{"id":445,"date":"2012-03-23T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T10:37:46","slug":"breathing-engine-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/breathing-engine-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing engine music."},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed a post yesterday. It was a busy day. Part of it was spent listening to music for Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After a wonderful experience on our prototype project<\/a> Cncntrc<\/em><\/a>, I asked Walter Hus<\/a> to compose music for Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> too. Part of my motivation was that, next to being an accomplished composer, he is also an enthusiastic piano teacher. And piano teaching is an element in Moderato Cantabile<\/em>, the novel by Marguerite Duras that provides for the initial situation in Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One of the peculiar things about Mr Hus’ recent work is that it almost always involves a monumental<\/A> computer-driven<\/a> Decap pipe organ<\/a>. When I visited his studio yesterday, he just switched on the device and I was welcomed by a low throbbing sound coming from the biggest pipes of the organ that made everything in the small room vibrate. From there, the sound evolved into a fascinating surreal seascape with waves coming from the motorized breathing of an accordion, ethereal voices flowing in the wind, subtle piano tingles and amusing references to 70s synthesizer ambiance.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to hear how evocatively he had captured the idea of a beach simulation running on the holodeck of a remote space station. I could feel the engine of the craft, hear the wistful sighs of the ocean and lonely cries of man and machine in empty space. I was pondering changing the entire game so everything in it would be triggered by the music alone. Because all I wanted to do was listen to it. But then we came to our senses and decided to mix the music dynamically in the game, as we did in Cncntrc<\/em> -and The Path<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So even if all else fails, I feel the music for Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> alone is sufficient justification for this project to exist. I’m looking forward to implementing some tracks in the game and seeing where the music leads the design and aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed a post yesterday. It was a busy day. Part of it was spent listening to music for Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9. After a wonderful experience on our prototype project Cncntrc, I asked Walter Hus to compose music for Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9 too. Part of my motivation was that, next to being an accomplished composer, he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}