the only podcast solely dedicated to the academic study of videogame music!
Hey everyone,
In trying to expand the audience of the show, I’ve been submitting the podcast to many-many-many directories, one of which is podcastalley.com, which allows listeners to vote for their favorite podcast and (votes willing) get the name posted on the index page for all to see!
You can vote for it at http://www.podcastalley.com!
Episode 11 is out in a few days! Keep your podcatchers open!
Kenley
My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-de906d74d7cff5e9894df785a19c3f02}
Hey everyone,
This is just a quick heads-up for those who subscribe to the wordpress feed (www.intothescore.com) that I’m going to do a “change of feed” to the actual iTunes feed, which is…
http://feeds.feedburner.com/intothescore
… for those who use podcatchers or Google Reader. This is the feed that iTunes uses, so I’m really just getting all of my ducks in a row and getting everything to go through one feed!
the original feed for this was http://intothescore.blueandbrownbooks.com/?feed=podcast
… not sure if that’s important, but if anyone is interested, there we go!
Also going to add an iTunes button just to help out!
Many a thank you,
Kenley
So just recently, Episode 9 has been getting some comments, which is super exciting - especially considering that they are from some veterans at OverClocked ReMix (http://www.ocremix.org). Larry “Liontamer” Oji has a very intense blog on the current affairs of video game music called “VG Frequency” and is absolutely worth checking out as soon as possible. It can be found, read and enjoyed at http://vgfrequency.blogspot.com/
…and the article can be read at http://vgfrequency.blogspot.com/2007/08/into-score-podcast-blends-vgm-with.html
Thanks for the write-up, Larry and keep up the amazing work!
In this special addition to Episode 10, we’re going to have a listen to Jeremy Robson’s “Final Fantasy VII Philharmonic Suite!” It was submitted and approved by the judges’ panel at OverClocked ReMix (http://www.ocremix.org) a few years back and now we get to hear it in its entirety!
Yeah! Episode 10! I’m really excited that “Into the Score” has survived such trials as the last year at University, last big student-teaching block, job-hunting and then having two jobs this summer - spot on, podcast 
Because we’ve reached double-digits, I decided to tackle a bigger score than usual - one that everyone would know and one to which most people have a sort of… emotional connection. This bi-monthly episode, the podcast focuses on Nobuo Uematsu’s brilliant score to Square Enix’s “Final Fantasy VII.”
The episode is quite huge - not going to lie to you, and it talks about a lot of big parts of the work - particularly regarding development, Cloud’s relationship to the Overworld theme and the character of Sephiroth (both musically and historically). There were a few things that I wanted to talk about in the episode, but to be honest, I simply forgot. The biggest one was the myriad of plot themes and macrocosmic ideas that get played out through the game.
There’s just so much! Abuse in power, the environment, love, loss… but not everyone takes away ALL of those themes, it’s as though the game speaks to everyone in a different way… that’s what’s really magical about it. I’ll let the music speak for itself, enjoy Episode 10!
Also, the addition to this episode, 10-2 (ha!) is the full performance of Jeremy Robson’s “Final Fantasy VII Philharmonic Suite,” which is unbelievably clever, crafty and beautiful. Definitely check this out after you catch this episode!
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