• Bear McCreary

    Composer for film, television and videogames. Credits include "Battlestar Galactica," "The Walking Dead," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Caprica," Step Up 3D, "The Cape," "Human Target," "Dark Void," "SOCOM 4," "Trauma," Wrong Turn 2, "Eureka" and the Rest Stop films. This blog focuses on the scores to "Battlestar Galactica" but other projects and various aspects of film music are frequently discussed.
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    Remix Me: The Dark Void Remix Contest Winner

    Posted by Bear McCreary on December 21st, 2009

    Capcom announced the winner of the Dark Void Remix Contest:
    Jesse G. (aka Main Finger), representing from my home state of Washington!

    Picking a winner in the Dark Void Remix Contest was not an easy task, because there were so many remarkable and worthy entries.  After carefully listening to the finalists, I think the prize belongs to the Main Finger Remix.
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    The Main Finger Remix, like the best of the entries, cleverly combined elements of my track with original material to forge a new musical identity.  However, it managed to structure these disparate musical puzzle pieces into a form that flows like a good song.  This piece never stays the same long enough to get boring and it never changes so radically that it feels like a montage of unrelated ideas.  And there are some fantastic ideas here:  the shuffle groove cut up from my taiko riff, the simple sine wave synth lines that bring to mind the 8-bit stylings of my own “Dark Void Theme (Mega Version),” the heavy-rock bridge featuring acoustic drums and electric guitar and the re-harmonization of the melody at the end of the piece, among others.  I especially appreciate the restraint on display in allowing the melody to rest cleanly atop the driving remix elements, giving the listener the melody to listen to.  I know I’m biased because I wrote that melody, but still… its fun to listen to it in such a new context!
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    While many of the submissions resulted in intense beats, The Main Finger Remix struck the perfect balance between remix originality and good ol’ fashioned musicality.  This is a piece of music I want to keep listening to.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m putting this thing on my iPod right now!

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    Check out the Official Announcement for a free download of the winning entry.  What do you guys think?  Pretty intense remix, right?  A big thanks goes out to everyone who submitted, especially those of you who sent in your ideas here to the blog. Congrats, Jesse!
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    -Bear

    Posted by Bear McCreary on Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pm.

    8 Responses to This Blog Entry:

    Love the mixes! Is there anywhere to hear all the entries?

    Left by Koloth on December 21st, 2009

    [...] the news, we are happy to announce Jesse’s recent winning of the Dark Void Remix contest, in which Bear McCreary chose his remix personally as the winner. Then we are immediately saddened [...]

    Left by Barrel Roll! #45 – “Space Glasses” – WingDamage.com on December 22nd, 2009

    So, Bear, which came first, Dark Void Zero or your Mega Version?

    Left by adg1034 on December 22nd, 2009

    adg1034… “So, Bear, which came first, Dark Void Zero or your Mega Version?”

    Well, I just put up an entry about DVZ and you beat me to it. I’ll go into more detail next month with a new entry about the making of this game, but the short answer to your question is my “Mega Version” actually came first, and helped inspired Capcom to make “Dark Void Zero!”

    Koloth… “Love the mixes! Is there anywhere to hear all the entries?”

    Not yet, but you can hear several of them here on my blog.

    -Bear

    Left by Bear McCreary on December 22nd, 2009

    That’s very cool. But I seem to remember you ever-so-slightly bemoaning the sheer amount of work it took to create 8-bit music in this day and age. Now that you’re doing a whole soundtrack in that style, though, has the creation aspect gotten any easier?

    Left by adg1034 on December 22nd, 2009

    I do believe that one is going into my ringtones folder. And I probably will purposefully not answer the phone. :-)

    Left by plainsong on December 23rd, 2009

    adg1034… “Now that you’re doing a whole soundtrack in that style, though, has the creation aspect gotten any easier?”

    Not really. In fact, when the game is released, I’m going to try to do a blog entry about how I did the 8-bit score.

    -Bear

    Left by Bear McCreary on January 2nd, 2010

    Capcom uploaded the two runners up too:

    ICEHOUSEINDUSTRIES REMIX

    DJ KABLE REMIX

    Check’em out…

    -Bear

    Left by Bear McCreary on January 12th, 2010

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