Control Resonant composer says it's his duty to 'represent the story,' but sometimes offers it 'in a different light, as contradicting the on-screen events can be really delicious'
- Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko says a musical score is "an emotional vessel"
- He explains that it's his duty "to represent the story in the most beautiful light possible"
- Alanko adds that the music "must be able to exist by itself, without the game and the story"
Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko thinks of a game's musical score as another way to tell the story, and it's his job to do that, even if he sometimes takes some creative liberties.
"In my thoughts, a score is what one might call an emotional vessel - or a tray for the story," Alanko told TechRadar Gaming in an interview about Remedy Entertainment's latest action game. "My duty is to represent the story in the most beautiful light possible, to help drill the ideas and the vision into the heads of those who experience the events."
The composer compared it to his band,...
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