Boosey & Hawkes, a music publishing company, has interviewed our favourite composer, to talk about his work for Civ7.
They ask him about details for Live Gloriously, the change from 20 years ago with Baba Yetu to now, and his future plans.
An excerpt:
Ironically the Civilization team gave me way more creative freedom in the past than on this last game, Civilization VII. In the past, the development team would simply tell me how much music they needed and let me write what I wanted, which was the process that gave birth to Baba Yetu and Sogno di Volare (which are arguably my two best known pieces). With Civilization VII, we went through much more of a typical media composing process, where the developers gave me ‘temp tracks’ that they wanted me to emulate, gave me notes, asked me to rewrite sections, add additional texts, etc. It’s not the way your typical concert music composer likes to work, but those of us who have a background in media scoring are used to this sort of thing; and frankly I think it’s what has made me a better collaborator on things like opera and ballet projects.
You can read the whole interview here, and discuss it with us here.