Let's Listen | Rob Kovacs: Straylight

On a very special edition of Let's Listen, Bonus Stage features Rob Kovacs and and his original game soundtrack to Straylight.

Rob Kovacs is an award-winning composer, pianist, recording artist, music streamer and college professor. He has gained notoriety for his virtuosic note-for-note piano arrangements of classic video game soundtracks mainly from the original Nintendo Entertainment System under the name 88bit. Additionally, Kovacs has composed music for several award-winning short films, rock bands and most recently the critically acclaimed virtual reality game STRAYLIGHT - a revolutionary VR platforming experience.

STRAYLIGHT began as a Global Game Jam project five years ago where two game developers and three filmmakers came together to make a new VR game focusing on comfortable movement allowing players to experience flying. Kovacs as part of the film team was brought on to score the game. Only knowing the concept of the game and one simple graphic, Kovacs was tasked with composing and recording a track in two days that would reflect the player’s experience of floating and flying in VR space for the first time. Using a vintage Prophet 5 synth, he created the STRAYLIGHT title track - a slow-developing and ungrounded synthwave track, that is reflective of the unique experience that is the STRAYLIGHT game.

The STRAYLIGHT soundtrack consists of 10 progressive synthwave tracks. They feature long- developing melodies that require multiple listens, ideal for songs that may be looping multiple times. Harmonically Kovacs makes heavy use of mode mixture and progressions that never quite feel settled - a feeling that is mirrored by gameplay where there is no ground.

“I’ve never written music like this before. And I probably wouldn’t have if it weren’t for this game. The team basically trusted me and gave me free rein to compose whatever I wanted. I used this opportunity to try new compositional ideas and techniques. I feel I’ve created something very unique and something that people will want to keep coming back to whether they play the game or not.”

https://robkovacs.bandcamp.com/album/straylight-original-game-soundtrack

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