Kole Hicks releases ambient acoustic soundtrack for Kenshi
Aspiring indie composer Kole Hicks has released his latest soundtrack, Kenshi. The soundtrack features instrumental performances to capture Kenshi‘s wilderness, including strings, exotic winds, accordion, koto, and fretless bass. Kole notes the following about the album release below:
“The music system in Kenshi has been designed in such a way that, as you play through the game, the engine randomly selects from a handful of different musical elements to create new compositional excerpts. It is this ambient approach and ‘non-player interactivity’ of the music that reinforces Kenshi’s indifferent tone. Obviously for a traditional soundtrack release we can not recreate the randomization of this music system (yet). However, we can get close and musically sculpt each track with wide brushstrokes to capture the same feeling.”
Posted on May 16, 2016 by Chris Greening. Last modified on May 16, 2016.
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