[9:46:40 PM] Zachary Loy: I'm about to do something really nerdy...
[9:47:06 PM] Daniel: Do an in depth analysis of Bach's pieces???
[9:47:14 PM] Zachary Loy: Wrong nerdy.
[9:47:19 PM] Daniel: lol
[9:47:35 PM] Zachary Loy: And that would take me a lifetime.
[9:48:24 PM] Daniel: So when does the dramatic pause end???
[9:48:40 PM] Daniel: Oh, I just rememered!
[9:48:47 PM] Daniel: Ruto asked me to interview you.
[9:48:54 PM] Daniel: Should I do it???
[9:49:09 PM] Zachary Loy: If you want.
[9:49:22 PM] Daniel: And if I ask boring and trite questions???
[9:49:36 PM] Zachary Loy: Then I'll give boring and trite answers.
[9:49:48 PM] Daniel: All right, sounds good to me!
[9:49:55 PM] Daniel: TIME TO MAKE A POST.
[9:50:43 PM] Daniel: Okay, let's start!
[9:50:52 PM] Daniel: So how are you?
[9:51:14 PM] Zachary Loy: Oh, now?
[9:51:28 PM] Zachary Loy: Hold on, let me get my interview shoes.
[9:51:42 PM] Daniel: Someone sounds prepared!
[9:52:06 PM] Daniel: Have you found your interview shoes yet???
[9:52:33 PM] Zachary Loy: Ok, let's do this thing, if so it can be called.
[9:52:47 PM] Daniel: So why do you like music so much?
[9:53:01 PM] Zachary Loy: Why does one like air?
[9:53:57 PM] Daniel: Because it's amazingly incredible rye or something.
[9:54:16 PM] Daniel: What's your favourite piece of music???
[9:54:35 PM] Zachary Loy: Oh, that's a tough one.
[9:54:51 PM] Daniel: thx, thats why i asked

[9:55:18 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, I can't give you an absolute favorite, but I can give you my current obsession.
[9:55:25 PM] Daniel: Good enough!
[9:55:32 PM] Daniel: You could name favourites too, if you would so like.
[9:55:42 PM] Zachary Loy: George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"
[9:56:20 PM] Zachary Loy: A runner-up would be Gustav Mahler's Symhpony No. 2 in C minor, "Ressurection"
[9:56:38 PM] Zachary Loy: and also Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor.
[9:56:49 PM] Daniel: So wherefore do you enjoy these pieces?
[9:57:18 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, Gershwin was my first love of music, the reason I got into classical in the first place.
[9:57:41 PM] Zachary Loy: The opera is his Masterpiece, at least in my eyes.
[9:58:49 PM] Zachary Loy: Mahler's Symphony, I see a greater view of what music can be. He opened my eyes to what is possible as a composer.
[10:00:02 PM] Zachary Loy: Dvorak's Cello Concerto is just a favorite of mine, not many people can do what he did for the cello.
[10:01:36 PM] Daniel: So is it oft that you listen to these pieces or do you tend to heed to them seldom as of late?
[10:02:51 PM | Edited 10:03:08 PM] Zachary Loy: I turn Gershwin pretty frequently in general (a favorite of mine during my commutes), the others just have my attention for the moment.
[10:03:41 PM] Daniel: That's seemly, verily.
[10:05:51 PM] Daniel: So when you assay your hand at your own compositions, do you eschew from affectation or embrace it, moreover utilising the comely nature of other works?
[10:07:31 PM] Zachary Loy: When I write, most of my music has a deep influence from a great pool of talent.
[10:08:21 PM] Zachary Loy: I look towards those giants, take what they offer to me, and bend it towards my own musical ideology.
[10:10:56 PM] Zachary Loy: Each work shows within itself a different picture of what I have learned. The influence is there, and it always will be; but I feel my own voice, my own style, still rings out above it.
[10:13:28 PM] Daniel: That's curious indeed, and very befitting of your proclivity of splendid composition making, indubitably.
[10:16:38 PM] Daniel: So, my fellow, surpassing overmuch the notion of, and by my troth, your sentiments, am obliged to through-and-through take heed in inquiring, for what bewitching and wondrous proposition do thineself make of, if I may apprise the inquiry, music? (This is my last use of confusing language, don't worry... maybe.)
[10:18:48 PM] Daniel: And you've been saved by a PM Question!!!
[10:19:08 PM] Daniel: JGuy49 asks "What does UGC stand for?"
[10:19:34 PM | Edited 10:19:44 PM] Zachary Loy: A-ha, a hold-over from my youth, in the time before music.
[10:20:03 PM] Daniel: Is that all you'll privy us too?

