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November 2024
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Cue of the Week: “Watts”

This week’s music selection from the soundtrack of Escaping Wonderland accompanies the gruff-but-kind supervisor of a mineshaft staffed by sentient light bulbs. (As happens frequently in the game, there’s a metaphor at work here.) The music conveys a benevolent kind of surliness in an environment rich with dark humor.

(Click below to play… or jump to Spotify or Apple Music.)

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November 2024
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Cue of the Week: “Nowhere to Go but Up”

This week’s music from Escaping Wonderland starts early in the game, where poor Molly finds herself lost in bleak-looking caverns. The score is appropriately melancholy. Fragments of her lullaby theme suggest glimmers of hope, which at this point feels very distant.

We segue into a more contrapuntal section for piano, flute, and glockenspiel. To be honest, this is the game’s opening menu music, which I had to move in order to avoid too many “intro” flavor tracks in a row on the album. This sort of curational shenanigan is common when going from an interactive game to a linear soundtrack. Anyway… enjoy!

(Click below to play… or jump to Spotify or Apple Music.)

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October 2024
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Cue of the Week: “Mr. Mole’s Home”

I know, “Mr. Mole’s House” rolls off the tongue more euphoniously, but said mole lives in what could be described as warmly-decorated cave, and I strive for maximum accuracy in music titling.

This is all part of the VR adventure game Escaping Wonderland (which has been getting nothing but rave reviews, a few of which even mention music!) Speaking of music, today’s score excerpt is an affable and folksy guitar-and-bassoon tune for Mr. Mole, the player’s advisor throughout her journey.

(Click below to play… or jump to Spotify or Apple Music.)

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October 2024
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Cue of the Week: “A Melody Remembered”

Over the next few weeks, I’ll share some of my favorite score tracks from Escaping Wonderland, a just-released VR game that takes place in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe. It’s a delightful game with unexpected story depth (all is not as cute and whimsical as it seems!), and so created great opportunities for music.

This week’s selection is a dreamy vocal melody that plays a recurring role throughout the score. Here it’s presented as a hummed duet, courtesy of Phoebe Engelbert (who also did some voice acting in the game) and Alison Borodzicz.

(Click below to play… or jump to Spotify or Apple Music.)

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