Welcome all you cute foxes! This episode I am joined by Lifeformed and Janice Kwan, the composing duo behind the outstanding soundtrack of the indie darling Tunic. We discuss their working process, how a vacation to Taiwan became a permanent residence change and what breakfast essentials nourished them to compose a 60 track soundtrack. 

Furthermore, we discuss what it was like to work 7 years on a soundtrack, how they both come up with track titles and I get to lose a couple of potential sponsorships while asking about their hardware issues over the years.

Time – Topic Discussed:

0:00 - Intro

03:50 - Guest topic: Convenient store experiences

10:53 - The process of coming up with a song

23:45 - Warm up for making music

25:03  - Coming up with music ideas

28:41  - Finishing a track vs. working on multiple at the same time

30:10 - Going back to older tracks an re-doing them

35:25 - Swapping tracks

38:00 - Being worried about the game

41:00  - Coming up with new music

45:25 - How the environment impacted the music

48:20 - Being inspired by Chrono Trigger

50:55 - Coming up with track titles

53:35 - The food that is now associated with Tunic

54:40 - Finding your own voice

56:42 - When is a track done?

01:00:25 - Stopping yourself from crunching 

01:04:57 - Dealing with hardware problems

01:09:50 - Mixing

01:12:50 - Writing instinctual 

01:15:49 - Doing remixes

01:19:29 - Outro

Things mentioned on the show:

Podcast episode with Felix Kramer

The Tunic Soundtrack

Tunic Shop Theme (My Favourite Customer)

Redwood Colonade track of the Tunic Soundtrack

Secret of the Forest track of the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack

Janice Kwan x Gardener EP

Ocean Glaze track of the Tunic Soundtrack

Social Media:

Lifeformed

Lifeformed on Twitter (@lifeformed)

Lifeformed on Bandcamp

Lifeformed on YouTube (Lifeformed)

Lifeformed’s Homepage

Janice Kwan

Janice Kwan on Twitter (@alsojanice) 

Janice Kwan on YouTube (Janice Kwan)

YOU ME AND THE INDUSTRY

YOU ME AND THE INDUSTRY on Twitter (@youmeindustry)

Dorian on Twitter (@DorianChou)

YOU ME AND THE INDUSTRY on Instagram (@youmeindustry)

Dorian on Instagram (@dorian.chou)

Intro/Outro by FreshMcZone

Artwork by Thomas Martin (Instagram: @thomas.martin.martin)