Interview with SOCOM 4 Composer Bear McCreary

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GameSpot has posted a new interview with Bear McCreary, composer for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs as well as numerous television series, including Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The interview touches on his inspirations for the SOCOM 4 score and how he worked to create something unique for the game.

 

Here's an excerpt on his experience creating the music for SOCOM 4:

 

"We scored the game with a live orchestra at Skywalker Ranch in Northern California, but the orchestra is not the primary focus of the music. The primary focus of the music is actually the Southeast Asian instrumentation, such as the gamelan orchestra. You hear taiko drums, you hear the shamisen, the biwa, the koto, bansuri, shakuhachi, just a wide array of instrumentation that has a really distinct Asian sound. And that was really exciting to me."

 

 

 

 

The full interview can be found right here.

 

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