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Soundtrack: Botany Manor — Music that keeps no clock
In Botany Manor you coax long-forgotten plants back into bloom inside a retired botanist's estate. Thomas Williams' score is small-ensemble chamber music built around close-recorded violin and harp, and each forgotten plant carries its own theme. Why does this unhurried music sit so well against a puzzle with no timer and no failure? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through a lens you can carry back to your own composing.
Soundtrack: Heaven's Vault — a small chord waiting for every moment of discovery
In inkle's narrative adventure, archaeologist Aliya and her robot companion Six sail the rivers of a nebula in search of a missing scholar — and at its core sits a puzzle of deciphering an ancient script. Laurence Chapman scored it, and beneath the intimacy of a string quartet he hid some twenty short pieces written only for 'moments of discovery.' How the deciphering puzzle meshes with those small chords — black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart.
