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Chrono Symphonic: A Cinematic Interpretation is an album of 25 songs, orchestral "rearrangements" of the music from the classic video game Chrono Trigger for the SNES. Chrono Symphonic is a non-profit collaboration of musicians and lovers of Chrono Trigger, the soundtrack of which having originally been composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu and Noriko Matsueda. The double disc album has each disc named after a pairing of elements, Fire/Light and Shadow\Ice. Inspired by a fan-made Chrono Trigger movie script by Andrew Triplett, the project marks OverClocked ReMix's first foray into amateur film scoring.

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Overview

The project began on October 15, 2004 with prospective artists auditioning past work for project manager Andrew Triplett, followed by having the participating artists pick tracks to recreate. The album was originally planned for release on September 27, 2005, a date incorrectly regarded as the tenth anniversary of the American release of Chrono Trigger (it was actually released on August 22). The project was later delayed on several occasions including audio engineer Roland Löhlbach belatedly receiving some participants tracks and experiencing various computer issues, project director Andrew Triplett addressing a lack of high-bandwidth mirrors, and webmaster Anders Gatu having to code the distribution script under too tight of a deadline.

The finished product, featuring the main album in MP3 format & CD artwork and referred to as the "Regular Edition," was officially released and spotlighted as OverClocked ReMix's sixth Site Project on January 3, 2006. As of July 11, 2006, the MP3 & FLAC [CD album torrent] was downloaded over 14,000 times.

Other songs cut out of the main album as well as other bonus features totaling about 10 tracks are planned to be released in a "Special Edition" in Q3 2006. Most of the additional material was previewed on the radio show [VG Frequency #84], including three live interviews featuring Bev "Rexy" Wooff, Kevin "Lorenzo" Sisk, and Löhlbach.

Audio design

Though almost completely digital, the album was intended to sound like a movie score. The convolution-based reverb settings used to simulate a live environment were that of the 700-seat Promenadikeskus Concert Hall in Pori, Finland. More information about the concert hall and its impulse responses is available on the Helsinki University of Technology web site (see external links).

