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Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

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Nobuo Uematsu
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 21
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Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.
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I receive more fan mail from the females.
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I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.
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And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
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I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
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And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.
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Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.
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Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.
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There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
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I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
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However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
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Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.
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We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.
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So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.
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I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
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For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
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It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
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