they had more time to write it, it would've turned out okay. but they definitely felt pressured to release it because players were getting antsy since it had been a while since the last region got released. thankfully, their music department never disappoints. it is definitely an amazing soundtrack. bravo to yu peng-chen, the tokyo philharmonic orchestra, the conductor hirofumi kurita, and the rest of the amazing team at hoyo-mix! edit: added words.

5:27 This part of the video really shows something that Genshin Impact has been trying to achieve: collaboration and understanding between cultures. The difficulty of appropriate and effective communication between professionals from different cultures, as well as the challenges of collaboration between creators (composer and producer) and performers (conductor and musicians), are beyond imagination (not to mention they did this virtually). You can also see the cultural difference in this small incident behind the scene: the Japanese team really cared about the details, such as holding breath throughout the performance to avoid any noise, the proper way of oral expression (translation), and the feeling of performers, while the Chinese team focused more on the macroscopic aspect, such as the completion of a track, the combination of different instruments, etc.

After seeing this hardwork, For those who's keep spreading the OST LEAKS before the patch is live. You guys really have a heart, aren't you?

I’m glad their not overworking them and their all having a pleasant time doing their job, seeing someone from the music production team smile or laugh or them all laugh is kinda nice to see. Keep up the amazing work HOYO-MiX!~

Brilliant behind the scenes, really enjoyed seeing how everything came together. the difficulties and the solutions. I look forward to the next one for the next land.

"Hey percussionists, could you take a break?" *sad castanets sound*

I just had the time to watch this in full... truly an intense process.... a lot of hard work and passion are involved in this project!

I can't imagine the logistical nightmare of having to communicate and collaborate virtually just to compose and record the tracks they did. It's nothing short of a miracle pulling off what they did. Great job all around.

It's great how much they try to honor the Japanese theme, and even bought a whole damn orchestra just to do that.

Now I'm REALLY CURIOUS how Yu Peng Chen will do the rest of the songs for the next regions

We'll be missed you, Yu Peng Chen. Thank You for composed such a great music.

"sorry for making my compositions so hard to play" well, at least he's self-aware xD again, though, Mr Chen is an absolute legend. The music single-handedly convinced me to play this game. And to this day, he has never let me down

My goodness. I felt so many emotions while watching this behind the scenes clip. Awe - at how they could collaborate virtually to make such a masterpiece. (It's super difficult to communicate effectively online, trust me, I'm a teacher who had to do online lessons due to covid) Sadness - For the hardworking percussionists who were literally told to go home (I used to be a band member so I can resonate with how that feels.) Stress & anxiety - for the translator who was getting reprimanded & Yu-Peng for not phrasing his intentions more sensitively. Empathy - For the musicians who needed to work overtime. (I know how that feels too well too) Relief - When they somehow managed to work out their differences and everyone seemed a bit happier (giving each other thumbs up, clapping and expressing thanks to encourage one another). Inspiration - by the humility that was displayed by both Yu-Peng and the various parties involved where they didn't insist on their way, but cooperated, accomodated, tried their very best to reach the vision that sensei has and acknowledged that they had much to learn. Appreciation - I don't think I can listen to inazuma's music without remembering the time and efforts that multiple parties invested to make this, as the conductor rightly said, a resounding success.

what an honour to listen to yu-peng chen talk about his compositions

“can we remove the percussionists for this piece?” *the percussionists will remember that*

This is pretty much a way of introducing and preserving the origins of Japanese traditional music to a new generation of audience.

Under the current global political climate, a cross-cultural collaboration like this is truly refreshing .

This really shows how much effort MiHoYo put into the game, especially when each region of Teyvat is based off real countries/continents in the world and they made the soundtracks using those instruments from the region they were inspired

How is the music of this game always god-like Outside of the game, thank u hoyo mix and yu peng chen for bangers after bangers of osts EDIT: lots of spam replies under this comment (and OTHER comments as well), please do not click any links

This makes me appreciate Genshin Impact more. It's almost perfect when it comes to music

FROM HOYO-MIX TO YU-PENG CHEN TO EVERY ONE INVOLVED IN CREATING THOSE MASTERPIECES : THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK. AND TRUST ME YOUR MUSIC IS LOVED FROM ALL THE GENSHIN IMPACT PLAYERS AND MUSIC FANS the way i was close to tear up seeing how coordinated they are .. and most importantly the respect they have for one another .. this is so inspiring and motivating .. i want to work as hard as they do with respectful people just as them.

