Genealogy Tree by Benjamin Edward Welkner

Me

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:08:47 UTC

Christopher Larkin

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:10:26 UTC

Christopher Larkin is a composer, most known by his work on the video game Hollow Knight. He has most influenced me and my passion for emotional and melodic music through his immersive soundtrack for Hollow Knight. As a game with a mysterious narrative structure, writing music for Hollow Knight includes lots of themes and light motifs (Christopher Larkin, 2017, 2:00)

David Radford

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:10:42 UTC

David Radford is the lead singer and member of the band The Gray Havens along with his wife Licia Radford. They’re a folk pop duo who write christians songs with vivid imagery inspired by writers like C.S. Lewis. His influence and Lewis-like writing has inspired by songwriting by opening my eyes to approach the gospel story from a new light (Pints with Jack, 2021, 19:15).

Nobuo Uematsu

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:11:21 UTC

Nobuo Uematsu is a Japanese composer, known for his legendary work on music of the Final Fantasy video game series. Nobuo helped introduce the idea of connecting different musical themes and melodies to characters and locations in a video game (Comeaux, 2021, p.5). His work greatly influenced the work of Christopher Larkin and other video game composers for his ideas of musical themes.

Claudio Monteverdi

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:12:02 UTC

Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer in the late renaissance era. He was a pioneer in the creation of large orchestral accompaniment. Through his work on the Orfeo opera, he was established as a composer of large accompaniment (Arnold, 2023). His work would be an influence on composers like Christopher Larkin, compelling them to use powerful orchestral accompaniment.

Andrew Norman

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:12:20 UTC

Andrew Norman is a modern composer who worked to connect the mediums of orchestra and video games. He placed the medium of the orchestra into the context of video games to provide insightful musical and social commentary (Jarema, p.1). This context of orchestra led other composers like Christopher Larkin into video game music.

Frank Sinatra

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:12:43 UTC

Frank Sinatra was a famous singer, singing in big band numbers in the 1940s and 1950s (Biography, 2021). He was influential in the life of David Radford through his music and singing style. He was often a family favorite when David Radford was growing up (Pints with Jack, 2021, 6:49).

C.S. Lewis

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:14:28 UTC

C.S. Lewis is an author, writing lots of christian apologetical works as well as a well known book series called the Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis held a strong belief that imagination was a great value to human life (Schakel, 2002, p.2). This belief poured over into the lives of many readers, including David Radford, who had been inspired by many of his writings. Radford even wrote an album inspired by Lewis’ book Surprised by Joy (Radford, 2021).

Andrew Peterson

benjaminwelkner1_2 — 2024-02-29 06:14:56 UTC

Andrew Peterson is a folk singer and songwriter. He is a leading figure in the christian folk genre and has influenced many artists David Radford. His own influence of Rich Mullens led him to become the well known songwriter he is today (Asbury Theological Seminary, 2023, 12:36) where he incorporates christian beliefs in a folk style song.