Yuki Kajiura Interview in Sound & Recording Magazine

[sprinterXkyrie]

Thank you for the scans, @Daiima !!!..

 

[Daiima]

^ no idea, tried to compare with the US guys that helped in elemental and Fiction albums but none fits

@sora

ジョージ・マリノ = George Marino (died in 2012), world-class sound engineer.

Thank you minna

 

[george1234]

^ poor guy :(

 

[aki]

thought this had some relevance to this thread (though it's from a 2003 interview)



Q: Do you use any computer programs to work on your music?



Kajiura: Yes, it’s a very important thing for me. I’m a Macintosh user. Why are you guys laughing? (Abe’s interview was directly before hers, read up on it to get the reference) I use Digital Performer; it’s a music sequencer software.

 

[Martin]

^Interesting! Hmm...I wonder if the Abe person interviewed was Yoshitoshi Abe (the artist who worked on Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei). He uses Macs a lot for his drawing iirc.

 

[aki]

^I couldn't find the mentioned interview but it looks like Yoshitoshi Abe was at AX that year.

also, from a 2002 interview

Studio Gear: PowerMac G4/533MHz (384M) and many instruments

Sound Tools: ProTools, Digital Performer

RB: What is your process for creating music? In what kind of environment do you create your music?

YK: Mainly I write tunes in my room with piano, but if I hit on a melody when I’m walking, I write it as a score. Though there are many ways to create music, I value the first phrase that comes into my mind 
(usually it is a melody, sometimes a rhythm or like a riff of synthesizer), and regard the arrangement 
as a decoration which emphasizes the phrase I want to express. I make arrangement in the way as above, maybe a matter of course.