This makes me happy. For 3.5 years I got to see Giant Squid put *everything* into making this game. They really believed in it and dug deep to try and make something remarkable. My goal with the music was to rise to their level, and hopefully do justice to their artistry.
I'm beyond honored to see STRAY GODS nominated at the Grammys, above all because I get to share this with my wonderful friends from
@TripodActual
and
@actualmontaigne
. This was a quintessential team effort. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The latest Game Maker's Notebook is live and this was a very inspiring chat indeed. This time I had the distinct joy of discussion with
@santaolallaok
, esteemed composer of THE LAST OF US, parts 1 and 2. Huge thanks to
@Neil_Druckmann
for connecting us!
Play as a being of unbalanced energy, on its journey towards awakening in Strayed Lights, an atmospheric action-adventure game with fast-paced, rewarding combat scored by Austin Wintory.
Available now on
#NintendoSwitch
:
Here's a look at the first big
#StrayGods
song, in which we meet
@kharypayton
as Pan. This whole game was nuts. "How would an interactive musical work?" turned out to be a daunting question
Tonight I heard an 88 year old man tell a crowd of us that he thought the art of film scoring was still in its adolescence and that he hoped to be around another 50 years to see how it evolves.
Cheers to that Maestro.
Today, 89 years ago, a young kid with some considerable musical talent, eventually playing piano for some prominent composers before being given a chance of his own. Not too long after he used 2 notes to portray a shark and 7 for the Force and humanity hasn't been the same since
The album "Traveler - A Journey Symphony" can be found here!
or all the online retailers (Spotify, etc). Likewise my Youtube channel has lots of content coming :)
It remains an incredible privilege to continue my now decade+ collaboration with
@matt_nava
and
@GiantSquidology
. This game is something special.
Working with Matt and this fabulous team genuinely makes me a better musician and artist
Giant Squid is excited to present our new game: Sword of the Sea.
Check out the announce trailer and join our Discord for development updates!
Discord:
#indiegame
#PS5
#adventure
📺
Good LORD, the new album is literally at
#1
on all of Bandcamp!!! Never thought I'd see that...
Thank you again to all who've checked out the album and helped push it there! 😭
Goddamn, TLOU ep5 did not hold back across any dimension. Each week I continue to be astounded at the nuance and love that's gone into it, and the savvy ways it's departed from / expanded on the source. Just excellent stuff
As someone who spends most of his time writing music meant to enhance the experience of a game, film, TV show or whatnot, it's utterly astounding that the music has such life outside. THANK YOU to everyone for listening ♡
And yes I've been assured JOURNEY will be back!
@rclark98
@jakelyonsmusic
I'd add that writing game music (as I do) is a way to independently reach potentially millions of people with your music. Food for thought....
It is a rare breed of composer / person who gets nominated for an award and publicly points to a fellow nominee over themselves.
Immensely gracious
@bearmccreary
. I'm honored by the shoutout and grateful for our friendship.
Thrilled & honored to announce having scored
@LEGOFortnite
! What a privilege to work on a canvas as grand and creative as this one!
Big love to my partners in crime at Epic, & musical cohort Chuck Myers + Phil Boucher for scoring the announce trailer & subtly quoting my theme!
It blows my mind that ANDOR exists. It's pure atmosphere, methodical pacing, cold realistic depiction of authoritarianism, believable characters...
It's so wildly different from the rest of Disney era SW. I can't remember the last time I looked forward to new episodes this much
Today's nomination of Joe Hisaishi at the Golden Globes marks his FIRST EVER western award nomination. No prior Globes, and *never* nominated for an Oscar or Grammy.
Better late than never I suppose, but good lord. The very definition of "overdue"
10 years ago today exactly I was at
@SonySantaMonica
monitoring the orchestral recordings for Journey, which was due to come out a few months later. The whole time I kept thinking "boy I hope people like this game..."
It really didn't feel even remotely assured
FINALLY!! Announcing my Kickstarter for A LIGHT IN THE VOID. I can't overstate how personal and ambitious this project is. Years in the making, a fusion of science + music, live on-stage, broadcast to the world.
Please consider backing, sharing, etc🕯️
A secret I've held for like 4 years... SO HAPPY to see
@JacksFlavour
+
@hollyearl_
just announce our magnificent game ERICA @
#gamescom2019
with
@geoffkeighley
!
Very proud of this one. Film/game hybrid beyond any prior ambitions...
Trailer here
Performing this live with
@LauraBaileyVO
and Ashley Johnson was truly a career highlight. Pure bliss. It was an absolute joy to recreate as a studio single as we barrel towards
#StrayGods
' release!
Game Informer can exclusively reveal "Adrift," a full track from Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical featuring Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson. Listen here:
FYI to all streamers, there should be NO issues with DMCA, ContentID etc and if there is PLEASE TAG ME. I've been kicking over every rock behind the scenes to preemptively make sure there are no issues, and fingers crossed, but lemme know ASAP otherwise so we can address !
Hey
@summerfallgames
- wanted to say that Stray Gods looks super neat! I just wanted to check if the game is safe to stream on Twitch, being so musically based?
1.
@Ubisoft
proved to be the most magnificent collaborators
2. The performances of
@VictoriaAtkin
+
@PaulRogerAmos
were a joy to work with
3. The songwriting partnership with
@TripodActual
was one of the most personally meaningful of my life
Hey everyone guess what?? JOURNEY is back on Spotify!! Thanks to everyone who's reached out over the last few months to check on it; I'm grateful that so many still keep it in regular rotation. ENJOY! <3
7 days into the release of Traveler & it's somehow, bafflingly, STILL
#1
album on Bandcamp. I've never had something get this sort of reception. 💖 to all!!
