Spencer Doran - Season: A Letter To The Future video game score

It should come as little surprise, then, that Season: A Letter To The Future sounds like few other video games (although fans of Doran’s previous output will feel at home with its typically artful compositions). Warbling woodwinds, plaintive piano, and chiming vibraphones accompany the player as they explore a picturesque valley on the cusp of an unnamed cataclysm. However, in contrast to most games, Doran’s score bleeds into the environment itself to the point where diegetic and non-diegetic elements become essentially indistinguishable. Sometimes this occurs through instruments found within the game world (an organ that sits atop a teetering cliff, for example); at others, it is through the sound of nature itself (“In-game wind that is pitched to double the melodic lines of the score,” explains Doran). The magic is in how enveloping the audio feels, the way it delivers so expressively on the medium’s dimensional possibilities. ~ Bandcamp