Track listing

:Disc 1: Fire/Light
  1. "Inciting Incident" (Sephfire) – 3:36
  2. *originally "Presentiment" & "Chrono Trigger"
  3. "Morning Sunlight" (Sephfire, SirRus) – 4:23
  4. *originally "Morning Sunlight", "Peaceful Day", "Wind Scene" & "At the Bottom of Night"
  5. "Blue Skies Over Guardia" (DarkeSword) – 4:40
  6. *originally "Guardia Millennial Fair"
  7. "To Lands Unknown" (Sleepy Emp) – 2:06
  8. *originally "A Strange Happening" & "Magus' Castle"
  9. "Darkness Dueling" (LunarHeart) – 2:10
  10. *originally "Battle 1"
  11. "Lucca's Arrival" (Zas) – 3:05
  12. *originally "Far Off Promise"
  13. "Revelation of Fire" (Claado Shou) – 2:21
  14. *originally "The Hidden Truth" & "Singing Mountain"
  15. "Hymn of Valor" (Red Omen) – 3:36
  16. *originally "Courage and Pride", "Wind Scene", "Frog's Theme"
  17. "Frog's Intervention" (ellywu2) – 3:43
  18. *originally "Frog's Theme"
  19. "Denadoro Climb" (PLBenjaminZ) – 2:31
  20. *originally "Wind Scene"
  21. "The Masamune" (ellywu2) – 4:09
  22. *originally "Frog's Theme"
  23. "Darkest Omen" (mv) – 3:41
  24. *originally "Black Dream"
  25. "Confronting the Mystic" (Sephfire) – 2:02
  26. *originally "Battle with Magus" & "Lavos' Theme"
  27. "Door to the End of Time" (Blake Perdue) – 5:34
  28. *originally "The Brink of Time", "Frog’s Theme", "Wind Scene", "Lavos’ Theme" & "Peaceful Day"
  29. :Disc 2: Shadow\Ice
  30. "Manifest Destiny" (SirRus) – 2:34
  31. *originally "Corridors of Time"
  32. "Schala and the Queen" (ellywu2, pixietricks) – 6:34
  33. *originally "The Day the World Revived", "Schala’s Theme", "Corridors of Time", "Battle with Magus", "Lavos’ Theme", & "World Revolution"
  34. "The Third Guru" (Claado Shou) – 2:17
  35. *originally "Sealed Door" & "Wings That Cross Time"
  36. "Beneath the Surface" (Rellik) – 3:07
  37. *originally "Undersea Palace"
  38. "The Rising" (DarkeSword) – 2:07
  39. *originally "Undersea Palace", "Battle with Magus" & "Schala's Theme"
  40. "Crono's Dream" (DarkeSword) – 2:23
  41. *originally "Morning Sunlight" & "Peaceful Day"
  42. "The Chrono Trigger" (Russell Cox) – 3:27
  43. *originally "At The Bottom of Night" & "Far Off Promise"
  44. "A Parting of Ways" (Unknown) – 4:18
  45. *originally "Battle with Magus"
  46. "The Last Stand" (RoeTaKa) – 5:33
  47. *originally "Battle 1", "Battle 2", "Boss Battle 1", "Boss Battle 2", "Last Battle" & "Chrono Trigger"
  48. "The New Beginning" (Sleepy Emp) – 2:54
  49. *originally "Peaceful Day", "Millennial Fair", "Frog’s Theme", "People Seized with Life" (from Chrono Cross) & "The Frozen Flame" (from Chrono Cross & Radical Dreamers)
  50. "The Place We Knew" (Reuben Kee, pixietricks) – 3:54
  51. *originally "To Far Away Times", arrangement listed at OverClocked ReMix as "The Place We Knew"
  52. :The following tracks are special audition tracks that are not part of the project score. They will be available in the project's "Special Edition".
  53. :Disc 3: Return Through Time
  54. "Prologue" (Compyfox feat. Kevin "Lorenzo" Sisk) – 3:11
  55. "Determined" (PLBenjaminZ) – 2:46
  56. *originally "Chrono Trigger"
  57. "The Story Begins" (Sleepy Emp) – 3:06
  58. *originally "Chrono Trigger", "Peaceful Day", "Battle with Magus", "Frog's Theme" & "Wind Scene"
  59. "In Search of the Light" (SirRus) – 2:58
  60. *originally "Chrono Trigger"
  61. "Predetermination" (Unknown) – 4:16
  62. *originally "Chrono Trigger"
  63. "Belthasar's Opus" (Rexy) – ?:??
  64. *originally "Sealed Door"
  65. "Peak of Incantation" (Rexy) – 5:30
  66. *originally "Singing Mountain"
  67. "The Final Battle" (PLBenjaminZ) – 4:53
  68. *originally "Lavos’ Theme"
  69. "The Place We Knew (Orchestra Version)" (Reuben Kee, pixietricks) – 3:52
  70. *originally "To Far Away Times"
  71. *also available in an instrumental "Orchestra-only Version"
  72. "Epilogue" (Compyfox) – ?:??
These files, along with the movie script, movie outline and project trailer, are free and available for download at the project's homepage.

Credits

External links and references

Chrono Trigger
Crono | Marle | Lucca | Frog | Robo | Ayla | Magus
NPCs Belthasar | Cyrus | Dalton | Gaspar | Janus | Lavos | Masa and Mune | Melchior | Nu | Ozzie, Slash, and Flea | Queen Zeal | Schala
65,000,000 B.C. | 12000 B.C. | 600 A.D. | 1000 A.D. | 1999 A.D. | 2300 A.D. | ∞
Misc. Chrono Trigger plot | List of Chrono Trigger characters | Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version | Epoch | Kingdom of Zeal | Mammon Machine | Masamune |
Fan tributes The Chrono Trigger Mixtape, Vol. #1 | Chrono Symphonic

OverClocked ReMix Site Projects
Released: Relics of the Chozo | Kong in Concert | Hedgehog Heaven | Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation | Rise of the Star | The Dark Side of Phobos | Chrono Symphonic | Blood on the Asphalt Planned: Project Chaos | Summoning of Spirits | Milkyway Wishes | Around the World | Children of Erdrick

 

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