Behind the Scenes: Empyrean Forge Expedition Music
Greetings, Adventurers!
The Season 1 — Fellowship & Fire OST is available now on YouTube, Amazon Music , and Spotify . To celebrate its release, we caught up with the Audio Team for a glimpse into their creative process. Listen to and learn more about the Empyrean Forge music below.
Bring your favorite tracks outside of Aeternum:
This Expedition features a fiery aesthetic and unique audio fitting for an ancient forge. Audio Director Jean-Edouard Miclot walked us through transitioning the Expedition’s themes into sound effects, instruments, and more.
“I saw an early look of Commander Marius,” said Jean-Edouard (Jed) Miclot. “There was a lot of fire everywhere and I was worried that he'd end up sounding too noisy. He had a metallic helmet with two big horns and held a large axe that kind of looked like he was from an 80's heavy metal band. His animations almost mimicked someone playing an electric guitar so I think I swore at this point and said, why not in New World?"
“I ran all sorts of metallic sounds through a bunch of guitar distortion units and recorded an hour's worth of electro-acoustic screams and slides that I used for his movements. It had a lot of attitude but Marius was still missing a voice. I looked at him closely and saw a face in fusion so I searched for metaphors from the real world. What could breath and evoke fire? I ended up using a Firefighter SCBA recording for his breathing which was kind of a cool nod to my favorite villain Darth Vader.”
“For his grunts and efforts, I used lion roars processed through a granular patch that I made in Kyma just because it sounded like a vicious beast trapped in a resonating metal cabinet. That did the trick!”
“After Marius was finished, I started wondering what
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