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An interview with Theophany, the man behind the Majora's Mask remix album
A portion of a Zelda Informer interview with Theophany...
ZI: Time’s End is a beautiful rendition of the world of Majora’s Mask, you did an fantastic job capturing its essence in song; what made you decide to do Time’s End?
T: I think my friend Mike and the reaction that people had to the original Time’s End were important factors. The original Time’s End is essentially Mike’s track, I didn’t come into the process until after he had written the first half of the arrangement. My contribution was mostly sound design and the idea of doing a build up to Song of Time with a reversal at the end. We did the track in one night, subbed to VGMix and stopped working on music. Then a few years later we found Time’s End on YouTube with a few hundred thousand views. We couldn’t believe it. I vaguely recall one of the comments; someone said they kept having a dream about the end of the world and every time he had the dream he could hear Time’s End playing the background.
The impact of that stuck with me. Mike used to talk about doing an album for Time’s End. Sometime around 2009 I thought, if I’m doing a Majora’s Mask remix album then it has to come out on December 21, 2012. So that became the album’s major theme as I continued to work on it. The whole concept of a countdown to the end of the world is unique to Majora’s Mask so I felt fans would immediately catch on and appreciate it. It also seemed like there was never much fan art for Majora’s Mask. Despite the love people have for this game it was always overshadowed by Ocarina of Time. I think that’s part of what inspired me to work harder and push the project as far as I could.
Full interview here
ZI: Time’s End is a beautiful rendition of the world of Majora’s Mask, you did an fantastic job capturing its essence in song; what made you decide to do Time’s End?
T: I think my friend Mike and the reaction that people had to the original Time’s End were important factors. The original Time’s End is essentially Mike’s track, I didn’t come into the process until after he had written the first half of the arrangement. My contribution was mostly sound design and the idea of doing a build up to Song of Time with a reversal at the end. We did the track in one night, subbed to VGMix and stopped working on music. Then a few years later we found Time’s End on YouTube with a few hundred thousand views. We couldn’t believe it. I vaguely recall one of the comments; someone said they kept having a dream about the end of the world and every time he had the dream he could hear Time’s End playing the background.
The impact of that stuck with me. Mike used to talk about doing an album for Time’s End. Sometime around 2009 I thought, if I’m doing a Majora’s Mask remix album then it has to come out on December 21, 2012. So that became the album’s major theme as I continued to work on it. The whole concept of a countdown to the end of the world is unique to Majora’s Mask so I felt fans would immediately catch on and appreciate it. It also seemed like there was never much fan art for Majora’s Mask. Despite the love people have for this game it was always overshadowed by Ocarina of Time. I think that’s part of what inspired me to work harder and push the project as far as I could.