{"id":14603,"date":"2024-05-27T12:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/from-it-worker-to-god-of-music-the-unlikely-story-of-baldurs-gate-3-composer-borislav-slavov\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:38:25","slug":"from-it-worker-to-god-of-music-the-unlikely-story-of-baldurs-gate-3-composer-borislav-slavov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/from-it-worker-to-god-of-music-the-unlikely-story-of-baldurs-gate-3-composer-borislav-slavov\/","title":{"rendered":"From IT worker to god of music: the unlikely story of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 composer Borislav Slavov"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you hear the words \u2018down by the river\u2019 and immediately start humming one of modern gaming\u2019s most gorgeous earworms, you have the Bafta-winning Borislav Slavov to thank<\/p>\n

For Borislav \u201cBobby\u201d Slavov, it is not enough to just be a composer. The Bulgarian musician sees himself as a man who wears many hats: composer, music director, arranger, mixer. Yet back in 2002, he had just finished a master\u2019s in computer science and was working for the fourth biggest software company in the world. Unlike a number of other composers I have spoken to for this column, Slavov spends as much time as possible at the game studio he\u2019s working with, embedded in narratives and mechanics \u201cat a granular level\u201d so that his music \u201cisn\u2019t massacred and chopped up\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the very day I came up with that main theme, or Down By the River,\u201d he tells me before a sold out Game Music festival<\/a> concert in London\u2019s Southbank Centre, where the Philharmonia Orchestra performed more than 80 minutes of music from his soundtrack to Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/a>. \u201cI was having one of my favourite walks down one of the channels of the city of Ghent, and the lyrics were swimming around in the back of my mind. There was this special moment when I started hearing this theme. I stopped for a moment. I thought: this sounds exciting. I need to record this tune right now!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nIf you hear the words \u2018down by the river\u2019 and immediately start humming one of modern gaming\u2019s most gorgeous earworms, you have the Bafta-winning Borislav Slavov to thank
\nFor Borislav \u201cBobby\u201d Slavov, it is not enough to just be a composer. The Bulgarian musician sees himself as a man who wears many hats: composer, music director, arranger, mixer. Yet back in 2002, he had just finished a master\u2019s in computer science and was working for the fourth biggest software company in the world. Unlike a number of other composers I have spoken to for this column, Slavov spends as much time as possible at the game studio he\u2019s working with, embedded in narratives and mechanics \u201cat a granular level\u201d so that his music \u201cisn\u2019t massacred and chopped up\u201d.
\n\u201cI remember the very day I came up with that main theme, or Down By the River,\u201d he tells me before a sold out Game Music festival concert in London\u2019s Southbank Centre, where the Philharmonia Orchestra performed more than 80 minutes of music from his soundtrack to Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. \u201cI was having one of my favourite walks down one of the channels of the city of Ghent, and the lyrics were swimming around in the back of my mind. There was this special moment when I started hearing this theme. I stopped for a moment. I thought: this sounds exciting. I need to record this tune right now!\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you hear the words \u2018down by the river\u2019 and immediately start humming one of modern gaming\u2019s most gorgeous earworms, you have the Bafta-winning Borislav Slavov to thank For Borislav \u201cBobby\u201d Slavov, it is not enough to just be a composer. The Bulgarian musician sees himself as a man who wears many hats: composer, music …<\/p>\n

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