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=^._.^= projects with @lifeformed

Katılım Şubat 2012
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janice@alsojanice·
What an special special evening, it was so surreal to hear the music live and arranged so beautifully with so much flavour. And what a gift to meet so many of you afterwards 🦊💖 Ty ✨ Ty ✨ to the team that put it together instagram.com/p/DVBWpqsiN1u/…
lifeformed@lifeformed

Thank you everyone for coming to see the TUNIC concert. It was very special for Janice and I to meet so many of you in person. I just wish we had more time to talk to everyone. Hopefully we get more chances to show our works in person in the future. ❤️🦊

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janice@alsojanice·
@Hykus1605 @lifeformed hi! so sry about this! we're looking into it. thanks for letting us know.
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Hykus@Hykus1605·
@lifeformed @alsojanice Hi ! I'm happy you were able to sort things out. Still I can't listen the TUNIC OST on deezer (I had the album in my favorit ut I can't clic on it or listen to it). I hope it will come back one day as it is easier than on youtube. I just love that music.
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lifeformed@lifeformed·
The TUNIC OST (and others) are back online! The weeks of musicless uncertainty were worrisome. @alsojanice and I were lucky to have everyones patience & support. We want to show our thanks by releasing for free some of our initial piano concepts for TUNIC: janicekwan.bandcamp.com/album/tunic-pi…
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zpks piano@_zpks·
Flux is On is one of my favorite pieces of music, it feels new and exciting every single time. I even use it to test headphones and speakers haha
janice@alsojanice

Working on “Flux is On”, I had @lifeformed’s earlier sounds in mind-sounds of lightness, play, and innocence. This track uses arpeggiators which can have the challenge of sounding random or repetitive. The exercise for me is working with something that has a direction of its own.

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janice@alsojanice·
Working with arps reminds me of piano, guitar, and classical music bc while arpeggiators are associated with synths & modern music, arpeggio is a musical technique that’s been around forever. idk, i think that's kind of neat. lifeformed.bandcamp.com/track/flux-is-…
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janice@alsojanice·
Sometimes melodies can be bold & upfront, sometimes they can be more subtle, folded in notes between notes, inviting more of the listener’s own interpretations.
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janice@alsojanice·
Working on “Flux is On”, I had @lifeformed’s earlier sounds in mind-sounds of lightness, play, and innocence. This track uses arpeggiators which can have the challenge of sounding random or repetitive. The exercise for me is working with something that has a direction of its own.
lifeformed@lifeformed

Also, to make up for lost time, we also wanted to post some fun facts and tidbits about the tracks on TUNIC daily over the next week or so. So check back here for some of our thoughts during the 7 year production period of the game. Let us know if you have any specific questions!

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janice@alsojanice·
@DallasCrane_ thank you 🥹 that means a lot to hear ❤️ (it's very reassuring to hear for me, personally bc TUNIC was the first game project i worked on, so self-doubt was a constant companion)
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Dallas - 🎶GDC 2026 Concert!!🎶
Dallas - 🎶GDC 2026 Concert!!🎶@DallasCrane_·
@alsojanice Awesome. That’s one quality I really enjoyed about the soundtrack. The compositional ideas persisted but each world felt entirely unique and self-contained. Perfectly matched to the environment
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janice@alsojanice·
A little bit of both: for sounds recorded out-and-about, they’re mostly because we just like the sound and then bring home to experiment with. For sounds recorded “in studio”, they’re often because we’re looking for a specific sound or curious how they’ll sound in a track.
Dallas - 🎶GDC 2026 Concert!!🎶@DallasCrane_

@lifeformed @alsojanice How did you conceptualizar the sound palette? Did you say, “I need a synth sound, I’ll use these birds here to get it” or the reverse, you had sounds gathered and followed them?

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janice@alsojanice·
@DallasCrane_ we didn't have a template for sounds, we mostly went track by track working off of what each one needed.
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janice@alsojanice·
Another eg is "Descension" which plays in the space between the cathedral and the gauntlet battle. It samples a bit of the cathedral "Patron Saint of Astronomers" lifeformed.bandcamp.com/track/descensi…
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janice@alsojanice·
Sometimes, we’d be looking for a sound to connect spaces, so we sampled a track or elements of it to use in a related track. ie, for “in-between” places like “Ancient Futures” there are remnants of adjacent spaces like “Redwood Colonnade" lifeformed.bandcamp.com/track/ancient-…
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L@FlygandeApan·
@lifeformed Would love to see like a video of You two going through your process when making this OST!
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lifeformed@lifeformed·
We didn't use too many synths for the pads - our general process was to record samples of interesting sounds we'd come across (or even of other tracks), and then chop them up and layer them, and play around with various samplers, granulators, effects, etc.
Y2F0@whY2F0

@lifeformed One of the things that stuck out the most to me was the ambient pads in the OST, how did you make them? What VSTs/synths did you use ? Was there any insperation for them?

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janice@alsojanice·
@lifeformed I think what's been helping me ease into it is reframing creative ownership in my mind. Instead of whose ideas are better, whose passion is going to guide this section.
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lifeformed@lifeformed·
The most challenging track for @alsojanice and I was the main theme, To Far Shores. Making it was arduous, with over a hundred internal tracks, and we worked on it over 2 months. But the biggest challenge was learning how to untangle our conflicted feelings of creative ownership.
Sapper Morton's Miracle on Ice@buggzero

@lifeformed Which track challenged you the most to get it to the final release?

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janice@alsojanice·
@lifeformed Learning to be more direct was an important lesson while working on this track. It’s something I’ll be learning for a long time bc I feel like I’m essentially saying “I have confidence in my ideas” which is difficult when working with someone whose work I admire and respect.
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janice@alsojanice·
@lifeformed Working side-by-side means the process of getting ideas out, we do in front of each other. I feel quite vulnerable when starting any track bc "bad ideas" are a part of the process, so supporting each other’s flow is more important to me than editing for creative direction.
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