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I wrote it on guitar, made some scratch tracks of synths and drums and things, sort of worked it out from there. The song that plays through that radio you find is by The National, all the great turret stuff is by Valve composer Mike Morasky. But certainly I tried very hard to hit the moving target that was the story of the game, and a big part of that was playing it - it's really the only way to know how the player is going to feel by the end, what they'll know, what they'll expect, what will make them go aha!ĭid you write any other music for the game? Much later when it is less spoilery I can talk with more specificity about what things mean and what I think is going on in her head.
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I thought a lot about GlaDOS and her new experiences, what she was experiencing in this story, and there is a lot of new stuff that comes to light. Yes of course! I spoke at great length with the writers as they were finishing things up, and I had an early version of the game that I was able to play through. No, they created the game based on a song I made up based on nothing. I don’t know exactly when that will be, sort of going to play it by ear.ĭid you play the game before you wrote the song? So I want to make sure I’ve given people plenty of time to buy and play the game before I start forcing it on them at shows. It’s debatable whether or not the song contains actual spoilers, but it is certainly true that hearing it outside the context of the game will be a different experience. For now I think it’s a little too close to when the game was released. That version will go on the new album, I don’t know yet if there will also be a version of the Portal 2 song.Īre you going to play this song live at shows?Įventually.
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I am finishing up a new recording of Still Alive that I did in the studio with the new band, with guest vocalist Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara, keyboards from Loser’s Lounge superstar Joe McGinty, and professional thereminista Dorit Chrysler. But you’ll be sure to know when that happens, because I will tell you. I’m not yet sure what form that would take – the new song is so much more dependent on the arrangement and all the electronics that I haven’t quite figured out another way to make it work. In fact I have permission to do that from Valve. But this is not legal advice, and I certainly can’t give you (or refuse you) permission to do anything.Īre you going to release your own version with you singing, the way you did with Still Alive? In the past they’ve not seemed to mind all the crazy things people did with Still Alive, so if I had to guess (and I do), I would say that as long as you weren’t profiting from it in some way, they’d generally be supportive of fan-created stuff. Technically you would have to get permission from Valve to do something with it. This is under Creative Commons like all your other stuff right? So I cover this song? Create a parody? Make a video? I hope that Valve will do all these things though. What about Rock Band? A karaoke version? Source tracks for remixes? But I don’t know when that will be – I’ve heard them say “soon.” I happen to know that they’re planning on putting out a sound track, more than likely it will be on iTunes and Amazon and other places just like the sound track for the first Portal.
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The song and the recording are owned by Valve, so I’m not at all involved with what happens to it next. Not as of this writing, and I don’t know when you will be able to. I’m getting lots of questions on Twitter and in emails, so this is an attempt to answer some of them in one fell swoop. There’s no question that Still Alive was a hard act to follow, not necessarily because the song was so great, but more because the overall experience of the game turned it into such a well-known and widely appreciated cultural moment. Much to my delight and relief, people seem to be enjoying the song I did for Portal 2.