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I made a little experiment orchestrating elden Ring's shaman village theme using the textures and melodies of Morrowind. Heavily inspired by the infernoplus mod, check it out: youtu.be/su4NMlKNESQ?...

I quite like these pictures

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Artists, use oy one piece to convince people to follow you!

Hello lads, this is the second to last track on my ancient scrolls/es6 album and the one I'm most proud. It's very inspired by impressionism and designed for a big lore reveal youtu.be/XjfSYGOuSBY

music is not mystical or arcanistic, its an art that can be learned and dissected. jeremy soule was not a good man and while his music was great, it doesnt make him any more than his fellow man. too many people in the tes community treat him like an untouchable god

i wrote a piece of music about what happens when you interact with this woman of stone in about an hour

the music that plays when nothing is happening is the most important music in your game. it's on for hours. it becomes the world itself

Having a strong regional identity for different regions and peoples of a game, probably even more than having it match the biome. If the music for various cities and places could be swapped without anyone noticing, maybe it should be more distinctive, weird or some defining factor

i just secured an internship with the elder scrolls series' original composer :)

its out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8meB... open.spotify.com/album/6cNqLw... bentheduelist.bandcamp.com/album/ancien...

Ive been working on a soundtrack concept for the Elder Scrolls VI for half a year now, itll come out in 2 days

worldbuilding is so overrated. if a story has great characters and character arcs, i'll take the shittiest worldbuilding you can give me. idgaf about lore if it doesn't make me care about your characters

i love worldbuilding and this is so real. way too much happening in the background and an emotionally unmoving story will kill a story no matter how realistically detailed the planet is, or how scientifically systematic the magic system is

more fantasy music should borrow from jazz, not for complexity,nor in a surface-level way, but because theres colors in jazz and the blues that just havent been explored yet by rpgs

not to brag but i did this in my head when i was 9

with the advent of open world games, there was a reversal where the world was huge, but everything in it is so literal it doesnt strike the imagination as much

one of the miracles of old games is how little they told you and how big that became in your mind a few notes of music, some pixels of a foggy coastline, and your imagination was doing most of the worldbuilding

pixel souls demastered is pretty cool! heres an edit i made to my arrangement of a dungeon theme from daggerfall

this artist @chirunax.bsky.social, inspired me to write some music about the dichotomy between these two pieces, written in about 1.5 hours

Artists, show your range ✨

early 3D rpg music really said “you are alone in a world that barely renders correctly” and somehow that hit the same a full orchestra

ive started a project reorchestrating daggerfall themes as if they were in later elder scrolls games like morrowind and skyrim. some specific songs have gotten a lot of traction but you can check out the full suite here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

ive started a project reorchestrating daggerfall themes as if they were in later elder scrolls games like morrowind and skyrim. some specific songs have gotten a lot of traction but you can check out the full suite here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@goddhoward please

very happy the elder scrolls vi wont be using any generative ai

you can find my new song that has a LIVE 24 piece band on bandcamp, we got a full jazz band, 2 guitarists, extra keyboard, featured singer, background vocals, and a string quartet, listen here: bentheduelist.bandcamp.com/track/the-co...

some pieces of music are less like stories and more like weather

save files are such a cool artifact entire worlds waiting in suspended time for you to press continue

heres a small snippet of my arrangement of snow over northmoor, you can catch the full thing on yt

heres a small snippet of my arrangement of snow over northmoor, you can catch the full thing on yt

i made a new arrangement of snow over northmoor from daggerfall youtu.be/90Bb6Cdwve8

i made a new arrangement of snow over northmoor from daggerfall youtu.be/90Bb6Cdwve8

Thank you guys for so much support on my daggerfall rearrangenent! Another one is coming as soon as i edit the video

i wrote another composition in about an hour based off of this!

to me, no music is bad, some music is just more effective at conveying its message, and that message evokes different things in different people

i used to think certain kinds of music were simple then i tried writing them and realized theyre just economical. koji kondo put his stats into melody writing, the elder scrolls composer into orchestration, camellia put his into production

i rearranged the elder scrolls ii: daggerfall theme to be an ambient track from modern elder scrolls games

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Just remembered I drew this guy.

rpg worlds feel mythic to me because they remember things i wasnt there for histories, losses, promises that still shape everything. maybe the real world too can be an rpg

being around other composers changed how i hear things not because i learned rules, but because i learned what questions were worth asking. too many beginners focus too much on the shadows of what they dont know, and not enough illuminating themselves by studying music they love

Art is resistance. Keep making it! ✨

i wrote a piece of music about what happens when you interact with this woman of stone in about an hour

FANTASY/DRACOLCH.GIF

this is heavily inspired by TES btw

i hope the elder scrolls 6 has good music