I was often asked to create musical tracks as well, so I would compose music for these projects on the side. Shortly after joining the company, I began to oversee small- to mid-scale sound projects for our titles. Generally, multiple people would handle these things, but I really wanted to achieve something specific with my ideal sound, so I enjoyed doing these tasks alone. When I first came to Square Enix, my main responsibilities focused on sound effect creation, sound schematic designs, and other sound engineering work. How did you get involved with the Final Fantasy franchise? Soken-san is responsible for almost all of it.
Earlier this year, it broke the Guinness Book of World Records when it reached 384 unique songs - and that was before the June 2017 Stormblood expansion. The game rebounded and maintains a thriving community to this day. He served as sound director of the original FFXIV while franchise regular Nobuo Uematsu composed the music, but when Square Enix rebranded a rebuilt version of the game as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Soken-san assumed the role of sound director and lead composer. The critical response to the original FFXIV was nothing short of disastrous, spurring Square Enix to rebuild the game entirely, including the music, which is where Masayoshi Soken came in. Most Final Fantasy games are single-player RPG experiences, but FFXIV, much like FFXI before it, is an MMORPG akin to World of Warcraft in which players create characters and assume roles in a massive online fantasy world. Del Sol also has held residencies, led workshops, and performed at various educational institutions across the US.In many ways, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is an oddity for the broader Final Fantasy franchise, but it’s one that made the Guinness Book of World Records thanks almost entirely to one man: Composer Masayoshi Soken.
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The Quartet has performed on prominent concert series nationwide, including the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery in Washington, DC Symphony Space, NYC Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Santa Cruz Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY Clefworks Festival, Montgomery, AL Colorado Music Festival, Boulder Other Minds Festival, San Francisco Santa Fe Opera University of Vermont Lane Series and internationally in Switzerland, China, South Korea, Canada and Mexico. The group recently commissioned Terry Riley to write a new work for string quartet and guitar to be premiered with guitarist Gyan Riley next season.
With the support of prestigious institutions, Del Sol has commissioned and premiered over 100 works by a diverse range of contemporary composers, including Mason Bates, Gabriela Lena Frank, Chinary Ung, Mohammed Fairouz, Tania León, Ken Ueno, Peter Sculthorpe, Reza Vali and Per Nørgård.
Based in San Francisco, the group was founded at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1992. Del Sol has released seven critically acclaimed, full-length recordings since 2002, including two on the GRAMMY® Award-winning Sono Luminus label. Two-time winner of the top Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the Del Sol String Quartet is a leading force in 21st century chamber music, commissioning and performing outstanding new works from around the world, collaborating with other artists in multi-media, dance, video and opera productions, and providing innovative educational programs.
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