Back when Lineage II was released I recall how the music impressed me. They used a real orchestra to record their score and it had so much atmosphere. Why am I writing about this? Carbine presents a video featuring the recording of the Wildstar orchestral score by Jeff Kurtenacker at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros studio.
Video
For me it makes a huge difference to have a good score for a game and especially if it comes from a real orchestra. This video shows Jeff Kurtenacker in action, enjoy!
Carbine Studios has 2 sample tracks for you to listen and download here, 2 more here (at the bottom), and the earliest pieces here.
Update!
Found quite a bit of Jeff Kurtenacker here!
Nice, thanks for the video!
OMG, lmao! This music is freakin‘ amazing. This game is rather unique. But
for some reason I get a little bit of Firefly from it and THAT is not a bad
thing. It looks like a Western Science Fiction with mega monsters. 1:49
really fits that so well! This game is looking amazing.
Woot, It was my drive to hear more of your work Jason, that led me to
discovering this game in the first place. You work in Vanilla WOW was the
reason I was/am so addicted to immersive atmospheres in not only WOW but
games in general. And music places such a massive role in that. Props to
you and keep up the great work.
so professional, amazing
Jeff is just amazing!
I continue to be impressed by the quality of creative assets for this game,
including the music. The compositions and the musicians both are amazing.
That guy’s living his dream, everyone seems to be. I hope this game becomes
the next big thing. 🙂
Yeah same here, music sounds really good. 🙂
<3
one of the first things i do in an mmo is turn the music off, after
watching this i will most likely leave it on in this game.
Here is the music that plays in the start of the video (0:15):
/watch?v=35P7Lamxpg8 yw
man… shut up and let me hear the music!
They should interview some of the players and see what they think about
game music, if it’s something they are passionate about or do it to pay the
bills 🙂 Seems like they are really engaged, must be awesome to be part of
such a group.
wish my pc could handle this game ;(
If the snippets we heard in this video are any indication, the music in
Wildstar is going to be epic.
The music makes my mouth water in excitement.
This just about brought a tear to my eyes. Great work!
so cool! love knowing theres an orchestra playing the music I will be
listening to in wildstar when I buy it in spring when you guys release
it! 😀 so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i would love to see more of this 🙂