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Soundtrack: Vessel — Water music that assembles itself as you solve
The music of Strange Loop Games' liquid puzzler Vessel is ten tracks Jon Hopkins had already released, taken apart and reassembled in real time by Leonard J. Paul's engine. The further you push into a puzzle, the more the smouldering background gathers drums and bass, until the full track plays the instant you solve it. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why the reward can be the completion of a piece rather than a victory jingle - from the angle of someone who writes music.
Soundtrack: The Pedestrian — a jazzy gait walking a city of signs
The music Logan Hayes wrote for The Pedestrian is a single garment stitched from jazz, ambient and Eastern-European melody over a backbone of piano and orchestra. Behind the puzzle of rearranging signage panels to connect doorways, it keeps reshaping without ever cutting out, driven by FMOD. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart this music as a companion that never falls silent, through a lens you can carry back to your own writing.
