User:Ebuch


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Biography
Eric Buchholz, also known as ebuch, is a college student studying music theory/composition at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His online contributions include NintendoFreaks (2006-2008), World Zelda Music Radio (2008-2011), Zelda Reorchestrated (2008-present), and Radio Hyrule (2011-present). As the current owner and director of Zelda Reorchestrated and Radio Hyrule, he claims to be one of the biggest Zelda music fans in the world.

Early Beginnings (2006-2007)
When Buchholz first started exploring the internet, he typically stuck around his friend's website NintendoFreaks, a Nintendo fansite devoted to posting news and holding regional gaming events and tournaments. After proving to be one of the most active users on the site, he eventually started contributing to the site by writing news posts. This is when he started learning how to build websites. It was also during this time that he took a stronger interest in Legend of Zelda, as well as music arrangement and composition. When he was 15, he completed an arrangement of various Zelda songs which was performed by his high school's concert band. It would later become a tradition to arrange video game songs for his school band to play.

On the Air (2008-present)
In late December of 2007, Buchholz met FireGS, founder of the Zelda Reorchestrated project. It wasn't until after this that Buchholz learned of the deceased World Zelda Music Radio (WZMR) project, an online radio station airing Zelda music which had died out in 2005. After learning how to create and manage a station through forming the Reorchestrator's Radio Network, he resurrected WZMR in 2008 and created a new website under the old name. WZMR's popularity grew rapidly as time grew on, but the site's server was hit with a nasty hack-attack in mid-2010, making it unable to be browsed. This put the site, not the radio, out of commission for the next six months, as Buchholz was busy putting time into other projects being worked on simultaneously. The site reopened early 2011, and was well received by many new visitors. In August 2011, WZMR's name was changed to Radio Hyrule. The site is being actively worked on, as new features are always being added.

Zelda Reorchestrated (2008-present)
At about the same time as the resurrection of WZMR, Buchholz was inducted into the ZREO Team and started making MIDI contributions. After several weeks of consistent effort, he was promoted to Lead Transcriber on the site and began creating a majority of the new songs being released on the site. Involvement with the Twilight Symphony project eventually put a halt on new songs to be added regularly to the ZREO library. Buchholz eventually went on to become the new Project Director in Summer 2011.