Set in Victorian London, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs follows an earlier game called Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which has been described by some as the scariest game ever made. Composer Jessica Curry discusses the music and concept for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
Gustavo Santaolalla won back-to-back Oscars in 2006 and 2007, for Brokeback Mountain and Babel, respectively. And those sparse film scores are indicative of Gustavo's use of space in music — silence can be one of the most effective sounds to use in a video game.
Composer Jack Wall wrote two quite different soundtracks for Lost Planet 3 — one takes the player through the battles and cinematics of Lost Planet, and one takes the main character back to Planet Earth.
The Washington Metro Gamer Symphony Orchestra is a brand new all-volunteer ensemble devoted entirely to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music.
Composer James Hannigan wrote music for Dead Space 3; an ominous score for a terrifying game.
British composer James Hannigan has scored just about every type of game imaginable, from the final four 'Harry Potter' games to terrifying 'Dead Space 3'. We talked about his newest project, a big online fantasy game called 'RuneScape 3'.
Even though it's been out for a month, the game 'DotA 2' is still a work in progress. Composer Tim Larkin started writing music for the game more than two years ago -- and he's not done yet.
If you needed to write music that sounded Russian, where would you start? Composer Cris Velasco talks Company of Heroes 2 on Top Score from Classical MPR.