Couple other things! 1) Yes I will make vinyls; 2) Yes I will release sheet music score book 3) Yes coming to Apple Music
Seeing John Williams at the bowl is *always* humbling, motivating and moving-beyond-words. I get teary-eyed every few seconds. It feels like witnessing history every time.
But last night, celebrating his 90th (while the bowl itself celebrates 100!) was beyond special
Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu doesn't 'have the physical and mental strength' to create full game soundtracks anymore: 'I'd rather use the time I have left to work on other projects I love'.
@garethcoker
@joinhitpiece
This almost seems like satire. I mean ... how could anyone be this absent-mindedly stupid and try to represent it like it's pro-artist when (as far as I can tell) not a single artist consented to their work being made available here?
I should clearly be offering conducting lessons
PS again huge thank you to everyone for the support. The Traveler album is STILL
#1
on Bandcamp. So deeply grateful ♡
These JOURNEY updates have me fondly looking back at those early days starting on the game, exactly 10 years ago. I found my old sketch where I'd jotted down an idea for the theme (alongside ideas for a film I was doing at the time). Sigh, memories ❤️
#Grateful
It's my birthday! For this whole weekend, 100% of my Bandcamp albums are free or Pay What You Want. If you pay, all the money goes to charity (
@ETMLosAngeles
@innocence
)
Thank you ALL for the support and generousity, today and all other days ♡
Today JOURNEY comes out on PC, thanks to
@A_i
. It brings so much to mind, but on reflection the thing I always come back is the amazing team I was so lucky to work with at both Sony and TGC. Here's the last team shot before we wrapped, in 2011.
#EternallyGrateful
Utterly shocked to hear that Chadwick Boseman has died. What charisma he had. And astonishing to read that he'd been fighting this since 2016, through *all* of those MCU productions? What a beast. A true warrior worthy of the character he portrayed.
A new
#IndianaJones
adventure begins July 29, 2022. Phoebe Waller-Bridge joins the cast alongside Harrison Ford in the fifth installment of the iconic franchise. The inimitable John Williams will also return to score the film.
Few things would make happier than seeing
@Borislav_Slavov
get the love he's deserved for years and years and years. Here's us 11 years ago in Spain; I've been his fan ever since :)
8 years ago today this remarkable group and
@SonySantaMonica
(plus me, by some miracle) shipped JOURNEY and permanently changed my life.
I will never be the same.
I am OVERJOYED to finally officially announce my collaboration w/
@ColdIronStudios
on the Xeno acid-drenched squad shooter ALIENS FIRETEAM ELITE (
@AliensFireteamE
)! Few franchises are more thrilling and intimidating as this one.
Here's a taste :)
This is SUCH a huge point. Most of my heroes didn't hit their stride until late 30s or well into 40s.
Ennio Morricone: scored GOOD BAD UGLY at 39. Same age as Goldsmith / PLANET OF THE APES
Williams: scored STAR WARS at 45.
Elfman: BATMAN at 36, atypically young!
Etc etc etc
Thanks to
@SonySantaMonica
+
@PlayStation
for making JOURNEY free, I've been getting a ton more tweets lately abt the game / music. 1st, huge love and thank you to all!
2nd, for those unaware the entire OST is on my YT channel w/ text commentary :)
We are so excited to announce Summerfall Studios' first game, CHORUS: AN ADVENTURE MUSICAL, in collaboration with Austin Wintory (
@awintory
) and Troy Baker (
@TroyBakerVA
)... starring Laura Bailey (
@LauraBaileyVO
)!
Help us out and support Chorus on !
Holy crap, this review by
@SkillUpYT
REALLY understood all of
@GiantSquidology
's aspirations with THE PATHLESS. So immensely happy about this. And very grateful for the shoutouts in here too <3
Dear internet, I finally have one of those cliche crazy conductor photos, and it's ripe for some photoshop. Please have insane fun with this.
(Taken while conducting TOOTH AND TAIL at the recent
@GamemusicF
)
We are very happy to announce that Austin Wintory, the composer of Assassin's Creed Syndicate and also one of the best composers in the video game industry, will be present in Paris for the world premiere of Assassin's Creed Symphonic Adventure!
🎟️
SOoooooo I promised a vinyl of the Journey Traveler Symphony. The pre-order page is live here!!
I'm using
@Bandcamp
's vinyl service, which is very exciting as it means we'll scale the order to the demand. So please take a look and consider it ASAP :)
The London Symphony Orchestra. There's no bucket list item for a composer beyond leading this superhuman group of musicians.
"Grateful" doesn't even scratch the surface.
FOR YOUR GRAMMY CONSIDERATION: Best Orchestral Performance
#GRAMMYs
Wow a glance at the metrics today I see
#StrayGods
has already topped a million plays on Spotify! I'm astonished at the adoption of it. Thank you so very much to everyone who's checked it out and helped spread the word on our little experiment <3
Hearing
@awintory
unpack the insanely complex music system for Stray Gods was maybe peak GDC for me 🤯
It really feels that for each game Austin works on he pushes the boundaries for what’s possible to do with interactive music and it’s maddening inspirational
#gameaudiogdc