Catherine Spencer (of gamepeople.co.uk) melted my heart, literally: “A Winter’s Dream sets us up for forthcoming disasters and sets out Alanko’s stall – a sweeping epic backdrop to play against. Although never becoming choral, these recreate similar emotion to Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings soundtrack.” She manages to mention both Howard Shore and Petri [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
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Wired & Alan Wake score
One of my all-time favorite tech magazines has written kind words about the soundtrack I’ve composed. Read the whole Wired magazine story here.
We, both Remedy and myself, have been humbled by the warm welcome we’ve encountered. Although this isn’t any news for most of the people, I’m currently recording several ambience cues for the [...]
May 14
More Alan Wake compilations
The Alan Wake main themes compiled into one. Again, spiced with feeling-arousing male speech destroying the overall mood once a minute.
Alan Wake Theme compilation by alanko
And then, for something completely different – an action cue compilation:
Alan Wake Action Cue (compilation) by alanko
Again, if you feel [...]
May 14
Excerpts from Alan Wake soundtrack
I put up a few compilations from Alan Wake soundtrack (thanks to Remedy Entertainment for kind permission), and will release them one by one. There are three tracks to listen to: Action, Mood and Themes – the names should be self-explanatory, I guess. Please note that these tracks shouldn’t be listened as whole pieces, instead [...]
May 13
Alan Wake music ratings
It really, really makes one humble to notice someone else digs what you’ve done with your heart bleeding. Seems that “Alan Wake” is a springtime black horse in the audio/music field as well.
Gamescares.com: “The volumetric fog, light, amazing sound design and of course the absolutely incredible soundtrack Petri Alanko has composed for that game, really [...]
May 09
An interview
Game-OST recently did an interview of yours truly, titled “Interview with Petri Alanko – Alan Wake soundtrack composer!” in which I actually managed to sound even more talkative than I really am.
It was a lot fun to dig deep into questions and some of them really made me think the whole process of composing as [...]
May 03
It’s been a while…
As I mentioned in my last post, it takes balls and guts to maintain a blog. I haven’t forgotten mine, but there’s been too much to think about. Now that everything’s done, I guess I’ll have some time to write a few things here.
But first I suggest you go and check this. Mainly because it’s [...]