On the evening of December 14th, the "2021 Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Digital Music Festival Game Music Finals" (hereinafter referred to as the "Finals"),co-hosted by Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Music and Art Development, Shanghai Mihayou Network Technology Co., Ltd. and HOYO-MiX was officially opened at the Shangyin Opera House.
This event is the final climax of the "2021 Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Digital Music Festival", the entire music festival lasted for three days, the first morning announced the establishment of the "Digital Music Professional Alliance", its emergence will play a positive role in the long-term development of the game music industry. On the final day, 14 players from 5 countries brought game music creations with the theme of "Original God" and other games, and the winner was decided in the comments of Chinese and foreign professionals.
In recent years, with the continuous deepening of high-quality products, more and more manufacturers have discovered the great value of game music. Mihayu and his Original Gods are among the explorers.
The fusion of a variety of musical elements and the interpretation of top orchestras have made the music of "Original God" loved by players, and the "Original God" online concert 2021 ——— "Melody of endless journey" on the B station reached 3.46 million.
In the finals, the suburban scenery of Mond and Rizuki, the classic scenes in "Original God" such as the Battle of the Dragon King of Ruotuo, and the CG of "Only The Adventure" and "Tianya Mingyue Knife Mobile Game" were turned into testing topics for the contestants, and the contestants also used their ingenuity to let the audience contact the "other side" of these games.
The unique interpretation is infused with people's hearts
In this competition, the contestants selected from 24 topics designated by the organizing committee, and combined the theme characteristics constructed by elements such as art style, scene atmosphere, character characteristics, and world view. The specific questions include "Keli Character MV", "Original God" Login Interface", "Ruotuo Dragon King Boss Battle", "Tianya Mingyue Knife Mobile Game" CG" and so on, which not only test the players' musical knowledge, but also test their understanding and grasp of the selected topics.
When cute and "explosive" go hand in hand
The title chosen by Andrew Osano, a contestant who advanced from overseas channels, is "Collie Character MV", as a popular character, the current "Character Demo - Keli: Dadada" on B Station has been played nearly 10 million times. Kerry's cute and agile temperament tests the contestants' grasp of the characters.
Andrew Osano's musical works, through light orchestral music, make the playful and energetic side of Kerry jump in the hearts of the listeners, and use Ucrili to express Kerry's innocent and cute temperament.
Wang Yiren of the University of Southern California Thornton Conservatory of Music fully demonstrated his internal strength through the interpretation of the music of "Ruotuo Dragon King Boss Battle".
When Miha you composed, through symphony, as well as the integration of electric guitar and erhu, he showed the grandeur of the boss battle song, and imitated the Chinese lyrics written by Chu Ci and sang through vocal chanting, creating an atmosphere of both intimacy and alienation.
Wang Yiren's work adds her understanding of the Ruotuo Dragon King, dividing the music into three chapters: The Awakening of the Dragon, Anger, and Frost.
Yu Hainan Airlines contestants brought "Mountains and Seas Dream", and the selection title presented was "Scenery outside the Liyue Moon". The whole repertoire takes the pentatonic scale and feather-tone spinning method as the core, laying the tone of the oriental style for the whole piece, and is good at expressing the cold and lonely Japanese flute as the main instrument, supplemented by the dulcimer and sitar, integrating the representative instruments of the East in reality into the overhead virtual world, with the intention of showing the unique temperament charm of the mysterious, ancient and leisurely world of the eastern kingdom of the mainland.
After fierce competition, David Soltany and his work "Serenity" won the first prize with the theme of "Original God" landing interface" as the theme.
Discover talents and empower the industry with events
Every musician from unknown to famous in the world needs to go through big and small competitions and grow up in the game. It can be seen that music events have a vital role in the cultivation of musical talents themselves, and the finals have allowed many "future stars" to emerge, and also provided a benchmark for the future development of the game music industry, providing continuous empowerment for the industry.
The wonderful interpretations of the contestants in turn received professional comments from the judges, and the opinions and affirmations in them also helped the contestants to deepen their understanding of music.
Game music has extraordinary value, and good concerts are the icing on the cake. In his speech, Mihayou Music Director and HOYO-MiX Manager Cai Jinhan gave his own insights on the value of game music.
First, game practitioners can only stand at the forefront of the times by making music that is both suitable for the product and refreshing; second, culture will give music a unique force, help players resonate with their own culture, and have a recognition of other cultures; third, in the era of digital music, everyone has the conditions to complete a simple musical work, so that players can integrate into the atmosphere of the music community, which will release more possibilities.
For the above three points, "Original God" proves it with its own content.
The original god game world is composed of a number of different styles of areas, and the music composition is based on orchestral instruments and adds different world music elements. Cai Jinhan said: "Maybe one day, when users hear a piece of music with the same cultural background, they will think of 'I heard it in the original god', so they will explore more content on their own." This is the supreme gaming experience we want our users to have. ”
Recently, "Original God" won the "PlayStation Game Music Award "Second Place in the Game Music Award", which is also an affirmation of its musical quality.
Barbatos, Zhong Li, General Raiden, the gods of various countries all represent different styles
It is worth mentioning that many players often generate richer creative ideas because of their inspiration after hearing the high-quality music of "Original God". On the B station, UP's "[Original God Worship age] let the wind tell you" created by UP main YuH_ChiliChill has even achieved more than 14 million plays.
Let domestic game music take to a new level
In the author's opinion, the miha tour and its original music team, HOYO-MiX, and Shangyin jointly held a special game music competition, conveying the message that "creators should not be buried".
Cai Jinhan, music director of MihaYou, said: "We are willing to provide a platform for talented music creators to show themselves. Let more music practitioners understand game music and join the game music industry."