Dreadcentral. INTERVIEW: Olivier Derivière Talks Composing The Vampyr Soundtrack. Interview: Sinking Our Fangs into the Soundtrack of Vampyr with Composer Olivier Derivière. Recently we got the chance to have a chat with the composer of DONTNOD's promising-looking Vampyr, Olivier Derivière.
We got to discuss the manner in which he approaches his compositions, the intertwining of game development alongside the music, and how his passion for video games birthed a phenomenal composer for the industry. Let's dive in. Push Square: What influences did you look to when working on the soundtrack? Films? Other games? Olivier Derivière: Beside my own cultural experience, I didn’t look to anything else but the game. Vampires generally have a very specific sound associated with them dating back decades.
Yes, there are two aspects that are quite recognisable when dealing with vampires. What was the initial goal you sought to accomplish as far as a soundscape when you began the process of scoring Vampyr? [Alongside this] I composed the main melodies because I am the type of composer that loves to use thematic music to add some additional narration to the game. Thank you! Checking the Score: Interview With Vampyr Composer Olivier Derivière. Checking the Score is a feature about video game music, composers, musicians and tools of the trade.
Hardcore Gamer recently had the privilege of interviewing Olivier Derivière, an accomplished composer who has worked on video game scores for over a decade. His credits include scoring the Alone in the Dark, Remember Me and Get Even soundtracks, receiving notable acclaim over his work on Remember Me. We had a chance to talk about his process on the upcoming action RPG Vampyr, focusing on the use of specific instruments, integrating industrial sounds with more classical music and using his soundtrack to serve the vision of the games he works on rather than simply serving his own musical vision. [Hardcore Gamer] The soundtrack for Vampyr largely revolves around a solo cello (played by Eric-Maria Couturier). What inspired you to focus on this particular instrument?
New Remember Me trailer goes behind the music. How did I do : Remember Me - The Fight. Musical purpose: Olivier Deriviere on interactivity and the art of failure. There aren’t many video game composers more experienced than Olivier Deriviere.
Respected for his critically acclaimed work on Remember Me, Alone in the Dark, Obscure, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Freedom Cry – to name but a few – the French composer has spent over 10 years honing his skills in every corner of the industry, driven by a belief that great video games deserve equally great soundtracks. Fast forward to 2015 and it’s very much a case of mission accomplished. Still, it’d be naive to think the story ends there, and with every game developer, PR guru, evangelist, and music mogul in the business heading to San Francisco for the phenomenon that is GDC, we couldn’t think of a better place to catch up with the man himself. Side One: I’m interested to hear about the creative process behind your scores, particularly with Remember Me having such an experimental approach to audio. Remember Me trailer goes behind the music. Olivier Deriviere (Composer) - Interview. For more than a decade, Olivier Deriviere has been scoring music for video games.
He started studying classical percussions at the age of five and went on to study harmony, counterpoint and instrumentation under the guidance of Mr. Jean Louis Luzignant at the Conservatory of Nice, France. In 2000 he won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music to study film scoring and jazz. In 2003 he was hired by Hydravision to score their first game, Obscure, a survival horror game. More recently, in 2012, Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment asked Deriviere to provide them with a unique score to support their new game Remember Me, set in a futuristic and dystopian Neo-Paris where the memories can be digitised, shared and hacked.
Darren Rea: How would you describe your latest score for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry? Olivier Deriviere: I would say it’s an original score with elements of historical and traditional music from Haiti with lots of energy and emotions. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Freedom Cry Features Original Music Score by Olivier Deriviere. Celebrated French composer Olivier Deriviere (Remember Me, Alone In The Dark) has created a unique musical score for Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - Freedom Cry, the latest chapter in Ubisoft's historical action-adventure open world video game series.
Set in the Caribbean at the dawn of the 18th Century, Freedom Cry is a stand-alone story about Adéwalé, a former slave-turned-assassin who attempts to save his enslaved people in Haiti. To immerse players in the game, Deriviere's sweeping emotional score features performances by a world-class symphony orchestra as well as live drums, a cappella soloists and choir performed in the tradition of Afro-Haitian ancestral music. Olivier Deriviere Scores Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry. November 21, 2013 Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page.
Audio player code: sponsor: ST. PAUL, Minn. — The story of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Freedom Cry is about a Trinidadian man named Adewale in the early 18th century. Olivier Derivier and Remember Me on Top Score. May 24, 2013 Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page.
