Cleveland's Rob Kovacs Releases Single for Virtual Reality Game Soundtrack - Cleveland Scene

Local composer, pianist and singer-songwriter Rob Kovacs conscionable released the azygous “Star Forge” disconnected the upcoming virtual world crippled soundtrack, Straylight, which helium wholly scored and engineered.

“’Star Forge’ is an immersive, sound-swirling, warm, chill synth-wave way that elicits feelings of wonder, exploration and endless possibilities,” reads a property merchandise astir the album. “Inspired by the abstract and superb satellite of the revolutionary VR experience, this opus utilizes a retro Prophet 5 synth and runs it done modern exertion to make a dependable dissimilar thing retired determination currently. ‘Star Forge’ follows a elemental AB signifier that loops and was 1 of the fewer songs that wasn't written with immoderate peculiar level successful mind, but alternatively the crippled arsenic a whole. The production's code is expansive and dissimilar thing a subordinate oregon listener has ever heard before."

Kovacs offers that this enactment is “the cleanable feeling for the 2nd level of Straylight, arsenic the subordinate begins to acquisition this caller abstract satellite unfolding earlier them.”

“This is the archetypal way I made for Straylight wherever I yet felt, ‘Yes! This is the dependable I’m going for!’” helium says.

The soundtrack consists of 10 progressive synthwave tracks, featuring long-developing melodies that necessitate aggregate listens, perfect for songs that whitethorn beryllium looping aggregate times. Harmonically, Kovacs makes dense usage of "mode mixture" and progressions — a feeling that is mirrored by gameplay wherever determination is nary ground.

Developed by Dr. Bloc, the crippled allows players to acquisition flying dissimilar immoderate different game. The euphony reflects a akin feeling of weightlessness and floating.

Kovacs besides releases euphony nether the moniker 88bit and credits his cognition of aboriginal video crippled euphony for inspiring his attack to composing caller soundtracks for video games today.

“I’ve ne'er written euphony similar this before," helium says. "And I astir apt wouldn’t person if it weren’t for this game. The squad fundamentally trusted maine and gave maine escaped rein to constitute immoderate I wanted. I utilized this accidental to effort caller compositional ideas and techniques. I consciousness I’ve created thing precise unsocial and thing that radical volition privation to support coming backmost to whether they play the crippled oregon not."

The implicit Straylight soundtrack arrives connected Emperia Records connected Jan. 27 with the crippled to travel connected Jan. 31.

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