#austinwintorychallenge Here's my attempt at orchestrating Austin Wintory's melody, "Know Thyself", the main theme from the new game, ERICA. 

This is one of the largest orchestration projects I've worked on. I wanted to challenge myself to try arranging in an orchestral style. Please forgive me for using Musescore audio. I haven't spent much time working with actual DAWs :(

The arrangement begins with an ominous slow section, then a fast section, concluded by a call back to the piano solo at the beginning. Overall, I was going for a somewhat spooky/mysterious vibe, and took some ideas from various movie soundtracks, including scores by John Willams, Hans Zimmer, Tom Tykwer, James Newton Howard, and Jonathan Tunick. There's also some influence from Uematsu's soundtracks to Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, as well as various other video game and classical composers.

Please let me know what you think! Any orchestration/arranging advice is always welcome!

The score should be available soon on musescore.com after I do some tidying up.

Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/awintory/status/1162142207958061056
Check out Austin Wintory's soundtrack here: https://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/erica

Know Thyself arrangement - Austin Wintory challenge

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 1 - Overture.

Made in MuseScore. 
Score: https://musescore.com/tristanh/21daysofvgm-day1overture

Day 1 - Overture

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 2 - File Select.
Not fully developed but it's all I could come up with for today.

Made in MuseScore. Chrono Trigger Soundfont v2.0 by Xouman
Score: https://musescore.com/tristanh/21daysofvgm-day2-fileselect

Day 2 - File Select

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 3 - Prologue.
This is meant to be music to an introductory cutscene of an RPG. It was supposed to be a larger piece, but I ran out of time and had to reduce it to a 4-bar loop of the main ideas of the track.

Made in Musescore. Uses Secret of Mana Soundfont v2.0 by Xouman and  Super Mario RPG Soundfont by Mike Crain.
Score: https://musescore.com/tristanh/21-days-of-vgm-day-3-prologue

Day 3 - Prologue

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 4 - Home.
I was originally gonna write a busy town theme, but I didn't get started until late and I was tired so I wrote this instead. Inspired by one of my heroes, Jaco.

Made in Musescore.
Score: https://musescore.com/tristanh/day4-home

Day 4 - Home

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 5 - Town.

Made in Musescore.
Score: https://musescore.com/tristanh/21daysofvgm-day5-town

Day 5 - Town

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 6 - Overworld excerpt (WIP).
I didn't finish anything today so here's a snippet from an Overworld theme in the works.

Made in Musescore.

Day 6 - Overworld WIP

#21DaysofVGM Challenge April 2020. Day 8 - Short Bossa Loop.
Just a short bossa progression in Ab. It would probably work as a beach theme or shop theme or something.

Made in Musescore.


For Day 7, I started on a longer bossa in Db. I don't have the melody finished and I want to write it out for an ensemble of 10 or so. But I do have the chords pretty much ready, so here's a chord chart: https://imgur.com/a/pokhxQf

Tristan H Music