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Soundtrack: Timelie — Rewindable music, built for scrubbing time
A girl and a black cat escape by scrubbing time itself back and forth like a media player. Under that board you hear piano, a music box, and — sounds sampled from an array of clocks. Pongsathorn Posayanonth and Aun Jessada wove 'the sound of time' into the score. Black coffee in hand, I take apart music written on the assumption that the player will constantly rewind, in a form you can carry home to your own work.
Soundtrack: Superliminal — The most suspicious sound is the one that soothes you
You wake in the waiting room of a dream-therapy program. What Matt Christensen wrote for Superliminal is lounge jazz that could be playing in a hotel lobby, carried by pianist John Reeves' hands. The comfort is both the weapon and the biggest misdirection — just like the puzzles where perspective changes an object's size. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart how this no-fail first-person puzzle meshes with music that never rushes you, through a lens you can carry back to your own composing.
Soundtrack: Obduction — Music that changes its timbre from world to world
Robyn Miller, who wrote the music for Myst and Riven, came back to Cyan's worlds after twenty years. The music of Obduction changes its very timbre each time a world changes. Including how he made it — looping footage of someone walking on his iPad and finding the themes on his piano — I, Doremi, take it apart with a black coffee in hand, through a lens you can carry home to your own composing.
Soundtrack: Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — piano cutting through hotel dark
In Simogo's dense observation puzzle Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, the music by Daniel Olsén and collaborators centers a piano grounded in Debussy and Satie while melting the digital into the acoustic. Doremi reads, from a composer's angle, how the sound supports long thinking and quietly agrees with the visuals.
