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Damn, this piece is driving me mad. I don’t want to go down the route of “let’s add some taiko drum loops for the combat layer” …… heh! This used to be easy in the good old Nintendo cartridge days!

….. now I have a ten minute piece of music that will be my base layer for an ambient area, I need to write some more music that matches this piece so I can switch between layers depending on the action ….. hopefully!

Thinking about interactive music today, like in the good old Banjo Kazooie days. I think it might work, I’ll need to test it out a bit and see what happens …..

sometimes no matter what you do it just isn’t good enough is it eh ….. I mean ….. I try my best, that’s all you can do right!!!!!!!

Feeling thoroughly bloody miserable today for reasons I won’t disclose ……… bugger!

Actually writing some music today, it’s been a while ….heh! Trying to write an extra long piece, I’m up to ten minutes at the moment, I think I can squeeze a few more out!!

God I’m terrible at blogging!

Let’s see, what has happened recently. Well Reckoning is out of course and it’s sold somewhere north of a million copies so that’s good news, the soundtrack picked up some good reviews from movie music sites who’ve never heard of me or any of the games I’ve done which is also great. I was really trying to give the game a movie-esque quality in the music so it’s good that people picked up on that.

The DLC packs are selling well too, I’m hoping to sort out a way of giving the music away from these. Since none of it is on the CD I thought it might be nice to just let people download it, I’ll let you all know when I get some news on that.

So it’s back to work as usual …… heh!

Hmmmm …. let me see. So it’s pretty quiet here at BHG, lot’s of people are at GDC or on vacation. We’re all still waiting to see how “Reckoning’ does in terms of sales, so fingers crossed. I’ve had a couple of good reviews from bona fide film music score publications for the soundtrack which is encouraging. It’s quite funny when they say I’m a new composer they’ve never heard of …. heh …. I think I like it! Apart from that I think I might need to get back to doing some work …….!!!! I’ve got a few interviews to do over the next week or so, so I’ll post them up when they’re done.

If only I could speak a bit slower!

http://www.gamesradar.com/soundradar-episode-6-kingdoms-amalur-grant-kirkhope/

Here’s another interview I did with the nice people over at Square Enix Music Online

http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/grantkirkhope2.shtml