[10:20:42 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, at one point, I had the notion of design video games (nevermind that I barely understand Comp sci technobabble).
[10:21:26 PM] Zachary Loy: I, along with a few good friends, set out to designing a video game.
[10:22:27 PM] Zachary Loy: We never got past conceptualization, but we had a trio of villains in this game of our, branded under the insignia "UGC".
[10:23:37 PM] Zachary Loy: It was faux-latin/greek for generic evil, and I can't remember what it was. Eventually we parted ways, and the idea was never continued.
[10:24:05 PM] Daniel:

[10:24:32 PM] Zachary Loy: This was around the time I began getting on the internet, so I adopted the insignia for my own, using it in various forms, like you see before you.
[10:25:31 PM] Zachary Loy: Of course, I do have some friends who are studying game design, maybe if I can find my old journal, this won't be the last of it after all!
[10:25:45 PM | Edited 10:25:56 PM] Daniel: Maybe you could compose music in games!
[10:26:57 PM] Zachary Loy: That would be nice, and I plan on riding the coattails of these guys since they want to do the whole "Indie Game Studio" thing first.
[10:27:31 PM] Daniel: Sounds like you're almost in the business! :O
[10:28:21 PM] Daniel: KoolDudeNumber42 asks "Do you want to be a maestro when you grow up?"
[10:28:54 PM] Zachary Loy: Of course, but I see the title "Maestro" to mean three things:
[10:29:27 PM] Zachary Loy: Being a Performer, a Teacher, and Creator.
[10:29:57 PM] Zachary Loy: Because then you would be a true Master of the craft, in my view, anyway.
[10:30:22 PM] Daniel: So you want to be a Triple Maestro!!!
[10:30:40 PM] Zachary Loy: If you want to call it that, then sure.
[10:31:14 PM] Daniel: 69namK asks "How totes frivolosly frivolous is this frivolity?"
[10:31:32 PM] Zachary Loy: Totally totes.
[10:31:52 PM] Daniel:

