I wanted a simple way to experiment with interactive scores, implemented in Unreal and Wwise, that allows for things like changing combat intensity levels without actually having to build a game with NPC enemies, AI, etc.
So: a proxy system.
For my second #7DaysOfVGM Composition Challenge, I treated all seven little pieces of music I wrote as if they were all part of the same video game score.
In some circles this is a genuine oldy-but-goody. Vocal music wizard Bobby McFerrin was part of a panel discussing the intersection of music and the science of the brain, and this really fantastic little musical experiment was part of it.
For more music & mind from Bobby and a stage full of bright people, start here.
We all know drummers like to bang on everything. (Especially those who are married to drummers. Sorry, Heather!) Here are three videos of some great found object percussion, featuring two different approaches: street and… otherwise.
If you appreciate a good Mendelssohn melody like I do, you might be interested to hear that a piece of his that was thought to have been privately commissioned, and never publicly performed before disappearing, has resurfaced. Read more and hear what is likely the first performance in a century and a half.