The Witcher 3 Blood & Wine OST Q&A session
summary
Music for Blood & Wine and Frostpunk uses time-stretched sounds 60x and layered orchestral textures; two large Witcher suites get orchestrated for a ~12,000-seat concert. Frostpunk builds ambience from stretched snippets, a strings quartet and larger string sessions recorded in Sofia, with roughly three months of composing plus recording. Live orchestra budgets can hit ~$100,000, Frostpunk wins Best Game Music 2018, and both projects favor simple track-switching over fully adaptive engines.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Early musical beginnings
- 3:56Working on Blood & Wine
- 7:09Orchestration challenges
- 9:40Live vs software mockups
- 10:01Frost Punk approach
- 13:54Frost Punk process
- 15:20Blood & Wine DLC
- 17:32Winter and seasons
- 17:53Frost Punk impact
- 19:18Composing for The Last Autumn
- 21:49Adaptive music thoughts
- 25:27Composing techniques
- 26:55Adaptive music influences
- 29:05Key considerations when composing for games
- 32:43Freelance process
- 33:51Netflix series opinions
- 34:56Game music research
- 36:10Closing
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