Having had a lovely time at the Edinburgh Fringe (no I didn’t eat haggis this year), I’m back stateside and will happily resume sharing excerpts from my work.

This cue from the game Empire Earth II introduces the Korean faction. As with most of the music in this game, I used an orchestral interpretation of national folk music, supplemented with ethnic instrumentation. (In this case the wooden flute.)

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This week’s selection from Wizard Ops Tactics portrays the game’s swamp level as a damp and ominous place. Plaintive woodwinds ease in and out over low string undulations, while excerpts of the game’s main theme recur in the brass. The low string lines themselves are just the main theme, slowed down and altered to fit into 7/8 time. (Yes, I’m lazy and prefer to re-use existing material rather than write more.)

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This week’s cue heralds one of the bad guys in the original Wizard Ops game: a hulking, missile-spewing worm. (I hate when I find one of those in my lawn.)

As befits a worm of this stature, I wrote an apocalyptic piece for chorus, orchestra, and pulsing drums. The choir chants the words “chaos” and “maker”, the latter being part of the ultimate villain’s name.

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