You can check out some of his inventive compositions via the here’s one of his early tracks: In the early 90’s, Valtonen, under the alias Purple Motion (🤘😈🤘), became the lead composer of the Future Crew (imagine a loose hip-hop crew, but with all the street cred of a floppy disk). This lead him to become part of the computer subculture known as the demo scene in particular being part of a group of composers using the first ‘tracker’ on PC (music software similar to the Amiga module system which spawned the MOD scene).
Jonne Valtonen: From Future Crew to Final SymphonyĪlthough Jonne Valtonen started his music education on the piano, his first original pieces were composed using notation software on a Commodore 64. ( iTunes feed)Įckehard Stier conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, recording Final Symphony at Abbey Road Studios : Keep an eye on The Sound Architect podcast feed for an audio interview with Valtonen about the symphony in the coming weeks. The challenge was multifaceted, involving careful musical selection, arrangement, instrumentation and orchestration choices.īelow we take a forensic look at the three movements of the Final Fantasy VII Symphony, arranged by Finland’s Jonne Valtonen.
Those original Uematsu tracks (up until Final Fantasy X) were composed to be voiced by the sound chips of 1980’s and 90’s game consoles - thus they never really came close to sounding like real-world ensembles. As well as on all major digital platforms, the album is available on CD and 3xLP vinyl via .Ĭreating Final Symphony was no easy feat arrangers Jonne Valtonen, Roger Wanamo and Masashi Hamauzu were tasked with weaving together melodies, rhythms and textures from among hundreds of in-game tracks into new orchestral works arranged in a classical style. The concert was produced by Merregnon Studios’ founder, Thomas Böcker, who also saw to it that the body of work was recorded in the best possible way: at the legendary Abbey Road Studios (where it was also mixed and mastered) and performed by the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra. There is a companion podcast to this piece, available via the Sound Architect podcast feed or at this page.įirst performed in Germany in 2013, the Final Symphony concert suite draws on the music that video game composer Nobuo Uematsu created for three of the most popular JRPGs of all time: Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X. We tease out all of the Nobuo Uematsu tunes that went into Jonne Valtonen’s Final Fantasy VII Symphony - from the devilish One-Winged Angel to the delicate Aeris’s Theme.
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