{"id":16113,"date":"2024-10-04T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/we-were-only-slightly-influenced-by-the-cantina-music-the-underworld-sounds-of-star-wars-outlaws\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:38:17","slug":"we-were-only-slightly-influenced-by-the-cantina-music-the-underworld-sounds-of-star-wars-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/we-were-only-slightly-influenced-by-the-cantina-music-the-underworld-sounds-of-star-wars-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music\u2019: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys\u2019 chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear<\/p>\n

Have you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars\u2019 desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in the casinos on those Las Vegas-like planets? What do the merchants and miscreants of Tatooine listen to when they\u2019re not working the moisture farms or fending off Tusken Raiders? Pondering questions like that has been Cody Matthew Johnson\u2019s life for the past few years. The composer and artist has flirted with video game music before, with credits on Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Bayonetta, and the cult indie Kurosawa-inspired side-scroller, Trek to Yomi. But for Ubisoft\u2019s Star Wars Outlaws, he was tasked with making music for its seedy criminal underbelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a limited scope of in-world musical expression in the original trilogy, and this was our opportunity to explore music canonically during that time in a much wider scope,\u201d said Johnson, when I asked how much of a guideline the original trilogy provided for his work on Outlaws. \u201cThere are some \u2018rules\u2019, per se, to creating cantina music in the style of the original trilogy, and while this game does take place during that time period, we were encouraged to only be slightly<\/em> influenced by the original trilogy cantina music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nCody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys\u2019 chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear
\nHave you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars\u2019 desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in the casinos on those Las Vegas-like planets? What do the merchants and miscreants of Tatooine listen to when they\u2019re not working the moisture farms or fending off Tusken Raiders? Pondering questions like that has been Cody Matthew Johnson\u2019s life for the past few years. The composer and artist has flirted with video game music before, with credits on Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Bayonetta, and the cult indie Kurosawa-inspired side-scroller, Trek to Yomi. But for Ubisoft\u2019s Star Wars Outlaws, he was tasked with making music for its seedy criminal underbelly.
\n\u201cThere is a limited scope of in-world musical expression in the original trilogy, and this was our opportunity to explore music canonically during that time in a much wider scope,\u201d said Johnson, when I asked how much of a guideline the original trilogy provided for his work on Outlaws. \u201cThere are some \u2018rules\u2019, per se, to creating cantina music in the style of the original trilogy, and while this game does take place during that time period, we were encouraged to only be slightly influenced by the original trilogy cantina music.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys\u2019 chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear Have you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars\u2019 desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in …<\/p>\n

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