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[PJ156]

This is very much a personal choice so i'm not really looking for pointers here. More for sharing really.

 

Finding music for mods has taken me to some places I might not have expected. I find I prefer traditional forms of music in my mods over the stock music. though my choices for outdoor music have tended to be of typical fantasy stock. 

 

Here I have found this to be an excellent resource:

 

https://www.jamendo....al-aeon-project

 

If you can pick up anything that Tillman Sillescu has released for free then I think you will find it useful:

 

 

If any one wants them I have many TS tracks I took from Freesound before they started to charge. Tillman has worked on many major game titles and the quality of his work shine through for me.

 

I have also found myself drawn towards medieval music and use a lot in my mods. John Dowland in particular ....

 

This one I used for one of the combat sequences in "From This Come Strength"

 

 

I did ask for permission, honest I did.

 

But for properly free to use stuff John Sayles website is an excellent resource for renaissance music I have tapped time and again:

 

http://www.jsayles.c.../earlymusic.htm

 

Lastly I have come to appreciate the Madrigal as a form of music and use them in two ecclesiastic interior areas. Surfing for resources led me to the Philippine Madrigal Singers ... unlikely, I know. However, one their facebook page they refer to being asked to check the acoustics in Mont St Micheal. The result was recorded and made it to UTube. For that I am grateful. I have no area for this but maybe one day.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63SvibwhUNU

 

Meanwhile it's back to the 70's and 80's SKA and punk that normally inhabits my ipod.

 

Hope this helps to inspire.

 

PJ 

 

 

 

[GCoyote]

IMO symphonic music helps create a cinematic feel to a module, esp. when dealing with combat, extreme environments, and similar 'epic' content. 

However I really appreciate the medieval style for non-combat background sound in particular towns, markets, etc. 

[Tchos]

I remember your use of Flow My Tears, and liked it.    I have some extremely eclectic selections in mind for my next piece, which may raise some eyebrows, but I haven't decided for sure on using them.

[PJ156]

Eclectic is good if it fits the situation and tells you something about the mood or pace or the area.

 

The only music I have found never can be made to fit is heavy rock music or music that has a dominant piano sound, That instrument is lovely to hear but not in a fantasy mod IMO.

 

Glad you found flow my tears, that was a very specific route through that quest and I was not sure any would

 

PJ

[andysks]

Unfortunately I haven't played From This Comes Strength, but it makes me happy to see that you used Dowland as music, since I played most of his songs on classical guitar .

[4760]

I also found that Kevin McLeod (http://incompetech.c...free/music.html) has some interesting music. The range is quite wide, so everything won't fit, but as far as I'm concerned there's really stuff to use.

[Tchos]

Eclectic is good if it fits the situation and tells you something about the mood or pace or the area.

Yes, what I have in mind is all about setting the mood.  Definitely not just throwing in a favourite song that doesn't have anything to do with the setting.    However, at least one of them does feature piano, which leads to...
 

The only music I have found never can be made to fit is heavy rock music or music that has a dominant piano sound, That instrument is lovely to hear but not in a fantasy mod IMO.

 
Is it because the pianoforte wasn't invented until the early 1700s?  But the NWN2 main theme has a pretty dominant piano, and so does the MotB Mulsantir theme.

 

I'm not sure if Devil May Cry music counts as heavy rock, but I think I recall someone used something like that for the climactic battle in a module I played some years ago, with electric guitars and all, and it did give me pause at first, but I thought it worked after all.

[PJ156]

The piano is a great instrument and I think it works well in both those openings. Where I think it does not work is for an area. For me an area background need to settle into the background, to be heard but not to dominate. It's a subconscious affirmation of the game play to excite or relax the player as he traverses my world.

 

I don't have an absolute ban on the instrument but I rarely come across piano tracks which don't fill my head while I'm playing the game and make the whole experience unbalanced.

 

PJ