2026-08-15 · soundtrack
Soundtrack: Kine — engineering a jazz you cannot play wrong
For Kine, where three instrument-robots roll through a theatrical city dreaming of making it as a band, Chel Wong wrote show-tune-flavored jazz. But it is not music that follows a score. Every roll the player makes on the board sounds a note, and so that this improvisation can never go wrong, a safety net is stretched underneath - a key, a constant bassline, banks of recorded sound. Verifying the design of this 'jazz you cannot play wrong' against the composer's own Q&A and developer interviews, black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart.