Golden Hour Life Is Strange Ost
Jonathan Morali
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Browse piano sheets by Jonathan Morali on Zen Virtual Piano. Jonathan Morali told 20 Minutes he has played video games since the age of eight, loved the field and had a strong wish to work on a game, a different way of making music from an album or a film score. He added that the medium is still little explored by musicians, yet video games have moved him just as books and films have. A musician who sees games as a field still open to composers suggests someone drawn to new places to put his music. The paper notes that Morali had already signed several film scores, among them Mauvaise fille and Möbius. The game’s director first contacted him to obtain two Syd Matters pieces, To All of You and Obstacles, and then offered him the soundtrack of Life Is Strange. The soundtrack is crossed by soft guitar chords, creating a muffled, melancholic atmosphere, and starting from the two pieces the studio had asked for, Morali carried on with the same sonorities and an indie-folk spirit. Two songs that grew into a full soundtrack can be read as a style that carried over naturally from record to game. He told 20 Minutes that he would not compose three hours of music, so he had to find a way for it not to be repetitive and yet to loop and be listened to in the background, an interesting challenge for the writing. As leader of Syd Matters he supplied the studio with separate tracks, composing pieces whose tracks could be removed without the piece becoming meaningless, since the music changes with the characters’ locations. Pieces built so that layers can be taken away suggest a composer who thinks about how music will behave in play, not just how it sounds on a record. He told Indie Rock Mag that he began making music at about fourteen or fifteen, in his room, out of sight of others, and that it is still the place where he makes songs. Froggy’s Delight reports that he composes the music first, the melody comes next and the words come last. He told Hidden Track that he could not stand his own voice any more and wanted to learn to write instrumental music, composing without singing, so he grabbed the opportunities he had to do music for images. A bedroom, a wish to compose without singing and a turn to music for images together point toward a musician finding a second voice in writing for the screen.
Browse piano sheets by Jonathan Morali on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jonathan Morali told 20 Minutes he has played video games since the age of eight, loved the field and had a strong wish to work on a game, a different way of making music from an album or a film score. He added that the medium is still little explored by musicians, yet video games have moved him just as books and films have. A musician who sees games as a field still open to composers suggests someone drawn to new places to put his music.
The paper notes that Morali had already signed several film scores, among them Mauvaise fille and Möbius. The game’s director first contacted him to obtain two Syd Matters pieces, To All of You and Obstacles, and then offered him the soundtrack of Life Is Strange. The soundtrack is crossed by soft guitar chords, creating a muffled, melancholic atmosphere, and starting from the two pieces the studio had asked for, Morali carried on with the same sonorities and an indie-folk spirit. Two songs that grew into a full soundtrack can be read as a style that carried over naturally from record to game.
He told 20 Minutes that he would not compose three hours of music, so he had to find a way for it not to be repetitive and yet to loop and be listened to in the background, an interesting challenge for the writing. As leader of Syd Matters he supplied the studio with separate tracks, composing pieces whose tracks could be removed without the piece becoming meaningless, since the music changes with the characters’ locations. Pieces built so that layers can be taken away suggest a composer who thinks about how music will behave in play, not just how it sounds on a record.
He told Indie Rock Mag that he began making music at about fourteen or fifteen, in his room, out of sight of others, and that it is still the place where he makes songs. Froggy’s Delight reports that he composes the music first, the melody comes next and the words come last. He told Hidden Track that he could not stand his own voice any more and wanted to learn to write instrumental music, composing without singing, so he grabbed the opportunities he had to do music for images. A bedroom, a wish to compose without singing and a turn to music for images together point toward a musician finding a second voice in writing for the screen.
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Jonathan Morali is the leader of Syd Matters, who has also written film scores and the soundtrack of the game Life Is Strange.
The game’s director first contacted him to get two Syd Matters pieces, To All of You and Obstacles, and then offered him the soundtrack.
He supplied separate tracks that could be removed without the piece becoming meaningless, because the music changes with the characters’ locations.
He says he composes the music first, then the melody, then the words.