Category Description

Original music composition for a motion design project

Project Description

“There’s a musical sequence in Genesis Noir which rivals the best in recent video game memory.”
~Vice

Genesis Noir is a critically acclaimed game for PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox set before, during, and after The Big Bang.

An adventure game with an emphasis on exploration, simple interactions, and generative art, Genesis Noir is around six hours of non-repeating gameplay. That’s a lot of music!

Unfortunately there is far too much to represent in one little gameplay capture video; the score runs through sleuthy noir jazz, to spiritual / cosmic jazz, to ancient Japanese ceremonial drums all the way to cutting-edge electronica. We just wish we could squeeze it into a single video.

A four-year endeavour in which we recorded a jazz quintet, a choir, a shakuhachi flute and a 30-piece string orchestra, producing several hours of reactive, interactive, generative and incidental music

Credits

Game developed by Feral Cat Den and published by Fellow Traveller.
Music by Tom Carrell & Vincent Oliver at Skillbard

Drums & Percussion: Saleem Raman
Tenor Sax: Josh Arcoleo
Trumpet: Freddie Gavita
Double Bass: Chris Hyson
Shakuhachi: Clive Bell

Solo vocals: Kitty Whitelaw
Additional Vocalisations: Sarah Johns
Piano: Angus Bayley

Deep Throat Choir: Natalie Pela, Sarah Parkes, Nouria Bah, Fran Lobo
Voice actors: Elton E Jones, Nadia Marshall, Noa Kurzweil, Oki Mikito
Drum Recording: Kristian & Jordan at Total Refreshment Centre
String Arrangements: Finn McNicholas

Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra
Orchestra Session contractor/session producer: Miklos Lukacs
Conductor: Peter Pejtsik
Budapest Recording studio: East Connection Music Recording
Orchestra ProTools engineer: David Lukacs