Hot on the heels of the VR game “Escaping Wonderland” comes the official game soundtrack by yours truly. You’ll enjoy orchestral scherzos, heightened elevator music, a haunting lullaby, and probably way too much pizzicato.
Buy the album on BandCamp (warmly encouraged) or stream it through any of the usual suspects. Links below:
Bandcamp
Spotify
Apple Music
YouTube
Cortopia has released Escaping Wonderland for Meta Quest and other newfangled high-tech escapism headsets. I’m delighted to have written the score for this emotionally resonant puzzle/story game, the followup to Cortopia’s hit Down the Rabbit Hole. Early reviews are overwhelmingly (and deservedly) positive.
If you’re a VR gamer, be sure to check it out!
This week’s music selection is the opening from Emerald, Texas, filmmaker George Adams’ modern-day reinvention of The Wizard of Oz.
In this cue I lay out the instrumental palette of the entire score: acoustic blues guitar, solo strings, drums, and – to use the technical musical term – weird surreal floaty stuff in the background.
As the film plays with the boundaries of the waking world, the music keeps one foot in down-home existence and one in a more dreamlike place.
For some reason I think of this blog as having TV-like seasons, each of which kicks off after summer travels. So welcome to season fifteen or so!
This week I re-run my favorite music from the feature film Emerald, Texas, which envisions The Wizard of Oz in modern day. The protagonists are lazing in a resplendent field of flowers — loosely, the poppy fields from the original book. I took the opportunity to write a pastoral string melody to reflect the expansive prettiness and momentary peace.
I really need to make an album of this score, but (insert standard excuses about not having enough time here).
There’s a new trailer for “Escaping Wonderland”, the followup to Cortopia’s VR hit, “Down the Rabbit Hole”. You can even hear a bit of my score if you crane your ears. Check it out!
