Musical Identity and Motifs of Zero Escape (Video Game Music Theory)
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2023
- Back with an analysis video! This time of a series I’ve wanted to discuss for a very long time. Spike Chunsoft’s, Zero Escape, written by Kotaro Uchikoshi and composed by Shinji Hosoe. Zero Escape has an fascinating musical identity and contains many important motifs across the entire series. Here’s a video discussing them!
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Finally some Zero Escape analysis! Really enjoyed doing this. As my Discord will know, I'm thinking about doing short analysis videos on RUclips Shorts so any ideas let me know!
One of my favorite little music things in Zero Escape is the four note sequence for “Seek a way out” since it’s the most obvious use of the Morphogenetic sorrow leitmotif, but also because the four note sequence works in tandem with the four syllable phrase “Seek-a-way-out.” It also fits the four syllable phrase “Ze-ro-esc-ape,” but that’s more likely a coincidence since the Japanese name has six (Kyo-ku-gen-das-shu-tsu)
Oh wow never thought about the syllables. Even if it's just a coincidence, it's a great observation
duuuude, this video rocks! zero escape is one of my all-time favorite video game series and I'm so happy you covered it's OST! I've always considered it's music to be more atmospheric, but I never realized just how intricate and well-composed it really is. I swear that background synth in Recollection is also used in one of the Danganronpa games, but I could just be tripping, lmao
(slight spoilers below for those of you who haven't played any of the games)
I find it very cool that a lot of the tracks incorporate Morphogenetic Sorrow, since a core detail of the series is pretty much centered around the morphogenetic field, so it's almost like we're subconsciously being fed the leitmotifs through the morphogenetic field. does that make sense? idk i'm not a science guy, lmao.
Duuuude I knew ZE had a heavy emphasis on leitmotifs correlating with Morphogenetic Sorrow, but I didn't know there were THIS many tracks... right on for enlightening me!
Fantastic explanations! This is a series where I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to its music outside of the game, but it’s so distinct that you could start to imagine how other “anxiety tracks” could fit into the game when there’s even a bit of overlap
The idea of sonic identity isnt really a term ive heard of before but it makes sense. Like i can immeadiately tell when a song is from Atelier. But thats probably because the sound is insanely unique in video games.
Dude I love your music on spotify!! Your rendition of Monitors gives me chills!!
Thanks so much!! Really appreciate it
A great breakdown of the musical identity of a (relatively) obscure series. Very well structured, loved the presentation, easy to understand for even a musical neophyte; you've got a really great head for this kind of content.
Earned a sub from me, at least.
Always glad to see people talking about Zero Escape. As a non-musician it was great to get your breakdown of the repeated elements between songs and the different games. Ill also shout out my favorite ZE track - Septenary Game from 999. Its not QUITE panicked, but it has a ton of energy and forward momentum to it.
Just as I finished ZTD! Thank you
I love the soundtracks of this trilogy, really enjoyable video!
Wow Thank you i Love this series and it's music and producing music! I aspire to be the best musician in my country Poland and been practicing everyday for at least 8 hours for 2 years (nearly daily with no life beside studying music theory, mixing, piano, guitar and percussion, and song structares) and your channel helps me with my plan. Thank you!
I'd _love_ if you did a video on the escape tracks! I've noticed there's a musical identity in the puzzle tracks that I have not heard in any other piece of music.
But I'm not a musician so I have absolutely no idea what it _is,_ and I'd love to find out more. I'm only an expert in _listening_ to the tracks (over 600+ hrs combined), not _understanding_ them.
I loved this video!! You go into more detail than the usual video game music review, but making it really easy to parse. Keep it up!!
Omg I LOVE this
Thank you for the video bro!
Oh wow ZE is one of my favorite serias and it is really cool to see a video of this kind on it!
SO glad to see a video discussing zero escape's soundtrack! it's one of the most underrated video game OST's out there, i've been waiting for a video like this for a while
Great video! Thank you for analyzing it and explaining
Oh, man, this video was amazing! Haven’t seen your channel before now, but I’m definitely subscribing!
seeing a really good 999 musical analysis video like this was such a nice surprise!!
Fantastic video, and great breakdown of the themes!! I can't believe I never caught that reference in Chill and Rigor 😭 I'd love to hear more about the escape themes if you do make that video!
(Also it still makes me so sad that ZTD doesn't use the Morphogenetic Sorrow motif at the start of escape rooms 😔)
I love this video! It explores the familiarities and similarities in the music of ZE really well
I love this!! The music and general sound design from zero escape is some of my favourite in any video game. It evokes such a vivid sense of place for me. This was a great analysis, really interesting! I don’t know enough about music theory to have any ideas for future analyses, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on the puzzle themes.
great video! I didn't realize Morphogenetic Sorrow was referenced in so many other pieces. having the side-by-side was helpful
Damn exactly what I needed!!!
Very good video!!
this was superrr interesting I really appreciate seeing the love you give this series music!
Appreciate you for watching the video! Thank you
This is such an insanely cool and well-crafted video!! Thank you so much for this; I really enjoyed it.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
Very cool! I would love to see a vid about the puzzle tracks; they're probably my favourite pieces on the soundtrack.
Same, IMO the puzzle tracks are really underrated! They also make for _perfect_ coding or assignment-writing music!
I've listened to the puzzle tracks from VLR for over 500 hours, mainly for studying, and I love them all. (999's and ZTD's too, although I've listened to those less.) It's slightly annoying that the tracks are in such a unique "style" that I can't even find any music that scratches the same itch. I can't even describe the style myself though, I just know that it exists and that nothing else I've found is like it.
Love it!
After a minute I can already tell this video is going to send me on a mental trip down 999 and VLR lane with all the associated feelings. I think I'll save this video for when I next replay the trilogy.
very simple music it is. oh and have you noticed ( 9:50 ) A>G>D melody is exactly same in Luna theme from FF XV
Would love to see analysis of the music from somnium files
Yee I love video game music theory and I love 999
I need a 4th game!!
Please upload your zero escape medleys to spotify!!
They just got approved to be on Spotify! I imagine within 10 days it will be there
Woo!
I love you