Audio player code: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Paris may be best well-known as the City of Lights, but the new game Remember Me turns it into a city of memories. French composer Olivier Deriviere had the opportunity to write music for a city that looked both remarkably similar yet drastically different for his home town. Olivier's Paris, in Remember Me, is Neo Paris in 2084, in an age where memories are stored digitally and shared around the world. This presented Olivier with an opportunity to create an acoustic score that's electronically manipulated. Olivier achieved this by recording a complete score with a full orchestra. In preparation for that task, Olivier did mock-ups of a sampled orchestra performing his score, then tinkered with it until he had an idea of what the finished product might sound like. Remember Me and the Aphex Twin connection.
Composer Olivier Deriviere drew on Aphex Twin’s surreal music when creating Remember Me’s soundtrack, resulting in an organic soundscape of glitches and risk.
Patrick Garratt reports. Aphex Twin Aphex Twin is the alter ego of Richard D James, a British musician famous for surreal composition and general oddness. His work is amazing and bizarre. Listen to his Analord series for free. Remember Me audio head Olivier Deriviere is a huge fan of British acid-techno act Aphex Twin, the alter ego of reclusive musician Richard D James. “He is ever the god of electronic music to me,” Deriviere told VG247 in Paris. Remember Me, Dontnod’s first game, tells a future tale of mental management and digital dystopia. “Usually music is very understandable,” he said. The artist is aware of the dangers of shirking trends.
“It’s a risk that creative director Jean-Max took, and I gave everything I could. He added: “Sometimes the music went too far. Lay off the drukqs, man “I gave everything I could. Music Spotlight: Remember Me Composer Olivier Deriviere - Features. Oliver Deriviere filters his formal classical background through a love of cutting edge electronic music.
This is evidenced in his innovative score for Capcom's Remember Me, which digitally manipulates live orchestral recordings into a score that feels remarkably fresh. We spoke with Deriviere about his musical background, video game composition, and musical inspirations. Talk a little bit about your background with music? Were you musical as a child? My parents are great music lovers and they were always listening to a large variety of genres such as classical, folk, pop, world music and many more - country music included!
Tell us about your formal musical education and how that informs your work as a game composer? At the age of five my parents sent me to the conservatory to study classical percussion and piano. Alone in the Dark Music Composer interview by Gamereactor. Horror Video Games - News and Information -Olivier Deriviere talks Alone in the Dark and more. Alone In The Dark Composer Q&A. Interview with Alone in the Dark Composer Olivier Deriviere—OCmodshop. OCModShop had a chance to sit down with Olivier Deriviere.
For those who aren’t avid game fanboys, Olivier is the composer behind the creepily beautiful music and atmospheric sounds on the new ‘Alone in the Dark’ video game. Other critics call the Soundtrack to AITD “The best game soundtrack of the year to date hits a choir full of right notes”. Oliver has also composed the soundtracks to other popular video games, including Obscure, Obscure 2: The Aftermath (reviewed here), Destination Treasure Island, Rally Championsheep, and others. Interview with Olivier Deriviere (November 2010) Olivier Deriviere is a French composer for video games, television, and concerts. He is best known for his choral-based scores to the survival horror series Obscure and Alone in the Dark, which were recently celebrated in concert at Nice.
Desiring to constantly push himself, he has been involved in lighter projects such as Destination: Treasure Island, Might and Magic Heroes, and Knock Out Party, as well as an opera and mass for live performance. Currently based between Paris, Boston, and San Francisco, Olivier Deriviere recently formed the cutting-edge music production company AMEO Productions Inc. with his sister Marion Deriviere. Interview with Olivier Deriviere – Alone in the Dark soundtrack composer. Interview with composer Olivier Deriviere. Hi Olivier, thanks for taking the time to do this interview.
First of all, tell us about yourself. How did you get started in the video game music business? That was years ago, when I was 14 (I'm now 29). Actually, it wasn't for games but for what was called demos. It was a piece of code and art that would show the potential of a group of passionate people. Let’s talk about Obscure 1 and 2. Obscure was my very first commercial game. Could you talk a bit about your general approach to the genre of horror?
I have to confess I'm not really into scary music. Interview de Olivier Derivière. LATEST PROJECTS - Olivier Deriviere, Video Game ScoringOlivier Deriviere, Video Game Scoring. Remember Me trailer goes behind the music.