Final Fantasy VIII Tribute - Voices and Violin

Original compositions by Nobuo Uematsu.

Here's my own arrangement of two themes from Final Fantasy VIII for the original Playstation, "Blue Fields" aka the world map theme and "Silence & Motion" which can be heard at Esthar City.

Arrangement, performance, recording, mixing and mastering by Diwa de Leon.

Video shooting, editing, rendering by Diwa de Leon

I'm a professional composer, arranger and a bit of a violinist, and cosplaying is one of my hobbies as well as playing video game music just for fun.

Sheet music is NOT available as this is my own arrangement and it's not available anywhere else. I don't notate my works unless it is a necessity. Most of the time I record my works directly upon conceptualization.

Thanks for watching!

Diwa "Master Diwa" de Leon
aka The Videogame Violinist


Official website: http://www.diwadeleon.com
Blog: http://blog.diwadeleon.com
Imeem: http://www.imeem.com/masterdiwa/
Band website: http://www.makiling.ph

MINI F.A.Q.

Why is the video lower in resolution compared to your earlier videos?
-My camera broke, so I had to use my Macbook's built-in camera.

What took you so long?
-When my camera broke, I kinda lost the momentum to make more videos. I'm also very busy with projects. Took me quite a while to push myself to make a new one again.

So will you be making more videos soon?
-Sure, as long as time permits.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blue fields
• silence and motion
• final fantasy 8
• viii
• eight
• diwa de leon
• nobuo uematsu
• videogame violinist
• game music
• composer
• arranger
• filipino

[vashcat]

Have you considered making a CD?

[mangdiws]

@vashcat I have 3 CDs with my band, and my 1st solo EP will be out locally next week, it contains original hegalong songs. I cannot release a CD of video game music since I don't own the copyrights to the songs.

[DecenniuM]

5/5! A genius a work!

[aurorefranck]

excellent !

[GyxXorify]

wow..

ang galing

nc remaking the world map and the esthar theme ^^

[linkpwnsevery1]

@seifer93 the same way u hating on 9 is the same way someone else hating on 8 <.< but i think was cause of the "draw" function and the whole junction was so annoying, it is my least favorite and 7 and 2.

[Gothchick657]

when they (finally) make a re-make of the game they should have you do the music 8D

[msadids]

hahaha geile sache man , great work

[Vaynard338]

Amazing stuff. 

[seifer93]

Awesome!

BTW, it's about time someone does a FF8 cover. It's my favorite Final Fantasy, and I don't know why it gets such a bad rap. I mean, I hated 9 way more, and 7 is overrated. But the worse one by far is 13...I mean an auto battle function? REALLY? Good job making a game in to an interactive movie...

[YourMrGuardianAngel]

i like how in the boxes, his face gets progressively more unhappy at the beginning

[xir0666]

can't stop, won't stop, uh uh, uh uh

[demonesandra]

manifique rien na dire

[RoldaoKanon]

Ours you are a genius when doing feat so, because it is very difficult. Perfect. . .