![]() ![]() I wanted to keep the instrumentation light, focusing just on the melodies & a bit of accompaniment. I’ll get into the differences between the two later on, but for now it was important to establish both themes out the gate since how they play between each other became the heart at the center of the soundtrack. I wanted the title screen to reflect the themes of both major characters: Chicory in the first half, and Pizza in the second. It was such a perfect little painted intro, so I wanted to give it an arpeggiated flourish, in this case a major 7 chord with the 9th hanging out there at the bottom. I originally wrote the beginning of this track to accompany the animated title screen swoosh as it comes in. The album cover for Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Original Soundtrack), painted by Alexis Dean-Jonesįeel free to check out the Chicory soundtrack on your service of choice if you’d like to listen along as you read through these liner notes! Blank Canvas Context means a lot, especially for the connections between melodies and the narrative, so check out the game if you want, first! These notes will still be here when you’re done ❤ But full disclosure, there will be spoilers in these liner notes. Maybe we’ll get into that a bit, as we go. It feels a lot like the legacy of the Wielders. I think a lot about western music theory. I didn’t want things to feel childish, but I did want the music that accompanied the entry into a game about pure creativity to start from one place with plenty of room to grow. Relating that to music got me contemplating my own memories of learning music: playing to colored dots on my toy piano, playing recorder in elementary school, singing solfege in choir. No real sophisticated tools, just a palette and ideas. It evoked a lot of memories of doodling in MS Paint. When I first started thinking about the music for Chicory, there was just a prototype: a little dog in a blank room that you could paint. Composing for Chicory - Motifs & Memories ![]()
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