This collection of Beautiful and Dark Sound Designs will focus primarily on that genre known as Dark Ambient. Dark Ambient is an emotive composition style used to bring an ‘epic quality’ to cinema and gaming.

“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go.
Listening to something is an act of surrender.” (Brian Eno)

The Darker Side
Brian Eno is commonly hailed as the innovator of the Ambient Music style.

The darkest of Eno’s early works is ‘Ambient 4 : On Land’ (1982). It is a collage of electronic and acoustic sounds that creates a mysterious otherworld landscape.

Where Ambient Music is concerned with background textures and soundscapes (oftentimes experimental in style) – Dark Ambient as a genre is characterized by greater diversity of musical form.

“Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.” (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

Welcome to part 2 of our top 20 list ‘o’ Games Themes.

Great design – sound and visual – is an asset that pays great dividends to developers and users alike. The success of an epic game is built upon an epic soundtrack.

We have searched for those themes that stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

The Good Muse-ic.

Diablo Soundtrack – Tristram Village

A real classic score in the world of gaming

“War. War never changes.” (Fallout)

The lines between film and gaming continue to blur

A theatrical soundtrack is essential: gaming is an immersive cinematic experience. Appreciation for video game music as an art genre continues to grow

The melodies and themes featured below are all thoughtfully resolved pieces of music, that offer listening pleasure beyond the context of the game for which they were written. Today, it is quite common for such music scores to be performed by philharmonic orchestras around the world

We offer these top soundtrack in no particular order, but as a collection of well crafted gaming themes for your listening pleasure

• Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) Main Theme

  Very beautiful music written by Angelo Badalamenti

Iconic is as iconic does

Beauty is in the ear of the beholden

Iconic :

• The most memorable / least forgettable
• A moment long remembered
• In yer brain

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

George Bernard Shaw



Artwork title: ‘If less is more’

The expression ‘Less is more’ was first written by poet Robert Browning in 1855.

The term was popularized by twentieth century german-american architect Ludwing Mies van der Rohe as a motto for his minimalist design credo.

‘Less is More’ elegantly describes the conscious pursuit of reductionism (‘less’)- where simplicity itself is a virtue. Meaning and beauty is sought in fundamentals and excess strictly eliminated. A greater experience (‘more’) ensues as truth and beauty is readily revealed in the absence of clutter.

Sound Design and ‘less is more’: How do we learn this simple lesson with regard to composition? What are some examples?