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Shiro Sagisu is a well known anime composer who has been working on soundtracks since the early Eighties. He is a skilled pianist, and one of his specialties is writing love themes for the piano. I’m exploring two of his compositions today: “Seventeen Love” (1985) and “Quatre Mains” (2012). Both songs are themes concerning teenage love.

One of Shiro’s first anime soundtracks was for the 1985 anime Genmu Senki Leda (The Fantastic Adventures of Yohko). Shiro composed a beautiful piano melody entitled “Seventeen Love,” which begins with soft chords, then builds to a tempestuous climax: seemingly expressing the timeline of a relationship. I have never seen Leda, so I can’t comment on the story, but the music speaks of young love, naiveté and nostalgia. Here is a video sample with the track:

The ending, especially, makes me think of an abrupt end to the relationship. It’s so heart-rending and full of distress. Regardless, it effectively makes me feel like I’m listening to a love story through music.

Shiro’s most recent sweeping, and again, tempestuous, piano love theme is from the 2012 anime “Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo.”Having seen this anime, I can comment on the characters’ relationship. These teen characters are not explicitly stated to be lovers, but Shinji and Kaworu become closer than friends during the movie, and a special scene involving a seemingly impromptu piano duet reveals the “feelings” Shinji is experiencing with Kaworu through their music-making via a montage of images and colors. Offhand, I recall a scene with two white stallions running in a watercolor meadow and piano keys swathed in layers of rainbow colors, seemingly playing themselves. There are many more, but the scene depicts the two companions spontaneously composing their own duet. Subsequently, they bond and become partners in the main plot of the anime, involving the saving of the world and all that jazz. Here is a video sample of “Quatre Mains:”

I am particularly fond of the motif that begins at 0:31 seconds.

Shiro Sagisu has not lost his touch when it comes to piano compositions. It’s wonderful to listen to the differences between the two pieces, as they share the theme of young romance with musical flare. Again, “Seventeen Love” is from 1985, and “Quatre Mains” is from 2012.

I wanted to share this because I’m such a Shiro Sagisu fanatic, and because his music has been an inspiration to me in my game composing work. Comment with your thoughts, if you want!

312 - Vista del Mar - An older track I wrote for use in a coastal town RPG setting. I polished it up enough, I hope, so that someone will make use of it.

My first real project! I’ve been commissioned to write music for the soundtrack of “Echoes of Eternea,” an indie RPG game produced by Ryan Harmon and his team at KickStarter. Check out this fantastic project. Its projected release date is in 2013, and it has a significant USD budget in the tens-of-thousands range.

I wrote the music heard in the following video. It’s the “Megaboss” battle theme from my RPG Maker Sound Color set. Check it out and download it here, along with the rest of my music portfolio. 

I’m excited to be a part of this project for many reasons, the foremost being that I grew up playing games similar in design to this one. If you’re a Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Warrior/Quest, RPG fan, this is a must-see work-in-progress.

**Note: The Spelling of “Eternea” has recently been changed. Some of the graphics on the site still reflect tho old spelling.**

The official website is located at:

Echoes of Eternea - A Modern Take on a Classic Design

As always, thanks for listening.

~Aaron Krogh

“Edward Chris von Muir” Artwork from Final Fantasy 4 © Yoshitaka Amano

Hello, there! I’m a beginner at composing music, but for several years I’ve used Steinberg’s wonderful Sequel software to write music to use in video game creation. I’m particularly fond of Enterbrain’s RPG Maker programs that allow newbies like me to create role-playing computer games; the programs require no scripting experience and are bundled with just about everything a game creator needs to make a two-dimensional RPG.

I’ve been writing my own music to import into my projects, and I want to share them with you. Feel free to download and use these tracks in any way you please. All I ask is that you credit me, amkrogh89, in your projects.

This blog will be my music journal. As I write more tracks, I’ll share them with you. I hope you enjoy the tunes and put them to use.

Au revoir,
amkrogh89