When A Man(-Child) Flies to London for a Single Reason That’s Got Nothing to Do with England

My year 10 science teacher was a charming old man, with a voice that’s so booming loud, me and my classmates theorized that he swallowed an always-on microphone somewhere along his eventful life.

A Melodic Comparison: Film Music’s Many Invaluable Personalities | Joe Hisaishi, John Powell

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Note: this publication is a highly extensive and lengthy endeavour that invite readers to refer back to for analytical ideas. In other words, it is written with a sea of wiki-style links to additional readings, clips and videos, endless subject matters, tangents and covers a lot of ideas. I recommend that you bookmark this page for future reference, whenever you feel the need for some creative writing ideas, or just some music-based observations you find difficulty in analysing or putting your ideas into words. I hope my efforts help you in that regard.

A few months ago, I went on a tweeting rampage:

Been watching a few game music concert streams on YouTube…sometimes I wonder about how scoring games is diff from scoring films.

— NaChiKyoTsuki (@NaChiKyoTsuki97) May 12, 2016

(You can find the entire tweet thread by clicking the time & date stamp.)

Analysis in Retrospect: Piano no Mori | The Expressive Core of the Piano

Alternative Titles: The Perfect World of Kai, The Piano Forest

Director: Masayuki Kojima

Animation Production: MADHOUSE

Music: Keisuke Shinohara

Genres: Slice of Life, Music, Competition, Supernatural

Year: 2007

Disclaimer: the societal commentary present in this publication are all the writer’s own personal observations and opinions. No journalistic or scholarly value and sources are cited nor present (unless stated otherwise).

Funomena Picks: Best of Anime 2015 | Part III

For my third and final venture into the best of anime 2015, I determine the overall winners of the year.

Below are my meticulously considered titles and studios that will be competing for and winning the Funomenon Globe (Took me 5 seconds to come up with this name…so it’s AWESOME. Design & 3D render pending.) for Best TV & Film Soundtracks, Top-Performing Studio and Favourite Anime of 2015.

Funomenal Rear-view Contemplation: Best of Film & Game Music 2015

It’s not every day you get to see a lady assassin, with a flute as her weapon, peeking out traditional Chinese windows…in the Vienna State Opera.

A Year With a Lot of Reawakenings

Allow me to temporarily defect to the West once more, as I look over how 2015 has treated my other passion: film music.