Merregnon is a series of works combining orchestral music and fantasy fiction. Since 2000, they have been released both as albums and presented as live concerts. The third part is Merregnon: Land of Silence, which premiered in 2021 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and was released as a concert film, followed by worldwide performances the year after. All projects were created, directed and produced by Merregnon Studios founder Thomas Böcker. Merregnon productions have drawn in numerous musical collaborators known for their work in video games, such as Yoko Shimomura, Chris Hülsbeck, and Yuzo Koshiro. Merregnon: Land of Silence Merregnon: Land of Silence features original music by Yoko Shimomura and a story by children's author Frauke Angel. For Shimomura, it is the first concert work of her career. The symphonic fairy tale in arrangements by Yasunori Nishiki and Jonne Valtonen was created to introduce families and younger audiences to orchestral music in the tradition of Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals and Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Lightly animated illustrations of characters and plot points accompany the music and narration. Conducted by Andreas Hanson, the work was first performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and filmed at the Stockholm Concert Hall in June 2021. In September of the same year, the video was made available free-to-view on the orchestra's website. Since 2022, performances take place worldwide, with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. While Merregnon: Land of Silence has an educational background, Böcker is particularly concerned with the entertainment aspect, one reason why the project draws on the aesthetics of video games and anime to appeal to a modern audience. Shimomura believes that those efforts are helping to "tackle some of the misconceptions around classical music." In Böcker's view, the story is a symphonic fairy tale of "courage, perseverance, solidarity and above all, freedom." The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has made available a further six videos in which Shimomura talks about her ideas and her approach to working on the respective themes for the characters in the story. Reception Merregnon: Land of Silence was described as a "symphonic anime" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Deutschlandfunk spoke with Böcker in a radio feature entitled "Music education with a video game composer", and Klassik Radio elaborated on the fact that Merregnon: Land of Silence