[10:32:45 PM] Daniel: purpletulip.999...=1 asks "Who is your favorite classical composer, and what is your favorite piece/symphony that he/she wrote?"
[10:33:16 PM] Zachary Loy: Oh...this question.
[10:33:31 PM] Zachary Loy: I can give you three:
[10:34:19 PM] Zachary Loy: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
[10:34:39 PM] Zachary Loy: Franz Liszt - "Dante" Symphony
[10:34:55 PM] Zachary Loy: George Gershwin - "Porgy and Bess"
[10:37:30 PM] Daniel: Do you believe that in order to play a piece to its potential, it's necessary to play with emotion? As in, one can only play a sad song best when sad, for example?
[10:38:45 PM] Zachary Loy: Not necessarily, I believe that you just need to understand the emotion and where it comes from.
[10:40:24 PM | Edited 10:40:34 PM] Zachary Loy: Yes, I do believe that emotion can bring a certain fire to the performance, but I think the music itself should evoke that in the player, not the player in the music.
[10:40:43 PM] Daniel: Good, because I concur with the sentiment!
[10:41:19 PM] Daniel: So what genres of music take your fancy? We've certainly gotten classical down!
[10:42:05 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, I live classical, so I don't get exposed towards newer sounds. I usually just regress in the musical timeline.
[10:42:51 PM] Zachary Loy: I adore the Beatles, though. I grew up with their music and they have found a special influence in me.
[10:43:15 PM] Zachary Loy: And their respective solo careers.
[10:43:52 PM] Daniel: And what about things like Jazz and Ragtime?
[10:44:33 PM] Zachary Loy: Ragtime is a fun form I love to work with.
[10:45:00 PM] Zachary Loy: It's easily built upon, and almost anything can be played in Ragtime.
[10:46:09 PM] Zachary Loy: Jazz is a bit trickier, I prefer the early stuff, back when it was mostly Stride Piano and the early adopters of the style (Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, etc.)
[10:46:44 PM] Zachary Loy: Most of the more recent stuff is lost on me, but I just haven't developed an ear for it yet.
[10:47:55 PM] Zachary Loy: I usually follow this rule: If I hear it and like it, I want to learn more about it.
[10:48:19 PM] Daniel: Sounds like a good methodology!
[10:48:51 PM] Daniel: So let's leave music for a bit and ask some more juicy questions!!!
[10:48:59 PM] Zachary Loy: Oh boy.
[10:49:01 PM] Daniel: What's your favourite type of juice?
[10:49:29 PM] Zachary Loy: Orange.
[10:49:39 PM] Daniel: Good answer.
[10:51:52 PM] Daniel: So why do you take on such a dignified, somewhat pomp disposition on NSM? Is it a facade?!?
[10:54:02 PM] Zachary Loy: It's not a facade, I just take myself and what I do very seriously.
[10:54:47 PM | Edited 10:56:01 PM] Zachary Loy: I'll get down and be frivolous like anybody else, but it's business first.
[10:55:41 PM] Daniel: I see.
[10:55:58 PM] Daniel: Another PM Question!!!
[10:56:37 PM] Daniel: Mashi asks "So why did you join TWG originally and what motivated you to return?"
[10:57:01 PM] Zachary Loy: Same reason, boredom.
[10:57:38 PM] Zachary Loy: Here was this neat little game, and I had nothing else to do so I just joined.
[10:59:18 PM] Daniel: And what about the forum? How did you find it and why did you join? Do you listen to Nintendo music as well?
[11:00:15 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, I joined to spread my arrangements. I stumbled across this site when I first started arranging VG stuff, so I tried to get them on the site proper.
[11:01:56 PM] Zachary Loy: I do enjoy video game music, but I don't have a library or playlists on my iPod or anything like that. Whenever I want a tune, I usually just pull it from my head, much like anything else.
[11:03:53 PM] Daniel: Pssst.
[11:04:01 PM] Daniel: I've run out of questions, what do I ask you?
[11:04:14 PM] Zachary Loy: Why are you asking me?
[11:04:39 PM] Zachary Loy: I know all about me, what questions could I possibly have?
[11:04:57 PM | Edited 11:05:43 PM] Daniel: That sounds like a good question!
[11:05:36 PM] Daniel: What questions could you possibly have in life?
[11:06:16 PM] Zachary Loy: I try not to ask too many questions, it really muds things up in your day to day.
[11:07:22 PM] Daniel: More PM Questions!!!
[11:07:57 PM] Daniel: ZachaestroUGLoy asks "What question would you like to be asked for you to answer?"
[11:08:20 PM] Zachary Loy: That guy looks familiar.
[11:08:34 PM] Zachary Loy: Oh, I have an idea!
[11:10:21 PM] Daniel: And then, another PM Question zoomed by!!!
[11:10:45 PM] Daniel: Dictator of the World asked, "Whose job do you want to have?"
[11:11:14 PM] Zachary Loy: His.
[11:11:57 PM] Daniel: Hahahahaha.
[11:12:31 PM] Daniel: Dictator of the World Who Is Actually Female asked, "Know any supreme dictators?"
[11:13:17 PM] Zachary Loy: No, why, are you looking to start dating?
[11:13:39 PM] Daniel: I think she's taken, sadly for you.

