{"id":10103,"date":"2023-05-22T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/how-assassins-creed-mirage-captured-the-islamic-golden-age-in-a-disused-new-york-power-station\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T10:38:36","slug":"how-assassins-creed-mirage-captured-the-islamic-golden-age-in-a-disused-new-york-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/how-assassins-creed-mirage-captured-the-islamic-golden-age-in-a-disused-new-york-power-station\/","title":{"rendered":"How Assassin\u2019s Creed Mirage captured the Islamic golden age \u2013 in a disused New York power station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Brendan Angelides was cautious about agreeing to write the soundtrack for the latest edition of Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster. But then he met  Palestinian composer and orchestrator Akram Haddad<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, initially, Ubisoft approached me because of my electronic music background \u2013 my live career, my albums, my touring. But I didn\u2019t know if I was the right person for the job, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Composer Brendan Angelides has never worked in video game music before. You might know him better as Eskmo or Welder, or perhaps as the mind behind the music of TV shows 13 Reasons Why or Billions. When Ubisoft approached him to be the composer for its sort-of reboot of the Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise, Mirage, he had doubts. The game is set at the height of the Islamic golden age, and centres around Baghdad: a hub flowing with the lifeblood of a changing world, a cultural centre of art and science, old and new.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/may\/22\/assassins-creed-mirage-soundtrack-composer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4383cf2c2cbba716f02b78a0f148b468b574014d\/120_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ee99826db826d9f0ffcfbe39657de5ce\" title=\"How Assassin\u2019s Creed Mirage captured the Islamic golden age \u2013 in a disused New York power station\" \/>Composer Brendan Angelides was cautious about agreeing to write the soundtrack for the latest edition of Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster. But then he met  Palestinian composer and orchestrator Akram Haddad<br \/>\n\u201cI think, initially, Ubisoft approached me because of my electronic music background \u2013 my live career, my albums, my touring. But I didn\u2019t know if I was the right person for the job, you know?\u201d<br \/>\nComposer Brendan Angelides has never worked in video game music before. You might know him better as Eskmo or Welder, or perhaps as the mind behind the music of TV shows 13 Reasons Why or Billions. When Ubisoft approached him to be the composer for its sort-of reboot of the Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise, Mirage, he had doubts. The game is set at the height of the Islamic golden age, and centres around Baghdad: a hub flowing with the lifeblood of a changing world, a cultural centre of art and science, old and new. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Brendan Angelides was cautious about agreeing to write the soundtrack for the latest edition of Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster. But then he met Palestinian composer and orchestrator Akram Haddad \u201cI think, initially, Ubisoft approached me because of my electronic music background \u2013 my live career, my albums, my touring. But I didn\u2019t know if I was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/how-assassins-creed-mirage-captured-the-islamic-golden-age-in-a-disused-new-york-power-station\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Assassin\u2019s Creed Mirage captured the Islamic golden age \u2013 in a disused New York power station<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}