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Yoko Shimomura
Style and Influences
On her official website Shimomura lists Beethoven, Chopin and Maurice Ravel as her influences. She?s used many different styles of music such as industiral, chiptune, rock, electronica, oriental, ambient, symphonic, operatic and more.
She says she draws her inspiration from things in her life that move her emotionally. Anything that causes her to feel emotion gives her inspiration. She also says that she comes up with most of her songs when she?s doing something outside her regular routine like travelling.
Yoko Shimomura believes that an important part of her creative process is to try to convey a subtle message that comes from your imagination and sticks with you, without being too specific about what it means. She prefers this method over writing simple themes with obvious messages.
Out of all the music she has ever composed her all time favourite song is Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts.
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Interviewer: When you were a child, I imagine you had a passion for classical music. So what made you like game music?
Shimomura: Well, when I was little...we didn't have the NES. I'm from that era where "video-games" were arcade machines you played in places across the neighborhood, so I didn’t have much contact with game music. However, during my college years, I played Super Mario Bros. for the first time and the music just enticed me. This was the first time I realized there were people who made such music possible.
Interviewer: So then, you thought of becoming one of those yourself, I imagine?
Shimomura: Ever since junior high, I had this...passion for music. However, I had no idea on what I wanted to do in the music field. Such a vague feeling made me want to work in the music field, though *where* in the music field, that was a complete blank for me.
Interviewer: So you didn't even think you'd be going into the game field huh? Moving on...when you composed music for Capcom, how did that feel?
Shimomura: Funny you'd say that, because I had no idea Capcom even existed. I only heard about it during my junior years of college. During that time, Capcom and Hudson had an event in my college where they handed out flyers for a new game called "