TLT: It taught me a lot about how songs can be best represented in the video game medium, to me it’s very important to understand the story and its pacing so I can interpret from that how a song or the music should feel. Yoav, how did your experience working on other horror franchises shape your approach to In Sound Mind? having Yair who is integral to the story of the game being also the lyricist for the songs I think adds a lot to making it all cohesive. so I came up with songs early on that are based on the concept art and the story, and if they work and the team likes it, Yair later comes up with lyrics and we then go back and forth on how the vocals should sound until we got a complete song. TLT: I’m much a musical guy so I usually come up with a song with just a melody line that’s supposed to be the vocals, which later I write lyrics that fit it. I’ve never written music like that before and it was a challenging and amazing experience. In some cases, writing these songs for these characters helped us in finishing the chapter.Įssentially how it worked was Yoav would send me a very basic template of what the verse/chorus would sound like (an idea) and I would start applying thoughts and lore about the character to that template. See the songs always came from the same need - to better understand who this person is.
Yair: I’ll be honest, sometimes the songs were written before the chapter was fully fleshed out, but that’s ok. What was your process for weaving those two elements together like? Music and storytelling are so intrinsically tied together. I mean, yeah, I also managed to hide some stuff and fill in some gaps using the lyrics of these songs but it’s not like I’m gonna publicly shine a light on that and have it then be analyzed by the audience only to end up in criticism of the story OR my work. Every moment in life has its own soundtrack, be it the chirping of birds, the ringing of silence or the rock hard metal of fighting a monster made of your own anger and fear. It enriches and seasons what is already there, it lets us gain another perspective and perhaps relate in a different way. Yair: The music in ISM is as important to the story as music is to you in your daily life. It also connects to the tape motif and the idea of playing back their stories to know more about them also from an emotional point of view. so we wrote the songs in such a way to give each character an identity.
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TLT: The idea from the very beginning was to have a full song made for each character’s story, and then have the soundtrack made based on each song, we believe It helps to ground you into how the characters are feeling because it’s like how anyone can have their own personal favorite genre of music, or a song that really speaks to them. How important is the music, both the soundtrack and the score, to In Sound Mind? And how does music tie into the game’s universe at large? Today is National Music Day, and to celebrate we asked In Sound Mind’s lead writer Yair Ben-Dor and composer The Living Tombstone (TLT), some questions about the music in the upcoming psychological horror game! Take a deep dive into their creative process, the importance of the music and score of In Sound Mind, and more in the interview below.
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