A logical progression

As expected, things have been quiet in the musical wing of Mode 7 Towers recently, with tension mounting about some forthcoming exciting news.

However, we return to the cold and grey afternoon which comprises reality only to brighten it with the information that you can download ANOTHER track from the soundtrack to Determinance for free here.

Apotheosis was a really interesting track to do, and it helped close the project in a fun manner. I'm proud of it and I hope you like it.

Matt Sayre of 21-6 Productions was recently featured the article I wrote for Computer Music magazine in the UK, and already some new musicians have turned up in the forums looking for work. I can imagine that it's fairly difficult for musicians and designers to get together and get on the same wavelength, but I'd seriously recommend anyone looking for music in their game to head over to the music forum first before they poke around the internet trying to license stuff.

I'd like to urge any newcomers to try and behave themselves while waiting to get some work - it's probably best not to upset your potential clients.

It would be nice to set up a kind of showreel site, where composers could post their work and developers could browse for the kind of soundtrack they want - anyone interested? I don't have time to do this myself, but I'd certainly help out.

Edge had a feature on game music this month, which was pretty well done, but still slightly demonstrated that games mags aren't entirely sure how to deal with game music as a topic. I think that higher-profile scores will help with this in the future, but some kind of new journalistic approach is called for to cope with something as multi-faceted as a game score.