‘Score to Screen’ with ‘Sea of Solitude’ composer; Guy Jackson
Composer Guy Jackson is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Sea of Solitude composer shares details about challenges he faced translating the heavy emotional themes from the video game into music as well as discusses the exciting experience of arranging tone poems for each character.
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Sea of Solitude takes you on a personal journey of a young woman’s loneliness. As the gameplay unfolds, set sail across a beautiful and evolving world, where nothing is quite what it seems. Meet fantastical creatures and monsters, learn their stories, and solve challenges. Explore a flooded city, either by boat, on foot, or by swimming through the water itself. Dare to look what lies beneath the surface, in a haunting struggle of darkness and light, and discover what it truly means to be human.
Based in North London, Guy Jackson specializes in highly crafted layered musical compositions, amalgamating acoustic and electronic sounds while encompassing both classical and ambient genres. His work is perfectly suited to the silver screen, enhancing and supporting the mood and tone of a broad variety of visual content. Guy is the resident composer and sound designer for Berlin based online game creators, Jo-Mei Games. He scored and produced the sound effects for titles such as Koyotl, Who Let the Pets Out? and Monkey Bay. Another of the titles that benefited from the Guy Jackson treatment, Brave Little Beasties (published 2013), was rated 10/10 for sound by Browsergame-magazin.de ─ proof, if ever there was any doubt, that a Guy Jackson score will enhance your visual creative. In association with his long-term collaborator, pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, Guy produced two CDs with the critically acclaimed Transparent Music project, which features musicians such as the legendary Davy Spillane, trumpeter Arve Henriksen, bassist Mo Foster and slide guitarist Michael Messer.
SEA OF SOLITUDE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
TRACKLIST
1. Discover the Past
2. Leave Me Alone
3. Sunny’s Theme
4. I Picture You Before Me (instrumental)
5. Through the Dark Matrix
6. Kay’s Theme
7. Overcome with Emotion
8. Engulfed by the Monster
9. The Onward Journey
10. Octopus Theme
11. My Floating Sanctuary
12. Lonely Dark Shadows
13. Battaglia
14. Ascension
15. Cold on the Outside
16. Battaglia — Lento Cortese
17. Braving the Cold
18. I Picture You Before Me
19. The Darker Side
20. What If?
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