Yo! I’m Johnny Galvatron and I’m a person who works at Beethoven & Dinosaur. We’ve been working on our psychedelic narrative adventure rock opera, The Artful Escape , since the 2nd day of Woodstock in 1969 and today… it’s out. I can’t believe it. I’m thrilled, nervous, terrified, kooky, spooky, and in a dancin’ mood.
Shredding on your holographic guitar is a huge part of The Artful Escape and today, on our day of days, I thought I’d tell you a little bit about how we write, record, plus implement our face-melting guitar.
As Francis Vendetti strolls across a trans-dimensional wonderland on his journey to create a new stage persona, he can play his guitar at any time. This poses a few technical problems. How can you get a guitar, triggered in any time by the player, to seamlessly blend with the particular environment and the backing soundtrack?
The answer: we don’t. You do.
You ever heard of Dark Side of the Rainbow? It’s a bit of a legend… a myth, maybe. The story goes like this: If you start playing the Pink Floyd album, “Dark Side of the Moon, ” on the third roar of the MGM lion splash from the beginning of the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz, ” they match up.
Of course, they don’t really. It’s just your brain trying to make meaning between the audio in addition to visual. It’s sometimes called Pareidolia, which is the tendency to see something familiar or significant within an object or pattern. What we do is write a song that remains in a singular key, let’s say Eb. Then over that track we record tons of guitar, cut it up, edit it together, and continuously craft the pieces until they sound flawless against our backing tracks. Now, if we’ve done our job correctly, you can play typically the riffs anywhere as well as the player will associate their guitar running down chord changes, or harmonizing along with fleeting melodies, or reaching the peak in the crescendo that will seems predetermined… but it isn’t. It’s your brain acting as composer and listener at this same time.
We’re really pleased with how it all came out and hope you enjoy jamming as much as we do in the game. The Artful Escape is out now. Go play it!
Peace!
The Artistic Escape
Annapurna Interactive
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