#128 - Ben Kasparek Interview (DBZ, Editing, Bruce Faulconer, 9/11, Pikkon Theme Cell Saga etc.)

Ben Kasparek was the music editor on the English Dub of
Dragonball Z for the Android, Cell and Buu Sagas of DBZ and
worked closely with the composers of the show Mike Smith, Scott
Morgan and Julius Dobos


 


#dbz #dragonballz #brucefaulconer


 


TIMESTAMPS


00:00 - Intro


00:42 - How Ben Got Into DBZ/Getting Job At Faulconer Productions


04:08 - Ben Originally Wanted A Job At Funimation But Couldn’t
Find The Office


04:49 - Watching Mike Work/What Episode Ben Started First When
Editing


06:30 - Editing An Episode Took One Week/Editing Process


08:07 - DBZ Music Library/Mistake With Vegetas Theme


10:13 - Ben Favoured Hyperbolic Time Chamber Theme In Editing


11:25 - Limiting Of Pikkons Theme


12:56 - Ben Inspired Scott To Write The Arpeggiated Part Of
Pikkons Theme


14:56 - The Genius Of Mike Smith,Scott Morgan & Julius Dobos


15:59 - Japanese DBZ Music/Gohan Vs Cell Kamehameha Episodes Had
No Changes In Editing


18:19 - 16 Rips Off Cells Tail/Gohan & Icarus/Perfect Cell
Runs


19:25 - Such A Massive Library Existed By Buu Saga So Cell Saga
Music Was Hardly Used


20:32 - Having A Bigger Catalog Made It Easy To Edit


22:33 - How The Best Of DBZ Vol 1 Soundtrack Came About


25:12 - Ben Would Give The Musicians Requests And They Nailed It
Every Time


26:32 - Ben Was Late To Work On The Day Of 9/11


28:21 - Gohan Goes To School Episode Had To Be Edited In 24 Hours


29:32 - Hardcore DBZ Fan In Ben’s Class/New Generation Of DBZ
Fans


31:04 - Groove Of Work


32:05 - Bruce Faulconer’s Involvement In DBZ


34:24 - Cakemix Studio/Internets Effect On Bruce’s Studio


35:34 - Ben Not Knowing Gohan SSJ Is Goku’s SSJ Backwards


36:24 - Tying Gohan’s Music To Piccolo During The End Of Cell
Saga


37:32 - Character Moments


38:30 - Going From Fighting Music To Silly Music Being Jarring/


41:45 - Ambient Pieces Being Easy To Edit/Transitions


43:45 - The Final Atonement Episode


46:15 - Emotional Scenes


48:15 - Mike, Scott And Julius’s Different Styles Of Composing


51:10 - SSJ3 Theme


52:46 - Julius’s Work On Editing On Outside DBZ


55:00 - Bittersweet Feeling Of DBZ Ending