20
April
2018
Cue of the Week: “Rise of the Middle Kingdom”
Each nation in Empires Apart has its own musical theme, evoking its cultural character as embodied in the game. (Picking a country here is a... Read More
13
April
2018
Cue of the Week: “Blades of the Faithful”
Yikes, it’s been nearly a month since the last Cue of the (so-called) Week. Sometimes the work of writing new music circumvents the sharing of... Read More
29
March
2018
Empires Apart released on Steam
I’m happy to announce the Steam release of Empires Apart, a medieval real-time strategy game by DESTINYbit and published by UK-based Slitherine. I wrote over... Read More
16
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Birth of Empires”
Ah, the early stages of a war game. The mood is optimistic. We haven’t yet heard the blood-curdling screams of onscreen avatars (and real-life players).... Read More
09
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Warriors of Tenochtitlan”
The title above is a bit of a cheat, since in Empires Apart this music represents all meso-American cultures rather than strictly the Aztecs. (Tenochtitlan... Read More
02
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “From Fields to Towns”
Empires Apart, launching this month, is a real-time strategy game that revisits the genre with beautiful stylized visuals. RTS games start peacefully, as the player... Read More
16
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Driving While Inspired”
Sometimes the flow of a film requires a very short musical cue. These are surprisingly tricky to write. An entire scene may be emotionally defined... Read More
09
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Craving Greatness (Opening Sequence)”
This weeks’s selection is a two-part cue that opens Stephanie Keefer’s film about the joys and struggles of the creative process. (I featured the closing... Read More
19
January
2018
Cue of the Week: “Write On”
When my friend and collaborator Stephanie Keefer approached me about her quasi-autobiographical film about inspiration and the creative process, I immediately became excited. A mere... Read More
16
January
2018
Music recommendation: Kikimora (Anatoly Liadov)
Anatoly Liadov didn’t write much for orchestra, but I’m very fond of the works he did create. In Slavic mythology, a Kikimora is a kind... Read More
