So, the mine level of Escaping Wonderland is populated with laboring light bulbs. They’re simultaneously adorable and pitiable, their plight an allegory for creatives under duress.

I figured that the perfect way to evoke these sentient lighting accessories would with a verrophone. This is a fascinating instrument featuring a row of glass tubes which can be played with a mallet or finger. The resulting music cue, humorous and (for a lack of a better word) glassy, is this week’s selection.

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p.s. This will be the last “cue of the week” of 2024. Happy impending holidays!

This week’s music selection from the VR game Escaping Wonderland is the second of three bouncy “mine exploration” themes. (Meaning a cave where precious minerals are found, not a Gollum-style grammar error.)

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This cue from the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack introduces a bouncy little theme for Molly’s exploration of Underland. I think there’s a law that says that sneaking about requires pizzicato strings in musical accompaniment, and I am not one to break that law.

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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.

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This music from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the player firing a slingshot with fruit ammunition in a cave. For reasons known only to my subconscious, I composed for marimba and woodblock.

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