In our second of two episodes focusing on the music of Borderlands 3, we follow up the last episode (104) with Borderland 3's musical director (and co-composer) for the game's score, Raison Varner.
Finishing Move Inc. is an award winning production duo composing music and sound design for games, television, film and ad campaigns. Principal composers Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White craft emotionally connected sonics for the world’s finest brands and media. They've written music for games such as: Halo Wars 2: Awaking the Nightmare, Fractured Lands, and Crackdown 3, which they talked about in episode 69 of The Annotator. Their sound design work can be found in many popular film and television trailers such as: Terminator: Dark Fate, HBO's Watchmen, Mission: Impossible Fallout, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Mad Max Fury Road. Along with Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann, Finishing Move also worked on the original score for the video game BORDERLANDS 3.
Borderlands 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game was released on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. It is the sequel to 2012’s Borderlands 2, and the fourth main entry in the Borderlands series.
In this episode FINISHING MOVE, composers Brian Lee White and Brian Trifon share their approach to writing music for a few select environments and boss battles from Borderlands 3. They talk about how employed a cello in a very unconventional way, how they wrote music that would allow it to scale up and change tone easily and the challenge they faced in writing compelling small elements for the game's interactive music system. Finally, they talk about working with and getting direction from music director, Raison Varner.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:47 - Conrad's Hold: Arrival
07:26 - Proving Grounds: Mystery
12:12 - Proving Grounds: Boss Battle
NOTES
Rainson Varner - Borderlands 3 (Ep. 104)
Finishing Move - Crackdown 3 (Ep. 69)
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Borderlands 3 was released by Laced Records on November 11, 2019, on digital and vinyl and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more about and hear more music by Finishing Move at their official site https://www.finishingmoveinc.com/ or follow them on Twitter: @BrianLeeWhite, @Trifonic, @Fnshing_Move
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