{"id":838,"date":"2025-08-04T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:38:13","slug":"midgar-mysteries-the-missing-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/midgar-mysteries-the-missing-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Midgar Mysteries \u2013 The Missing Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M\u00e9tafantaisie polar de Patrick Rainville sur les artisans de musique vid\u00e9oludique<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/08\/MidgarMysteries.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/08\/MidgarMysteries.jpg 736w, https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/08\/MidgarMysteries-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick Rainville. Voil\u00e0 un homme qui doit prendre plaisir \u00e0 surprendre. Sa derni\u00e8re r\u00e9alisation, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fposts%2Fmidgar-mysteries-134374760%3Futm_campaign%3Dpatron_engagement%26utm_source%3Dpost_link%26post_id%3D134374760%26token%3DeyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTI6ZGQ3YmYyYzMtMGE4OC00NTBlLTkyZDYtZGZjZjc0MWIxZjRjIiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTM0Mzc0NzYwLCJwYXRyb25faWQiOjE0ODMwMzAxN30.p81vv23KyxKXr_PNPW5gf_iph2HWTJWGvV7bb1Pu2a4%26utm_id%3D79787293-f8ab-45ed-8dfa-82a51ed464f9%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C209219561da64174699008ddc60c553a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638884478441620498%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8WTPTUAjh%2FM4X1qyDMnt1HnF1du9v6%2BkukdB865ZV0Y%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Midgar Mysteries \u2013 The Missing Composer<\/a>, <\/em>qu\u2019il avoue \u00eatre un peu \u00ab\u00a0meta meta\u00a0\u00bb, reprend les codes du film noir dans une recherche du compositeur du th\u00e8me musical de Glenn Lodbrok, un personnage du jeu <em>Final Fantasy VII. <\/em>La s\u00e9rie de cinq mini-\u00e9pisodes de 73 minutes consiste en une enqu\u00eate aupr\u00e8s d\u2019une douzaine de compositeurs japonais ayant contribu\u00e9 au jeu. Qui se cache derri\u00e8re qui dans cette recherche d&rsquo;un compositeur d&rsquo;un th\u00e8me \u00ab\u00a0plein de bravade, d\u2019\u00e9gos d\u00e9mesur\u00e9s et de riffs de guitare encore plus puissants\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le premier \u00e9pisode de <em>Midgar Mysteries<\/em> est apparu sans pr\u00e9avis \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019\u00e9pisode 16 de <em>Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Music<\/em> <em>Analysis, <\/em>une s\u00e9rie de vid\u00e9os sur YouTube. C\u2019est un petit peu pointu pour moi qui n\u2019ai jamais jou\u00e9 \u00e0 ces jeux, bien qu\u2019il me fasse regretter de ne pas avoir pers\u00e9v\u00e9r\u00e9, tellement l\u2019univers vid\u00e9oludique que j\u2019y d\u00e9couvre m\u2019enchante. Le sujet de l\u2019enqu\u00eate est des plus \u00e9sot\u00e9riques, le compositeur du th\u00e8me d\u2019un personnage virtuel, les seuls indices \u00e9tant l\u2019oreille de l\u2019enqu\u00eateur RK et les longs filons de cr\u00e9dits des fins de partie. Le r\u00e9sultat est un r\u00e9cit qui avance assez rapidement avec des p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties inattendues, une confrontation ludique des arguments et un d\u00e9nouement pour le moins surprenant. Quant au compositeur recherch\u00e9, les nippophones le sauront en primeur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je trouve \u00e7a pas mal cin\u00e9sourcier de la part de Patrick Rainville de faire ce qu\u2019il a fait, inventer une histoire avec des images venues d\u2019ailleurs et tout faire lui-m\u00eame avec les moyens de bord. Le public qui s\u2019int\u00e9resse aux \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9tails\u00a0\u00bb des artisans de la musique de jeu vid\u00e9o est certes peu nombreux pour le moment, 4500+ abonn\u00e9s sur YouTube, 1000+ sur billibilli (un important r\u00e9seau d\u2019anime, de bd et de jeux du sud-est asiatique), mais c\u2019est le public de demain. Les orchestres symphoniques y croient et proposent d\u00e9j\u00e0 des concerts de musique de Yoko Shimomura, de Shoji Mejuro ou de Nobuo Uematsu. La lente progression du nombre des abonn\u00e9s et des m\u00e9c\u00e8nes Patreon de Patrick Rainville Music Analysis (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/PatrickRainvilleMusicAnalysis\/posts\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/PatrickRainvilleMusicAnalysis\/posts<\/a>) sont aussi prometteurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019\u00e9pisode 21 de l\u2019analyse de la musique de <em>Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QUgIltYq5wM) <\/em>qui en comptera une soixantaine de l\u2019avis de son cr\u00e9ateur, doit para\u00eetre \u00e0 la fin de l&rsquo;\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9tafantaisie polar de Patrick Rainville sur les artisans de musique vid\u00e9oludique Patrick Rainville. Voil\u00e0 un homme qui doit prendre plaisir \u00e0 surprendre. Sa derni\u00e8re r\u00e9alisation, Midgar Mysteries \u2013 The Missing Composer, qu\u2019il avoue \u00eatre un peu \u00ab\u00a0meta meta\u00a0\u00bb, reprend les codes du film noir dans une recherche du compositeur du th\u00e8me musical de Glenn Lodbrok, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1],"tags":[],"taxon-du-petit-parc":[46,50],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinesources-10","category-non-classe","taxon-du-petit-parc-arts","taxon-du-petit-parc-famille"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"taxon-du-petit-parc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepetitparc.ca\/gilbert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxon-du-petit-parc?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}