18
May
2018
Cue of the Week: “Dissent and Steel”
Continuing the music series from Empires Apart, this week’s cue is medium-energy combat score – great for when hostilities have broken out, but haven’t yet... Read More
11
May
2018
Cue of the Week: “Spires of Constantinople”
Now that some time has passed, this track has emerged as my favorite from the Empires Apart score. (It may be because I have a... Read More
27
April
2018
Cue of the Week: “The Crashing Red Tide”
The defining part of real-time strategy games is that they’re in, well, real time: your troops and civilians constantly move and frequently need your guidance.... Read More
20
April
2018
Cue of the Week: “Rise of the Middle Kingdom”
Each nation in Empires Apart has its own musical theme, evoking its cultural character as embodied in the game. (Picking a country here is a... Read More
13
April
2018
Cue of the Week: “Blades of the Faithful”
Yikes, it’s been nearly a month since the last Cue of the (so-called) Week. Sometimes the work of writing new music circumvents the sharing of... Read More
16
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Birth of Empires”
Ah, the early stages of a war game. The mood is optimistic. We haven’t yet heard the blood-curdling screams of onscreen avatars (and real-life players).... Read More
09
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Warriors of Tenochtitlan”
The title above is a bit of a cheat, since in Empires Apart this music represents all meso-American cultures rather than strictly the Aztecs. (Tenochtitlan... Read More
02
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “From Fields to Towns”
Empires Apart, launching this month, is a real-time strategy game that revisits the genre with beautiful stylized visuals. RTS games start peacefully, as the player... Read More
16
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Driving While Inspired”
Sometimes the flow of a film requires a very short musical cue. These are surprisingly tricky to write. An entire scene may be emotionally defined... Read More
09
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Craving Greatness (Opening Sequence)”
This weeks’s selection is a two-part cue that opens Stephanie Keefer’s film about the joys and struggles of the creative process. (I featured the closing... Read More
