The Messenger

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Chimera Fenris

Here’s one out of left field. This is music from Chimera which was an expantion pack for the “Myth 2: Soulblighter” videogame from Bungie. I really attempted to channel my inner György Ligeti on this one!

The “droning” sounds came from the VL1 and most of the other synth sounds were from the venerable Yamaha TG500. I do remember using a lot of transform edits in Logic to invert pitch, create pitch bend and do many other weird and nerdy things. I believe I did this in 1999.

I think the backwards whisper voice is saying “my baloney has a first name.”

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The Fiend

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Chimera Four Bear

This is another piece I wrote for Chimera, Bungie’s expansion for “Myth 2: Soulblighter.” It’s pretty much all VL1 except for the heartbeat sound. I was going for a creepy, demonic vibe and I think this captures it. The distant horn-like sound that comes around every now and then is purely serendipitous.

As the VL depends heavily on being “fed” controller messages to make sound, I think just started “drawing” a bunch of controllers into the sequencer. Once I started getting something that sounded “good”, I’d add another stream and see how that sounded. Eventually all the streams gave me this.

At no time did I cross the streams!

Here’s what it looks like in-game:


And here’s the audio:

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