I’m incredibly happy to share the main theme for Ambition: A Minuet in Power with you all!
This piece features the virtuosic oboe of Kristin Naigus (@field-of-reeds), best known for her work on ABZÛ, Tooth & Tail, and the just-released Moss. The main theme sets the stage for the game, raising the curtain and acting as an overture of sorts, foreshadowing the heights of grandeur you might rise to, while nodding to the lines and people you might cross to get there. It’s all wrapped up in a musical form that takes its cues in equal parts from period opera overtures and a Classical-era oboe concerto. 

This piece was an absolute pleasure to write. It allowed me to pull on the sounds and techniques of the late 18th century, taking influence from composers like Mozart, Haydn, and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges himself, Joseph Boulogne. This has been an absolute thrill, and I can’t wait to share more with you. 

Special thanks also to Andrew Steffen, Andrew Stern, Sam Bobinski, and Michael Scott Gebhart (@bassoonify) for bringing the orchestra to life.  

Hope you enjoy this taste of what’s to come for Ambition’s musical score!

Ambition: A Minuet in Power - Main Theme

Chicago-area based composer (for film, videogames, and concert hall), music educator, and voice actor.  I write epic, intimate, emotional, memorable scores for orchestra, band, piano, electronics, and percussion.  Check out my website at www.johnrobertmatz.com, if you like my music, check out my albums for sale at johnrobertmatz.bandcamp.com, and please comment on my stuff!  Inquiries can be directed to JRNMatz (at) Gmail.com

Bonnie Bogovich hails from Pittsburgh PA and is very excited to be part of this amazingly elaborate and collaborative project! A music composition and multimedia alumna of Duquesne University, Bonnie wears, and has worn, many hats throughout her creative career. 

Originally spending lots of time behind the scenes doing stage management and multimedia design, while also dabbling in sound design and music for museum exhibits, games, and independent film, Bonnie crossed over into lead performer territory during a writing collaboration with her long time musical cohort and collaborator Liz Rishel on an original multimedia and live stage hybrid production Evenings in Quarantine: the Zombie Opera.  Working on The Zombie Opera helped reignite her long time passion of singing in choirs which led her to pursue more performance endeavors with a variety of ensembles and opera companies. Later she combined her love of classical opera with popular video game characters by helping to produce a new opera hybrid project, Super Smash Opera, crafted with the MAGfest audience in mind. Performing and arranging music for Smash was extra fun, allowing her to write not only for people, but with puppets too (ex. turning Papageno Duet from Magic Flute into Pikachu language) and her favorite role to date is “Jigglypuff” aka “Puccinipuff”, because she “only sings Madama Butterfly”.

Many of this project’s collaborators and audience might know Bonnie best as the Audio Lead at Schell Games, through which she has worked on the music, sound design, human and creature voices for a variety of video games and interactive experiences including Water Bears, I Expect You To Die, Puzzle Clubhouse, Innercube, Sea World’s Race to the Beach, Mechatars, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, and Amplify Education’s The World of Lexica.  She is also currently working as a sound designer for the upcoming Homestuck Adventure Game titled Hiveswap by What Pumpkin. 

Bonnie is incredibly thankful to the Materia project heads for encouraging her to bring her passion for voice and puppetry to life with her arrangement of Waltz de Chocobo sung by Muppet-inspired chicken chorus. Her vocals can also be heard on Stephen Robert Froeber’s jazz arrangement of Costa Del Sol on May Claire’s Whitacre-esque arrangement of Life Stream. 

Music Composer and Sound Designer from Baltimore, MD.
Hear more sounds at youtube.com/neekofreeman
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Kyle G. is a Seattle-based composer who makes music for film and video games.

His scores enhance, support, or redirect the emotional content of the medium.

If you are a game developer, filmmaker, or media creator of any kind searching for the right sound for your project, Composer Kyle G. is your guy!

Ambition: A Minuet in Power - Main Theme

John Robert Matz