Art of the Score
In Episode 21 we finally make good on our long-held ...
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Oct 5 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
How does videogame music differ from film or television?Chapter 2 1 min
Dan’s complicated menu musicChapter 3 6 mins
thatgamecompany’s journey to Journey, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘flow’Chapter 4 2 mins
The rise of independent videogame development and aestheticsChapter 5 3 mins
Nascence and Wintory’s main Journey themeChapter 6 4 mins
Tina Guo’s cello, Amy Tatum’s flute, and Charissa Barger’s harpChapter 7 4 mins
Solo cello in Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hans Zimmer’s The Last SamuraiChapter 8 2 mins
Journey’s central weenieChapter 9 4 mins
The Call, the sonic palate cleanserChapter 10 3 mins
The MountainChapter 11 2 mins
Sound design and music in JourneyChapter 12 4 mins
The First Confluence and the absence of a downbeatChapter 13 3 mins
The Bridge and the Second ConfluenceChapter 14 3 mins
The first encounter and Journey’s danceChapter 15 2 mins
‘I was born for this’Chapter 16 6 mins
The Desert’s Threshold and the musical interactivity of JourneyChapter 17 6 mins
The melancholy beauty of the machinesChapter 18 9 mins
The Descent, and Nick’s musical snowboarding adventuresChapter 19 5 mins
The Belly of the Whale’s SerpentChapter 20 2 mins
The gaze of the sentinalsChapter 21 6 mins
Journey’s achingly beautiful string writing and Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin BrittenChapter 22 4 mins
Atonement and the giant structureChapter 23 8 mins
Journey’s Buddhist linksChapter 24 8 mins
The ascent to the peak (‘The Crossing’)Chapter 25 5 mins
The nadirChapter 26 11 mins
Apotheosis and the hero realisedChapter 27 6 mins
The return to Tina Guo’s solo celloChapter 28 2 mins
What does Journey mean? Is it a metaphor?Chapter 29
The Return?