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Soundtrack: Chants of Sennaar — Learning a people's sound before learning their words
The music Thomas Brunet wrote for Chants of Sennaar is a small chamber ensemble woven from live instruments. The peoples living on each floor of the tower cannot understand one another's words. But the sound gets through. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why the score of a language-deciphering game tells you 'who these people are' before you can decode a single word.
Soundtrack: Unpacking — How to place a sound without overplaying it
The music Jeff van Dyck wrote for Unpacking layers acoustic guitar and piano over chiptune with its corners sanded off, and somehow it never overplays. In a puzzle with no failure and no timer, what does the music do, and what does it refuse to do? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through a lens you can carry back to your own composing.
Soundtrack: Machinarium — The arithmetic of loops that never go stale in a rusty world
The music Tomáš Dvořák (Floex) wrote for Amanita Design's dialogue-free, hand-drawn adventure Machinarium is a strange alloy: the body heat of piano and clarinet fused with a dirty analog synth and the clatter of scrap metal. In a game where you stare at the same screen for minutes on end, why do these loops keep living in your ear? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through the lens of 'the mixing ratio of abstraction and melody.'