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Soundtrack: The Talos Principle 2 — answering scale with a choir
A first-person puzzle in which you leave New Jerusalem, the city the robots built, and walk toward the colossal Megastructure on the horizon. Damjan Mravunac's music is written for orchestra, electronics, and choir, sounding the small time of solving a puzzle and the time of marveling at the size of the world at two different tempos. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why the biggest sound is reserved for the walking.
Soundtrack: World of Goo — A waltz before the storm, leaning into the building hand
The music Kyle Gabler wrote for World of Goo holds a Tim Burton-esque gothic carnival and an Ennio Morricone western in the same room. Why does this waltz lean so gently into the trembling hand that stacks the goo balls? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through a lens you can take home to your own composing.
Soundtrack: Return of the Obra Dinn — music that sounds, then steps back
Raise the pocketwatch and, after a few seconds of black, you drop into a frozen tableau of a death. The pseudo-19th-century orchestra Lucas Pope wrote alone swells at that instant, then quietly withdraws. Between the sounding and the silence is where deduction lives.