Channel: Adrian von Ziegler

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Description: Timestamps: Thank you all so much!! 0:00 – Thank You message 4:13 – If you weren't a musician, what would you have liked to become? 5:51 – Favourite culture and favourite mythical creature? 8:18 – More music like Darkness Eternal album? 9:22 – What inspired you to make your Celtic albums? 10:07 – Which game would you like to compose for the most? 11:03 – More songs like "Blackened Soul" and "Dark Overture"? 11:47 – Any upcoming Middle Eastern music? 13:34 – On a scale from 1 to 10, how important is nature to you as an inspiration? 14:30 – If you could, what country would you travel to, and specifically where inside the country? 15:35 – What inspired you to make "The Sealed Kingdom"? 16:57 – Do ideas for new music come from thinking about it for hours/days/weeks or do they pop in out of nowhere? 18:13 – If you could time travel where would you go? 19:28 – Do any of your albums have a story behind them? 20:45 – How do you produce your music? 21:45 – Favourite bands/musicians? 22:42 – How do you decide on your song titles? 24:24 – How is the process of creating a new language? 25:36 – What were the biggest challenges for you on your way to becoming a full-time composer and how did you overcome them? 27:47 – Would you like to compose music for meditation? 28:33 – Do you like Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft? 29:09 – How did you meet your wife? 31:30 – What is your zodiac sign? 31:50 – Celtic/Irish or Nordic/Slavic music for the rest of your life, which would you choose? 33:00 – Do you feel better since you became able to make music full-time and live from it? 34:53 – What is the story behind "Enlighten my Soul"? 36:23 – Will you make something that could aid in learning your self-made language? 37:40 – How do you deal with procrastination or writer's block? 39:29 – Which element/instrument do you start with in a new song? 40:48 – Do you believe in soul mates? Do you think love is stronger than death? 42:19 – Would you find it sad if you lived forever? 43:29 – Score from a movie that you love and that inspires you? 43:59 – How are you? 44:40 – How many instruments do you have/how many can you play? 45:37 – How was your life growing up? 47:29 – Which fantasy creature would you like to be the most? 48:10 – How do you feel as someone with depression that your music helps others with their depression and other struggles? 49:11 – Do you ever listen to your own music once it's finished? 50:03 – How many hours a day do you spend writing your books? 50:58 – Why is it important for composers to express themselves through music? 52:09 – Which of the Valar do you worship the most? 52:45 – What is the solution to the phenomenon of creating something that turns out to already exist in some similar form somewhere else? 54:30 – Where do you see yourself in 3 years? 55:30 – Hardest part about creating a fantasy language? 57:10 – History or mythology? Why? 57:40 – Favourite part in the Silmarillion? 59:13 – Have you finished your novel? 1:00:19 – What is your writing process? 1:01:17 – What genres of music do you wish to explore in the future? 1:02:41 – Do you create your music from a concept or does the concept come into being while you create the song? 1:03:42 – Biggest musical influences? 1:05:21 – Does any of your music reflect the coping with depression and your love for your significant other? 1:06:33 – How do you see fairies in your mind when you make songs about them? 1:09:10 – Do you like alcohol, and if so what type? 1:09:50 – What's something we don't know about you? 1:10:49 – What do friends and family think of your job? 1:12:23 – How long does it take to research historical music before you create your own? 1:15:13 – Would you have liked to live in Tolkien's world? 1:16:03 – What are your hobbies? 1:17:46 – Is making music akin to telling a story? 1:18:31 – Hardest song you've ever done? 1:21:11 – Do you like Vangelis Papathanasiou? 1:21:34 – Favourite cartoon character and why? 1:22:53 – Favourite hero and why? 1:24:14 – What is more important, mercy or justice? 1:25:14 – Do random past events torment you sometimes? 1:26:39 – Which do you prefer, the sea or mountains/forests? 1:27:52 – What studies regarding music did you do? 1:28:22 – Who were your crushes? 1:29:01 – 3 things that help you relieve stress? 1:30:11 – Questions you are sick and tired of hearing? 1:31:17 – Can you tell us a song that you have your own imaginative story for, like a scene from a movie that plays in your head when you hear it? 1:33:03 – Favourite scale/key to compose in and why? 1:34:53 – Have you read Hindu or Aztec mythology? 1:36:07 – Could you tell us were you are with the Celtic story arc? 1:38:27 – Hopes for the future? How is Carina doing? 1:40:16 – Will you make more songs like "Aetas Romana", but also for other cultures? 1:41:48 – Do you have an Instagram account? 1:42:44 – Will there be future songs with lyrics? The song in the background is my 1-hour harp piece: youtube.com/watch?v=2-M9-6OSYMY