Animage June 1980 - Ideon BGM Interview with Koichi Sugiyama

 



The June 1980 issue of Animage features a spotlight on Sunrise's Space Runaway Ideon anime, which had only just begun airing on TV a couple months prior. Included in this spotlight is an interview done with the show's composer—Koichi Sugiyama—where he talks about the BGM he composed for the anime.

Below is an English translation of the interview. Magazine scans were provided by Mitchell (@RoarkVegeta on Twitter), and the interview was translated by Windii. Many thanks!

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What's the BGM?!
Music: Koichi Sugiyama

Anime BGM is a genre that fans pay particular attention to. What are the musical tendencies of Ideon's background music?

Sugiyama:
Animation music, especially background music for science fiction, is often thought of as using a lot of electronic technology. For Ideon, I tried to make use of live sound rather than synthesizers and other artificial sounds. In other words, we used the sound of an orchestra as it is.
This time, I created 10 movements of background music. Each of them is composed of several pieces. I wanted to create pieces of music with the scale of Ideon. I tried to depict the cosmic expanse and the people who live within it. This BGM will soon be released as a King Records LP, and I hope everyone will listen to it. I am very proud of it, after all!

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That about wraps it up. Short, I know...to be honest, his response here isn't any different than what he had written later in the liner notes for the Kojika Monogatari OST (he had also written on there that he wished to use live sounds rather than synthesizers).

This is the first (out of several) translated interviews I'll be posting, BTW. Keep an eye out for the other ones!

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