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most likely there was a directive to cut costs, and outsourcing the music was an easy task. sony also has the infrastructure to lay off the entire audio team if they decide to!

that central sound team is licking their lips and would shift to support bungie as a main client if needed. parasitic

someone should put a playlist together!

YouTube video by Christopher Tin - Topic Tin: Temen Oblak - "Dark Clouds"

LOL i recognize one of the first songs sampled/remixed, from christopher tin's song cycle www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbV6...

great album btw. but also even this would be so fucking cool as a menu theme

YouTube video by NirvashFan Inner Universe (full song)

the most on the nose reference is ghost in the shell right? why not just lean into it. it's so weird lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIVg...

plus when you think about the aesthetic references of grunge-y, cyberpunk apocalypse with graphic realism, you could get SO weird with that. music could literally sound like ANYTHING

it's a really good opportunity music to get really fucking weird

yeah plus it would give so much room for the rest of the audio palette to shine. having more weird, organic/acoustic textures in the music would help differentiate the game-y scifi sfx

the two are too similar rn imo

that was a giant rant but how blessed i feel to have ✌️'d the fuck out. that's a company that did not even have room for any of my potential and pushes people down.

im doing way better, making way more impact, and i have no doubt i'm gonna help w some fucking good music

sony exclusively hires external composers! it's their thing

that or like, having mike salvatori writing a really weird Fifth Element style aria.

cmon man. that'd be so fucking weird and strange and HOT. would you not dig that???

YouTube video by RamonPang - Topic A Vast Expanse

anyways if i were to decide what marathon music would sound like, it'd be closer to this. i've listened to this track so much over the years and consider it a cornerstone of the type of IDM i'd want in a game like Marathon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFj...

that's an investment that i don't think a lot of film composers will understand out of the game. a lot of game companies have no business hiring these rando big name composers if they're not going to put in the work

i was not impressed with anything i heard, im also a generational hater tho

well, a video game composer that understands that context can certainly write loops that way

i'm not saying VGM is this complicated thing and only certain people can do it. but it definitely requires coaching and time to get the best result and dynamics/structure

what's an alien world? well i dont fucking know but i think otherworldly, alien MUSIC should sound weird. unsettling. out of context.

and it should still hit all the things that an extraction shooter needs: the anticipation, the load in, the reward, the success/payoff

can you do that w loops?

music should take you on a journey beyond "cool vibes". all of the tracks i've heard are one tone, not very dynamic, generally all hit the same palette/emotion.

they sound like loops that came from someone jamming on their eurorack

marathon is supposed to be this ALIEN world

my opinion about hiring a non-video game music composer is that it needs to be worth it.

not just name recognition, but the composer needs to be doing something no one else is doing to justify paying a premium to have them work on a game.

did marathon do that? imo no

i have complicated feelings about Marathon's music, Bungie chose to outsource the game’s music instead of using the in-house team. that decision makes it hard for me to separate my feelings about the marathon OST when a good portion of the in-house music team got laid off (obviously related tbh)

i'm on the panel for the GDC music demo derby this year!! we'll be listening to submissions and giving some good feedback 💗

if you're interested in submitting and having your work heard, check it out: www.audiogang.org/demo-derby-s...

Show poster for POW depicting Zagreb’s and Melinoe from the Hades games

A show fitting for the gods! You'll see an announcement as we get closer with the full guest lineup that Darren has put together. If you're in the SF Bay Area, you don't want to miss this show! Poster by @stitchmind.art on IG #hades #hades2 #supergiantgames

Mics in Spaces: The Importance of Field and Foley Recording | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming This session will cover the techniques, creative philosophy, and methodology of Field Recording & Foley Recording in the context of sound design for games. It will touch on the justification of these ...

If you haven't heard, me and @thefoleyartist.bsky.social are going to be giving a talk at GDC about the importance of getting out and doing recording and how that improves your sound design in games! Please come check us out!

schedule.gdconf.com/session/mics...

ok im just addicted to XG and Lexie Liu. im so deep into kpop/jpop/cpop these days, we're back babyyyyyyy

mr bean!!

i am the ultimate hater and im ok hating on stuff

i would like to learn how 2 knit

things are going really well at work! i'm learning so much, i feel challenged constantly, and i'm definitely becoming a better game developer. i used to think i only would care about Wwise, and all the other stuff i didn't have anything to do with. oh boy i had no idea

i have a question, do any of u kno any games with siamese cats in them

this one is from Forspoken

i love my ninja creami lol

i THINK the moss is attaching but not sure

a really rare temp job opportunity to be music designer on the next Respawn title! it's local to LA but would be a great opportunity for someone looking for the experience

jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

eric made this, alla Gricia, guanciale, cherry tomato, paccherini

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