his wisdom about the melody is so true, works very well in ark with the way he shapes around the main theme (i've only played ark so idk about the other games)
One hell of a task, to uphold the Great mantle of Halo... but he hit the fucking Bulls-eye! Tears in my eyes as I heard it for the first time. Also Ark Sountrack is definitely in my top few that I listen to. Entraps the scifi, mysterious tone while also making it sound like a true Primal survival game. He has a long road of success ahead of him.
Dude!!! I love Coker’s work, Ori soundtrack speaks to me deeply. But recently I’ve been listening to the Halo Infinite soundtrack and I’m loving the chorale. I had no idea it was Coker!
TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Gareth Being A Veteran/What Constitutes Being A Veteran 01:35 - Smoke & Mirrors Of Game Design 02:30 - Game Scores Vs Film/TV Scores 04:05 - VST Ethnic Instruments Vs Live Ethnic Instruments 07:33 - Underworld Track On Immortals Fenyx Rising 09:44 - Gareth Reasons For Using Orchestras 11:20 - Differentiating Yourself In Gaming Music 13:27 - Memorable Melodies Is A Lost Art 15:24 - Ginzo Tree Escape Sequence Music 17:05 - Implementing Music In A Game Correctly/ 18:29 - Gareth Debating With Developers Over Music Implementation In Ori Game Sequence 21:27 - Gareth Prefers To Implement Music In The Game Himself/Implementation Of Music 24:20 - Sackboy Music Implementation 25:09 - Scoring Halo Infinite/Living Up To Expectations 30:26 - You Cant Please Everyone/Referencing Older Halo Music 31:50 - Halo Infinite Composers Working Together/Collaboration 33:00 - Music Supervisors Role 36:17 - Being In Japan And How It Affected Gareths Approach To Composing 39:50 - Don’t Get Comfortable With Success/Communicating Your Ideas 41:20 - Japan Made Gareth Less Shy 42:15 - Gareth Is Unlikely To Return To Japan/Teaching Rugby In Japan 43:15 - Speaking Japanese/Japanese Game Companies 45:05 - Ori Putting Gareth On The Map/Working On Minecraft 46:54 - Working On ARK 50:00 - How Gareth Writes A Melody 56:02 - Doing Melody For TV/Film 59:08 - Composing To Game Visuals/Writing Process 1:02:05 - How Gareth Finds Time To Play Games/Gareth Doesn’t Play Multiplayer Games 1:05:29 - Gareth Watched Streams Of Will Of The Wisps After Release 1:07:28 - Monitoring Gamers To Gather Data To Make A Game Better 1:09:25 - Gareth Excited For Next Generation 1:10:06 - Possibly Scoring Assassins Creed/Dream Project 1:11:11 - Where To Follow Gareth Coker
