The Music of Stasis

McT

McT

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Music is incredibly important to me. While I’m usually a I-can-do-it-on-my-own person, I knew that having the perfect music for Stasis would mean having to find a pro.

One of the main goals of the Kickstarter campaign was to bring on a professional composer to translate the Stasis world and story into music. That is way easier to say, than do!

When Mark Morgan asked to be a part of the project I almost fell off my chair. It’s no secret that the Fallout series was a transformative experience for me when I was younger; to have Fallout’s composer work on this little project of mine… well, I was more than a little intimidated!

From the get go, Mark and I shared the same vision for the sound of Stasis. The main sounds of the game come from John’s surroundings (you know who John is by now!) but the music comes from within. It’s his experience – his personal story – that is being told through the score. Mark instantly understood what I was trying to put across and has created a haunting internal score.

The idea was to have a strong melody base around a lullaby. Creepy, huh? There are early leanings towards this idea in the trailers, as well as the opening piano music in the Alpha (played by me when I was in my I-can-do-it-on-my-own stage). Mark took this concept and created a beautiful melody that we are using as a foundation for the score.

Instead of focusing on scene based music, we’re using the score to accentuate John’s emotions. HOPE, FEAR, TERROR: these are the central themes for the music of Stasis – the skeleton that everything hangs off of.

More at the source: http://www.stasisgame.com/music-stasis/
 
Sounds great! I agree, music adds so much, thats one of the MANY things I loved about Planescape Torment so much, the background music conveyed such a dept of feeling and emotion. Its was simple music at times, just bare notes, but very effective.
 
And this music appears to be fairly simple using only a piano, cello and violin to capture the gamer's emotion and identify with the central character of the game, John.
 
I keep getting the Stasis updates and I keep wanting to watch the videos, thinking that I will do it later and then I forget.

Will hopefully watch tonight.
 
I have a vested interest in this. It'll be the most I've paid for a game when it's eventually completed. But as it is a Saffer making this I took a leap of faith.
 
McT said:
I have a vested interest in this. It'll be the most I've paid for a game when it's eventually completed. But as it is a Saffer making this I took a leap of faith.
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Which Kickstarter option did you go for? Hehe I can't even remember which one I picked. Will have to go look. I love the look of the game though and it's awesome to support fellow South Africans.
 
yup, i also backed on Kickstarter, partly coz it looked good and partly coz it was a saffer :)
 
Solitude said:
Which Kickstarter option did you go for? Hehe I can't even remember which one I picked. Will have to go look. I love the look of the game though and it's awesome to support fellow South Africans.
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I went with the $99 option :o

Hiro said:
yup, i also backed on Kickstarter, partly coz it looked good and partly coz it was a saffer :)
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You good man!
 
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