South of Midnight’s full OST is now available on all major streaming platforms, as the creators detail the process of creating it on the Xbox Wire.
The South of Midnight OST is now available across various platforms including: YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Bandcamp. The Xbox Wire has an interview with its composer, Olivier Deriviere. Below are a few snippets about “This game is singing with the player.””
It’s rare for an action-adventure like South of Midnight to try something like this, and it’s rarer still for the songs created to have lyrics. This wasn’t just about creating a technical system for how music reacts to the player, but for how it told distinct stories around them.
“We started with story, of course,” says Fox. “We needed to know the story of the creatures first, which then spawned the narrative – our version of the [real-life] tales – which in turn spawned the lyrics. The lyrics and the narrative have to go hand-in-hand. We worked with the narrative team, and then we had to make sure Olivier had what he needed. I was very pleased with the content that we got – it’s always a worry at the beginning when you talk about making original songs, it’s not something that’s normally done. Anything could happen – and the most important thing was just to put trust in everyone.”
That trust meant that Olivier was given another unusual task – to create a concept song, in the same way a game’s production will often begin with concept art.
“This was the first time I’ve had to think of [traditional] songs within a game,” Deriviere continues. “How can we make a song happen, and how is this relevant? How do we arrange the song? The starting point was this concept song – and I had to sing it. And when the song was there, just by me, it was enough for David and Chris to be like, ‘OK, with that, we can go into production.’”
The full interview is fascinating and I highly recommend checking it out. Keep your eyes peeled on XboxEra closer to the game’s April 10th launch for our full coverage.
