Merregnon Studios
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| Concert and orchestra recording production. | |
| Industry | Video games, orchestra, recording |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Dresden, Germany 51°03′07″N 13°44′28″E / 51.0520515°N 13.7410747°E |
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Key people
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Thomas Böcker |
| Website | www |
Merregnon Studios is a company based in Dresden, Germany, founded by Thomas Böcker. It produces concerts of orchestral video game music, under the name Symphonic Game Music Concerts and other variants of the Symphonic brand, and markets recordings and albums of the concerts.
Merregnon Studios was founded in 1999 by Thomas Böcker. Having spent time in Japan and as a lifelong fan of video game music, Böcker sought to bring orchestral video game music concerts to Europe and produce storytelling arrangements and scores based on video game material. The first example of his vision came with the first volume in the Merregnon CD series in 2000.
Since 1999, Böcker had been working in the games industry as producer, director and advisor for a variety of soundtracks. His role as executive producer and project director of the Merregnon albums provided him with many contacts to conductors, orchestras and composers from around the world, and he began to develop the concept of a new series of video game music orchestra concerts, Inspired by game concerts from Japan, the Orchestral Game Music Concerts from the 1990s in particular, he produced the first concert event of its kind outside Japan. To attract as many people from the target audience as possible, the concert was to be scheduled alongside an established event connected to the game industry. He proposed his idea to the Leipzig Trade Fair in 2002, which agreed to hold what was called the Symphonic Game Music Concert during the GC: Games Convention, the first trade fair for video games in Europe.
The Symphonic Game Music Concerts were successful, and marked the beginning of one of the longest running video game concert series of all time.Jonne Valtonen joined as an exclusive contract artist for the studio through his work on the concert series.
After the cancellation of Symphonic Game Music Concert at the Leipzig Trade Fair, the team began to produce a new series of concerts titled Symphonic in association with the WDR in Cologne, a yearly event with themed video game orchestra concerts built on classical music values blended with modern compositions. Since the first event in 2008, Symphonic Shades, the Symphonic series has gone on to spawn four additional events. All of Merregnon Studios's productions have been officially sanctioned and supported by the game developer and composers featured in the event, including Square Enix, Nintendo, and Nobuo Uematsu.
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