The part where they requested for them to not hurt the musicians’ feelings by just telling them they’re unnecessary for the piece stresses me out so much lol. As a japanese speaker i can tell that man was quite upset, and for a good reason too. But these sort of stuff always happen when you’re communicating with a lot of people in different languages. I appreciate hoyo-mix for leaving this part in because it shows just how much work went into creating the soundtrack for inazuma, including in matters outside of music writing. Kudos to everyone involved, especially that translator.

ive started thinking about the fact that these wonderful people are basically creating our memories, in the next 20 years, some of us may will have different lives, some of us would have moved on from the game, finished studies, started a family, get a job, etc, maybe some of us will go back listening to those songs and let the nostalgia hit, thanks to Chen and these musicians, they're truly are amazing

Imagine the communications from Chinese composer to Japanese conductor. This is really all work hard and amazing

Beautiful. Genshin music will never disappointed us.

The music for Genshin is absolutely amazing! Everyone who works here is so talented! I originally believed Liyue had my favorite soundtrack but now it’s Inazuma!

A few months back, I asked for more of such videos to show the productions behind the scene, and here it comes. Again thank Mihoyo and Genshin for hearing me. I sincerely hope no more leaked music in the future, as it HURTS all the artists and production teams and people like me who really loves genshin music.

This is such a fun behind the scenes to watch. With how people get along behind the scenes and the amount of retakes and patience it takes to make sure the piece is perfect. Props to the musicians and the composers at mihoyo for making the gameplay that much more of a fun experience with their sound tracks.

I love the genshin impact music, it's so beautiful

Knowing the history between Japanese and Chinese people, it's heart-warming seeing them discuss and laugh together.

Yknow, behind all the fuss of anniversary and all that, this game has already exceeded my expectations. Sadly, it's moreover just known for its gacha. I, for once, can't wait to see the concert

I really admire how Yu Peng Chen express gratitude towards the Japanese musicians. He seems like a down-to-earth person when he's trying to send across his intentions with respect and professionalism.

I miss yu peng Chen ❤😢

Damn, the amount of dedication put into the music. I have so much respect for Yu Peng Chen for carrying this game

Dam. The amount of works they have done. The results that they get. The fact that that they did it by working away from each other just makes it even harder and it blows my mind. Thank you Hoyo Mix and everyone that works hard to give us player this beautiful music in game.

THIS ! I don't mind if I spend my money on Genshin Impact game. It's not about 'buying in-game items' but it's about appreciating the work and effort to all who participate. thank you Mihoyo

I gotta say. My most favorite song has to be the Ei Battle Theme. It’s just so good and the fact that this music is playing while fighting Ei makes my experience so good. I just wanna go back in time and feel that experience again.

I love how this video shows the true face of musicians: people who laugh at themselves and their peers. Who are disappointed when they are rejected from the recording, but anyways their took it with humor. Love the music, love the musicians, the compositor, the audio engineers, fixers, etc., love the conductor, love everything of this game!

I think this is the strongest part of Genshin Impact that makes players stay with them..

Remember, when you lose the 50/50: 1) Turn off the lights of your room 2)Turn on yu peng chen's music on your phone or laptop 3)Wait

Please make more videos like this! I loved seeing how there were conflicts with how the music is perceived by the performers and the needs of the composer. It really set a standard for the rest of Genshin Impact’s game score. PS. Sumeru is heavily inspired (allegedly) by the Middle East and I can’t wait to hear the music!

As a composer, I AM SO INSPIRED SEEING THE BEHIND THE SCENES of some of the music I highly love. Yu-Peng Chen is one of my favorite composers. Yuki Kajiura will always be the top for me. HAHA. But I love Yu-Peng Chen's work so much that it is clearly an insult if he's not able to receive any awards with the music he made especially for the Genshin Impact music (especially because of the complexity of the Inazuma and Liyue music.)

