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Soundtrack: Creaks — A 'living' score that is born anew every time
For Amanita Design's Creaks, Joe Acheson wrote a 'living soundtrack' of more than a hundred pieces that branch generatively. Return to the same room and it never plays the same way twice, and when a solution is near an instrument quietly joins in to nudge you forward. In a mansion with no dialogue and no on-screen text, the music becomes your only companion. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through the lens of writing your own music.
Soundtrack: Antichamber — Music that grows a layer the deeper you go
The music Siddhartha Barnhoorn wrote for Antichamber is neither a loop nor silence. Thin layers crossfade and stack, never repeating the same combination twice, thickening as you push further in: a living ambient bed. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why this sound follows you through impossible spaces without ever coming undone, through a lens you can take home to your own composing.
Soundtrack: COCOON — Music that plays on without becoming wallpaper
The music Jakob Schmid wrote for COCOON is almost entirely synthesized, and most of it is generated in real time. It is neither a looped bed nor a vow of silence, but a third path. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why this music can run continuously without ever turning into 'wallpaper,' through a lens you can take home to your own composing.
