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Radio 3,6 mins

Jessica Curry on the mind-boggling complexity of writing music for video games

The Listening Service

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Tom Service quizzes the award-winning composer Jessica Curry about her remarkable, responsive and generative score for the game Everybody's Gone To The Rapture (2016). This is a clip from an episode of The Listening Service that asks: How does video game music actually work? Click through to hear more (from 29 April 2018). Walk-through still from Everybody's Gone To The Rapture via The Chinese Room.

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