Evolve – Tomb Raider Composer Jason Graves Joins Team
Courtesy of the Evolve Blog, they have announced that BAFTA award-winning composer Jason Graves will be working on the soundtrack of Evolve. Jason Graves will no doubt bring some added tension and atmosphere to Evolve, especially when working on the likes of the rebooted Tomb Raider, Murdered: Soul Suspect, F.E.A.R 3, the Dead Space series and more.
But as seen in the interview taster below, Jason Graves has not only had great fun composing the soundtrack of Evolve, but also some unique and fun ways of sound sampling measures were taken. If you want to read the interview in full, then just click HERE.
Evolve will release for the PC, PS4, Xbox One on February 10th.
JG: One of the things I had in the original tunes that were taken out were some shakers. I know the word “primitive” was used in the beginning with the Monsters, but we turned away from that. So I was looking for alternative sounds that could convey that feel without having the same sound. One idea I had was taking a spare pizza box that I had sitting around the studio and using that. You know that little plastic table-thing they put in the pizza boxes? So I started rattling that around – after I finished the pizza, of course – and recording it through a guitar amp and pedals.
The samples sounded fine, but I had my headphones on and rolled across the floor to grab something and I hear [Jason creates this reverberating whooshing sound with his mouth]. It’s this cool, distorted, flanging sweep sound of the chair on the floor. I was like, “oh, wow – this I need to record!” So there I am rolling around the floor of my studio, in tempo to the music. Too bad I wasn’t recording video as well on that session…
So, yeah, I wound up putting all kinds of things through the guitar rig with the delay and the chorus and everything else. I did things like rubbing paper together, flipping through a phone book. This sort of stuff actually worked great for the Monster – it felt more organic and sci-fi with the right treatment and it’s the kind of thing you can’t get in the computer. It’s been recorded live, put through with physical pedals – all that.