Probably my favorite video that came from this channel, it made me realize just how much thought goes into every little detail in the music of this game, and how much of a miracle it is to make an entire album worth of music when the composer is on another country, and speaking a different langauge. And I realllly liked how you gave us some real glimps of the process of working on the pieces, without any intervetions [i.e, interviewing and asking questions]. This felt very authentic!

6:41 its so intens when i was an evo some times me and my boss opinion dont go well with the presenter/invitation and me back then as the middleman and the one who is responsible for that session im really going to cry i really understand the team it must be complicated not just with the difference of the language but as how to convey the boss intentions correctly so there are no mistakes or misunderstanding ofc as middle man i dont want to ruin the event nor the mood during the sesion but seriously tho its really hard job. Much appreciated for the team you guys do well all the music come out nice!! Nice work you all! I love you!

yu-peng chen: 'i learned that battle music from previous regions is a hit with players' the players: 'MIhOyO DoeSN't LiSTen TO Usss'

I absolutely love Hoyo-mix's performance videos and this kind of behind the scene documentaries. It's so interesting to see the work that goes into the development of the OSTs and it makes me appreciate all the hard work poured into the game even more. Thank you so much for everyone's hard work in making the game so mesmerizing! Also, I'm looking forward to the concert!!!

Musicians, artist, animators, coders, author, and the rest of the team made and incredible job making a great game. They deserve more recognition!

I do really wonder if the artist, musicians and staff that made this songs know about us. If they know the pieces they performed, and even the small notes play constantly on our homes and heads If they know how we expect every note and every silence. If they know how it brought every smile, every standing ovation, every yay and every tear. It was hard but now you are part of our memories. Part of us.

This is like the ultimatum of MHY to the people who are saying "do they even care about us?" This is how much they really care about their playerbase and yeah even me ofcourse is disappointed at MHY anniv rewards but i cant be really mad at MHY when i literally see that the money i am spending on their game is returning directly into the game again, honestly i prefer that they return our money into this kind of things instead of giving it as a gacha because ingame experience is still much more important than ingame collectibles

Now we know where all the anniversary reward budget went Edit: Bot invasion in replies

Im surprised at the difference comments from Jp version of this vid. At the Jp version, people are thanking Mihoyo and Yu peng chen and did not talked about the anniversary reward and here....well, people are also thanking Yu peng chen BUT also bring out about the anniversary stuff, yall really love to hold a grudge huh, lol Can we stop talked about the anniversary reward and just appriciate their hardwork? These few days, when Genshin twitter acc tweeted something, i saw people sending hate comments, and i just cant believed what i saw.... Let's just wait until the day of the anniversary then yall can bash Mihoyo if you want... Im just saying...what IF they wanted to surprise their players, so thats why they dont really revealed the rewards... Imagine trying to surpise your players but got hate comments instead.. Oh well thats just my wishfull thinking, but even if they wont do that ill just take what i can get cuz i play this game just for entertaiment ☺

Holy moly, this is like a long battle to them. You guys already did your best to make us smile. And thank you mr.chen for bringing us around the earth together no matter where we are.

Such a lovely video. Thank you so much for this glimpse behind the scenes of this breathtaking music and game. It was a wonderful experience! Cannot wait for the concert!

i love videos like these, to see how complex masterpieces were being made carefully. to see how the recording process through online communication seems really complicated, but glad to see how all of them work together really well!

im surprised they included their wrongs at 6:22 and apologized afterwards. gj hoyomix

This is incredible stuff. Can't wait for music from future regions. Primarily Sumeru and Natlan. Looking forward to more videos like this as well.

Well theres a joke: The reason why the Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony was not good is Mihoyo hiring these genius musicians to make Inazuma music instead🤣

Oh my god!!! So much work, so much pacience, so much collaboration and making it through the distance. It is amazing, wonderful and so beautiful how they make together music like this. I have no words and i aprecciate all the talent, work and passion that is spent here. I can say Genshin Impact music is the best OST i have listened in my entire life playing different videogames from this type. Congratulations and thank you very much for this incredible experience. For real...

Tysm Mihoyo and Hoyo-mix making beautiful music

There's so much effort that was put into the making of this beautiful music, I love this game

ohmygod.. it's so beautiful, keep it up mihoyo:)!

