Corridors Of Time — The Sound of the Machines

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Yasunori Mitsuda · 1995

Yasunori Mitsuda was twenty-two, working as a sound-effects engineer at Square, and he told his boss Hironobu Sakaguchi he would quit unless he was allowed to…

The piece was composed for the Kingdom of Zeal, a floating paradise condemned to destruction — a civilization that reached too high and would fall for it. The…

What makes 'Corridors of Time' endure is not the notes themselves but the weight they carry. You hear the floating feeling — the suspended chords, the mode…

Think about what it cost to write this piece. Mitsuda was hospitalized, his data was gone, his body was failing, and he kept going.

Why does the music of a floating kingdom condemned to fall — written from a hospital bed by a composer who'd lost two hundred songs and nearly destroyed his health — sound not like ruin, but like the most beautiful thing you can never quite reach?