Massive Thank You + Q&A 2021

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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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-M9-6OSYMY

Видео Massive Thank You + Q&A 2021 канала Adrian von Ziegler