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June 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Estate Explorations”

This week’s music selection from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the mischievous puzzle-solving happenings in the game’s estate biome.

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June 2025
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Cue of the Week: “I’m Not Sure That’s Entirely Safe”

Continuing the exploration of the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack, this week’s music selection accompanies a region inhabited by rebellious teen mice. Specifically, they’re rebelling against basic safety precautions, casually lounging near burning stoves, mouse traps, etc. Needless to say, their mom is concerned.

The score reflects their blasé attitude with a quasi-vaudevillian mood and theme for solo whistler.

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May 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Dig the Elevator, Baby”

The above title should really be “cue of the month”, as I’ve been tied up scoring a rather charming Christmas movie while this blog/newsletter/etc has been sadly neglected. That neglect ends today!

In the game Escaping Wonderland, available for finer virtual reality headsets everywhere, the player ascends by means of an elevator. Naturally the score includes elevator music, which was tremendously fun to write. (Owners of actual elevators, I am available for commissions.) This one takes inspiration from 1960s lounge pop.

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May 2025
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“A Chrismystery” score complete!

I’ve just finished scoring this charming romantic comedy, which will be coming your way around (you guessed it) Christmas. Along the way I discovered that this genre is great fun to work with musically. I even repurposed “Carol of the Bells” as a leitmotif for the central crime that takes place in the small-town setting.

Additional details and zeal later this year as the holiday season impends!

28
March 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Upside Down”

Last week’s music selection accompanied a puzzle in Escaping Wonderland wherein the player is standing on the ground, as gravity would normally lead us to expect. However, magic is afoot, and the puzzle also needs to be tackled by someone standing on the ceiling.

To score this moment, I wrote an “upside-down” version of the previous piece. Where the original melody goes up, the new one goes down, and so on. I also had fun swapping instrumentation and register, and otherwise making this cue feel like the mirror inversion of its sibling. (Follow the link above if you’d like to compare the two.)

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March 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Downside Up”

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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February 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Snowy Woods”

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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February 2025
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Cue of the Week: “The Bitter Glade”

In this week’s music selection, high strings and melancholy voices evoke the snow-capped forest in the Bitter Glade region of Escaping Wonderland.

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