I’m GMing a Blades game with a bunch of Shakespeare actors from college and elsewhere – it’s wild, watching them play is a frigging delight – and I like to write original music for games I GM. These are the two first tracks I’ve written:
I’m working on a bunch more tracks for my friends but wonder 1) if people would have any interest in a Blades EP designed to be used as background for play and 2) if people have suggestions for scenarios or moments for which they’d like to have music.
Having fun thinking about it, thought I’d throw it to the community.
These are FANTASTIC. I would definitely be interested in hearing more songs.
As for suggestions:
Something longish and subtle that can be looped for the downtime phase
Something ethereal and strange for scenes with ghosts and/or demons
Something that the rich and fancy folks would dance and socialize to when the crew inevitably sneaks into their party
Also, and I acknowledge that this is a bit off-topic, but I would love to hear more about a bunch of Shakespeare actors playing Blades. That sounds incredible.
I totally agree about some longer, loopable tracks. I’ve got a couple that I used last session, I just want to extend them a bit! I’ve got a high-class decadent waltz I’m working on, but need to do more ghost stuff. The closest I did was a track called ‘Electroplasmic Rail’. I’ll maybe post some more as I feel like they’re good enough.
The group is awesome. They’ve come up with a great bunch of characters – a masochistic, anarchist pugilist (say that three times fast!) whose vice is getting the shit beat out of him in the fighting ring; a flamboyant bohemian spider who is capable of being both charming and ruthless; a disowned nobleman desperate to get back into his family’s good graces; and a former field medic who loves tinkering with alternative medicine. It’s fun to just let them loose to roleplay.
An update: I’ll probably make another post about this when I have the art and everything, but I’m gonna be releasing a full album of music I’ve written for our game. Current plan is to title it LEVIATHAN IN THE HARBOR: MUSIC FOR A HAUNTED CITY so it can be used generally in games in the style! The plan is to have ~13 tracks, with a variety of ambient tracks and combat tracks etc! I hope it’ll be useful for roleplayers. It’ll be available to stream and I guess to buy if people do that anymore
I really like the tracks you’ve posted (and I’ve bookmarked your YT channel) - if you do release the album on Bandcamp (or wherever) I’d happily pay for it!
UPDATE: The album now has an official release date! LEVIATHAN IN THE HARBOR will go live on spotify, amazon, apple music, and the other corporate megalith spaces on February 21st at 11:30 pm (right after our game of The Contraband finishes on twitch )
I’ve been asked about rights to use the music in streams and on youtube – given that this is distributed by Symphonic, this might be a little more challenging than I originally anticipated. My ideal situation is that anyone who buys the album can use it in a stream as long as I’m credited – I’m going to investigate with the distributor how I can do that conveniently.
Ted! It’s me Greg Soper! So fun to see you on here. Very excited to listen to this - and watch you stream the game - just had to express my pleasant surprise.
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