Shaun Chasin, who we interviewed last year for his work on Hektor, has just released his latest soundtrack. Quell, a first-person shooter developed and produced by Rubycone, ventures out into VR territory on the HTC Vive. The game has a unique design, and the accompanying soundtrack highlights the eccentricities of the game with a wide...
Shaun Chasin, a Canadian film and game score composer, graduated from Berklee and the University of Southern California in with degrees in television and film scores. After studying under composers like Garry Schyman and Bruce Broughton, Chasin has developed a sound that combines fresh, live instruments alongside synth sounds to create unique atmospheres to his products while maintaining a balance...
Psychological horror game Hektor comes with a score by Shaun Chasin and a performance by the impressive Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. The album, like the game, is short, clocking in around 40 minutes, but the content is carefully selected from a much wider range of music played during the game. The music of Hektor adds...
Hektor is a first-person psychological horror game where you enter a world that changes as you go along. Suddenly there’s a corridor there, next you know there’s a door. You need to uncover the mystery by finding clues and piece them all together. You play a former patient to HEKTOR, a now defunct, covert research...
The music, too, is dynamic, as is explained by Composer Shaun Chasin. They used a 40 piece string orchestra to give the soundscape some depth, but they also knew they needed to be able to construct an aural experience as varied as the visual one. “We created this score that is able to change itself...