This week’s music accompanies an Escaping Wonderland puzzle which requires simultaneously navigating both floor and ceiling. (Gravity is unusually flexible in this particular area.) This week you’ll hear the “normal” music, and next time you’ll hear the accompanying upside-down cue, which, appropriately, inverts the melody.

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Continuing the musical exploration of Escaping Wonderland, this week’s selection comes from the game’s Bitter Glade region. As the title suggests… there’s a lot of snow. But there’s also fun problem-solving and impish humor, and the score tries to reflect all of the above with a wistful but light-footed tone.

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The Cheshire Cat music from 2020’s Down the Rabbit Hole was impish and bouncy, and remains one of my most streamed cues. In Escaping Wonderland the famous feline has a far more ominous persona, gloating over a frozen waste of a forest from which he’s driven all residents.

As you’d guess the music has changed as well, now a brooding melody for bass clarinet against cold string harmonies. There is however a quirky agility to the tune. (An evil cat is still a cat.)

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Although Escaping Wonderland is a nonviolent video game, there’s plenty of fun action, often involving a slingshot. This week’s music selection accompanies a moment where the player knocks tubes into alignment in order to emancipate a flow of stolen creative energy in defiance of a callous Jabberwock and… it might be easier to play the game than for me to explain all this.

Anyway, enjoy today’s slingshot-minigame-in-a-cave music!

A game set in Lewis Carroll’s universe can be rightly expected to include a particular manxome foe. In Escaping Wonderland, he’s portrayed as the heartless boss of an overworked miner population, who needs to be taken down with some well-aimed slingshot sabotage.

To musically represent the dragonesque creature I gave a solo to the contrabassoon, the bigger and more ornery brother of the regular bassoon. It has a sinister growly quality that I felt was perfect for the character.

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