Gatewars Soundtrack (Input appreciated)
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:05 pm
Hello people. I'm looking to bring a rather large project to the table, so before I begin, a little bit of background.
I've been out of the game now for a considerable time, my interest (as well as my time) for the game has waned significantly so I'm as good as done as a player. However, what hasn't deserted me is my appreciation for the lore of this place. The characters, the events, the concepts of the collectives we've all built over the years. It's a rich tapestry. I've just started an audio engineering course which will have me working on multiple projects of varying type, live recording, post production, Dolby mixing, mastering & game audio. Over the next 2 years (possibly three) these sort of projects will consume my life alongside work, and being drunk
One of the long term projects I'm hoping to complete over the 2 year period is a companion soundtrack to this game. I have multiple concepts in mind for various events/empires and perhaps even individuals.
Before i continue, disclaimer time
-Clearly this is a long term project, which may or may not be completed. As this is the only project i can work on with my equipment at home as well as take to the studio it's got a good chance. I must stress the studio based projects will have precedence as that's what my overall qualification will depend on.
- I'll be learning my music production software alongside everything else, so, initially quality will be suspect. I'll be trying to keep you all in touch with each version of the tracks So... Clint Mansell I'm not and early versions will likely not be great. But feedback from the community will be vital to this project.
-This is a fun project for me, but one which I'm hoping is of interest to the community. However if it doesn't take off or life gets hectic I reserve the right to bench this at any point.
Okay, so at this point in time I'm literally at point A. I'm a couple of months away from being able to get into the studio, and I'm still getting to grips with my software/hardware set up.
So, for the time being I'm putting this up to gauge reaction. What I'd like to do is ask your good selves for some input. Here's some question's i'd like as many people as possible to answer. This is open to anyone at all, and any alliance.
I've been out of the game now for a considerable time, my interest (as well as my time) for the game has waned significantly so I'm as good as done as a player. However, what hasn't deserted me is my appreciation for the lore of this place. The characters, the events, the concepts of the collectives we've all built over the years. It's a rich tapestry. I've just started an audio engineering course which will have me working on multiple projects of varying type, live recording, post production, Dolby mixing, mastering & game audio. Over the next 2 years (possibly three) these sort of projects will consume my life alongside work, and being drunk
One of the long term projects I'm hoping to complete over the 2 year period is a companion soundtrack to this game. I have multiple concepts in mind for various events/empires and perhaps even individuals.
Before i continue, disclaimer time
-Clearly this is a long term project, which may or may not be completed. As this is the only project i can work on with my equipment at home as well as take to the studio it's got a good chance. I must stress the studio based projects will have precedence as that's what my overall qualification will depend on.
- I'll be learning my music production software alongside everything else, so, initially quality will be suspect. I'll be trying to keep you all in touch with each version of the tracks So... Clint Mansell I'm not and early versions will likely not be great. But feedback from the community will be vital to this project.
-This is a fun project for me, but one which I'm hoping is of interest to the community. However if it doesn't take off or life gets hectic I reserve the right to bench this at any point.
Okay, so at this point in time I'm literally at point A. I'm a couple of months away from being able to get into the studio, and I'm still getting to grips with my software/hardware set up.
So, for the time being I'm putting this up to gauge reaction. What I'd like to do is ask your good selves for some input. Here's some question's i'd like as many people as possible to answer. This is open to anyone at all, and any alliance.
Does a gatewars soundtrack interest you and would you follow its progress?
Which gatewars events would you wish to see chronicled on the sound track?
If you currently represent, or previously represented an alliance you'd like to see on the soundtrack who were they and what do you feel defined the concept behind them?
If you have a gatewars character who you would like to see represented on the soundtrack, who are they and how would you define them?
Any other comments...anything at all?
By the very nature of what I'm trying to do, any events that are represented in a track will be subject to my interpretation of said event. For example I was around for the 2nd Server war, and to me it represented a culmination of political tensions between universal superpowers, and with it a sense of tension amongst every little corner of the galaxy we created here as in a lore sense, considering the concepts behind the alliances in question the line between Good Vs Evil was blurred. That makes for a tasty palette of tones to work from. This is the way I'm approaching this, each alliance, event and individual had a concept, an idea behind them. 
But, apart from that I'm not interested in making either a faux Stargate score or moving away from the focus on the events, entities & collectives that the community have created here. I think we have too many stories to be told to boil it down to this is the attack button music, this is the raid button music etc. 