[11:13:59 PM] Zachary Loy: So am I, by my Music.
[11:14:50 PM] Daniel: Ohhh, more PM Questions!
[11:15:06 PM] Daniel: MYSTERYMAN asks "What is your favourite word?"
[11:16:35 PM] Zachary Loy: Indubitably.
[11:17:17 PM] Daniel:

[11:17:29 PM] Daniel: MYSTERYMAN also asked "What is your least favourite word?"
[11:20:07 PM] Zachary Loy: Why. But in a way that means "why bother" or "why would you do that" as a means of discouragement.
[11:21:25 PM] Daniel: Another forum member asks "What turns you on and off?"
[11:22:32 PM] Zachary Loy: Spontaneity and uncreativity, respectively.
[11:25:09 PM] Daniel: Rattleboxmonster asks "What noise/sound do you love and hate?"
[11:26:32 PM] Zachary Loy: I love a low, deep, almost inauble earthly hum.
[11:28:13 PM] Zachary Loy: I hate sounds of quiting.
[11:29:07 PM] Daniel: Any particular reasons why?
[11:29:44 PM] Zachary Loy: The general negativity of it, unwillingness to meet a challenge.
[11:30:02 PM] Daniel: Ah, so fitting to your personality.
[11:30:27 PM] Daniel: khadowsirby asks "What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?"
[11:32:09 PM] Zachary Loy: Museum curator, or a librarian of antiqual literature and writings.
[11:33:26 PM] Daniel: sirbykhadow asks "What profession would you not like to do?"
[11:36:16 PM | Edited 11:36:28 PM] Zachary Loy: Electronic maintenance, I'd hate dealing with impatient people whose TV is broken.
[11:37:57 PM] Daniel: the_last_zeldagameoutoftimesequence asks "What is your favourite curse word."
[11:40:03 PM] Zachary Loy: F**k, typically the flying variety.
[11:40:15 PM] Daniel:

[11:40:58 PM] Daniel: MaestroUGC asks "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?"
[11:41:29 PM] Zachary Loy: Ya did good, pig, ya did good.
[11:41:41 PM] Daniel: Any flying variety???
[11:41:54 PM] Zachary Loy: Nope.
[11:42:26 PM] Daniel: :O
[11:43:36 PM] Daniel: Well, that's about all the questions I could scrounge up from NSMers.
[11:43:50 PM] Daniel: and/or ask MaestroUGC to ask.
[11:43:54 PM] Daniel: But they don't know that!!!
[11:44:07 PM] Daniel: so how did i do???
[11:44:39 PM] Zachary Loy: All right, but shouldn't we wrap it up with the "So what's next for you?" stuff?
[11:44:56 PM] Daniel: Sure.
[11:45:01 PM] Daniel: So what's next for you?
[11:46:16 PM] Zachary Loy: Well, I'm going to finish revising my virtuoso arrangements, and put out the last few new ones. Two are on their way soon!
[11:46:56 PM] Zachary Loy: I'm going to sit down and finish the NSM Community Orchestra Project during the winter, at least that's the plan.
[11:47:29 PM] Zachary Loy: And I'm going to be starting a new hobby that will see the light of day by winter as well!
[11:48:03 PM] Daniel: :O
[11:48:10 PM] Daniel: Will NSM see this new hobby?
[11:48:22 PM] Zachary Loy: Sure!
[11:48:25 PM] Daniel: Yaaaay.
[11:48:36 PM] Daniel: Can you tell me what the hobby is???
[11:49:28 PM] Zachary Loy: A good friend of mine, and I, will be venturing into that strange world of Let's Play.
[11:49:37 PM] Daniel: :O
[11:49:41 PM] Daniel: Yaaay.
[11:49:48 PM] Daniel: Will we be hearing your voice?
[11:50:13 PM] Zachary Loy: Yes, my rich, not baritone sounding at all, baritone voice.
[11:50:32 PM] Daniel: Yaaay.
[11:50:55 PM] Zachary Loy: Yaaay.
[11:51:38 PM] Daniel: Well, that's all NSM, folks... I thnk!
[11:51:51 PM] Daniel: Unless you would like to make a concluding statement, MaestroUGC?
[11:52:01 PM] Zachary Loy: Eat your vegetables, kids.
[11:52:23 PM] Zachary Loy: Then you can grow up big and strong and talented like me.