Brian Eno To Create Music For Spore
After some oohing and ahhing surrounded with an aura of unconfirmation on the matter; electronic musician, music theorist and record producer Brain Eno has being confirmed as musical curator for the upcoming game from the mind of Will Wright – Spore! Even though you might have never heard of Brain Eno the possibility he brings to the music contained in the upcoming game is highly interesting.
It is believed that instead of the loops of music which are tied to certain stages or areas – as is the norm for games – Eno along with his team; while working with Wright will use software called The Shuffler to create something special and unique which will suit the one of a kind game. The Shuffler is a piece of software where different certain samples of music can be placed in and then rearranged infinitely which will result in the same composition supposedly never been heard twice within a lifetime.
Right now it is unknown if the pieces of music will be tied to suit your specific in game creations or if they will be just totally random but whatever happens it is without doubt and exciting addition to an already very exciting game! Eno’s production credits include some of the most respected albums by Talking Heads, James and U2.
Comments from our old site:
Allyn on Tuesday 16th January 2007 10:05:
Anyone who doesn't know who Brian Eno is needs to learn that music was actually being made before the year 2000...
Neblar on Tuesday 16th January 2007 12:56:
Did you know? Brian Eno wrote the Windows 95 startup theme. (along with countless other things)
This should be good. :)
Ben on Tuesday 16th January 2007 13:04:
That was a great start-up theme.
Neblar on Tuesday 16th January 2007 13:43:
You missed out David Bowie from the list of artists. :D
Jam_sponge on Tuesday 16th January 2007 14:48:
Now if they'd got Bowie to do the startup Jingle for Vista- i'd buy it.
jedbeetle on Friday 17th August 2007 04:09:
Heh. Too bad. I doubt the music will be as revolutionary as the game.
The Shuffler sounds like a big electronic Musikalisches Würfelspiel - dice game written by Mozart (originally invented by Johann Philipp Kirnberger 1721-1783). Nothing new here! The fact that the music won't repeat exactly is kind of cool, but a GA game needs GA music, or some kind of truly Algorithmic or Intelligent music. There is so much possibility with a game like this - to have music that evolves with your creature, that reflects the culture developed by your creature, that starts primitive and becomes space age. I only hope Eno takes some of this into account. I know for a fact that he does not possess the knowledge or resources to make the music in this game TRULY spectacular.
I really hope it doesn't wind up sounding like the music from SimEarth. Worst algorithmic game music ever.
Sorry, as a composer, programmer, musician, gamer, I pretty much hate most game music with very few exceptions (the final fantasy series, ffX in particular, has wonderful music), and, even if it is good, turn it off in favor of my own sound track, something i'm sure a lot of us do. The idea of truly dynamic game music sounds wonderful, but I know of very few people in the world who could actually make that happen, and none of them are terribly well known.
-jraf
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