It's really refreshing to see it and hear it in raw. Thank you so much Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Yu-Peng Chen, and everyone that are involved in the making of this masterpiece.

I love behind-the-scenes stuff like this!! Goes to show just how much creative energy and hard work is put into the game's music. Also makes you appreciate the musicians' dedication to their craft. This game truly won't be the same without its music. So excited for the concert!!

AWESOME WORKS!!! It is so very awesome to see what has been happening behind the scenes especially in the music department. Keep up the good work, HOYO-MiX team. :D

The music team's effort is always appreciated. They always bring out their best. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said to a certain other department...

The amount of hard work put in make me really appreciate the exceptional piece of music that is rarely seen even in movies or animation. Yu-Peng Chen sensei should be recognize to be in the same level as Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin!

Подобные видео показывают, насколько действительно грандиозная работа была выполнена и с какими трудностями создателям пришлось столкнуться. Когда играешь в игру, то особо не задумываешься, какова на самом деле величина этого айсберга) Спасибо, что показали эмоции и переживания людей, приложивших руку к созданию такой прекрасной музыки

Can't wait to see behind the scenes for Sumeru music

Thank you Mr. Chen, thank you Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra T-T I love the OST for all the regions very much.

I know the anniversary rewards were , let's face it really bad, but it feels like a disrespect to the amazing music they've put forth (bad anniversary rewards or not this music is amazing) to just be hating on the anniversary rewards and not giving proper thought to all the effort they put into this amazing soundtrack. I don't want to hate on anyone but it just doesn't sit right with me that in something completely irrelevant to the anniversary rewards is still getting hate comments about it even though the content in this video is a great portrayal of the process they have in creating Genshin's amazing music.

Looking at the gameplay design and pr team: “lately some of you have been a little out of sorts. Erratic, unreliable and downright sloppy” Looks at yu peng chen in the corner: “not you you’re being great”

This is honestly one of my favourite videos on the internet.

"Da da da da" - Yu-Peng Chen 2021

I'd like to see a team of people design the characters in Inazuma . Let's show some.

I always love these behind the scenes videos❤️❤️ I find them very interesting and It brings into picture just how much work goes into the game❤️

It's amazing that they still deliver one of the best experience in the game through the new Inazuma region despite the difficulties working in an pandemic especially considering the situation in Japan at the time of development. The composer didn't even get to hear these recording sessions on site

It put tears in my eyes on how beautiful the songs are and the effort that everyone contributed.

After watching this video, I realized what a difficult and colossal work the whole team working on the sound did. Even I, as an amateur musician, was able to highlight some of the points that were said in this video. I am very blog grateful to all those people and especially to Mr. Chen for creating such an incredible soundtrack filled with a storm of emotions.

Thank you to everyone involved in creating the Inazuma music💕

Se agradece que suban este tipo de videos. Es muy enriquecedor conocer los aspectos musicales del juego ya que son de gran calidad y nos ayudan a los que trabajamos en la cultura.

We should get a similar styled series for the art and visuals department from Mihoyo too. Come on, they must be feeling under appreciated considering the scale of work they put into this game and are still putting in for the upcoming regions.

Music has become my favorite part of Genshin Impact. Thank you for putting so much effort and passion into these beautiful compositions.

truly a set of talented and passionate people. thank you for the hardwork, do not worry because the music you've created is very appreciated and will always be.

Thank you for this wonderful piece to everyone involve in it. I also want to thank the one that make other sound such as shooting arrow and blade work, the wind and etc. Same goes to graphic designer. All of this create a beautiful feeling in game.

Massive thanks to everyone involved in the project for creating these amazing pieces of art...

I really love the soundtrack for Inazuma and really thankful for their hard work and effort for producing such beautiful music for Inazuma.

As a composer who has studied Chinese, but also loves Japanese game music, this is absolutely stunning to watch. Also to watch both cultures working together on really great music, just mind-blowing. 特别有意思！

This kind of thing Humanize a music and makes it extremely amazing. When we hear a composition, we hear an instrument, but the human behind it is not a factor unless we can see them, we can watch them work on making it happen. And this makes me feel like I can even hear effort whenever I hear the music in game. It's truly amazing and I would love more of these behind the scenes.