Grant Kirkhope

But the color, the character designs, the way people talk is like, hey, this originally started as a way to save memory, but we still have voices in here.

Apparently those are all jumbled up sentences of Grant Kirkhope, who is the composer, who's a great composer.

I love the music in this game.

Also did

track? Well, that was a little haunted melody by something I did not write down.

Oh, Grant Kirkhope.

You've heard that name before? Yeah.

Oh, Grant.

Oh, and you had more too.

But I'm a massive Grant Kirkhope fan, so this automatically gets a 7 out of 10 for the composer alone.

Um...

I had to look that up.

Grant Kirkhope.

I think we've heard that name before.

Did he

Inside Video Game Music, Episode 4.

Grant Kirkhope, Baelor, from the Kingdom of Amalur Reckoning soundtrack.

This is Disasterpiece, and you're listening to Inside Video Game Music.

Inside Video Game Music gives you a behind-the-scenes look into your favorite video game music.

On this podcast, I talk with game composers about their background, their composing process, and how their music fits into the game.

My goal is to learn and to share knowledge with a community of game players, creators, and any who are passionate about video games and their music.

In this episode, I talk with Grant Kirkhope, a longtime game composer who made the soundtracks for Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye, and Kingdom of Amalur Reckoning.

We also talk about writing for orchestras and his fortune to have his music performed by live orchestras.

But the way that they chose to do it, Worked really well and so anyway to carry on with that we then because we'd all always said from day one we wanted to take their themes and put it into the score and we told them about the the bar the the band about that and they were okay with that and so I Then went back to my composer who I was working with.

So that's Grant Kirkhope who actually funnily enough used to work at rare and At the same time I was working there.

And now he's living in LA.

So that was an amazing coincidence that we managed to figure all of that out.

Five different characters with all their own unique collectibles.

might be pushing a little bit, but at the end of the day, this game goes crazy with the amount of things that you can do with the composition of music, Grant Kirkhope doing his dang thing on the soundtrack, the different characters all having their own abilities, different personalities, different weapons, different instruments that they're playing for their ultimate moves.

This game is a truly special video game that oftentimes gets dunked on, donked on, whatever you want to call it, but It's a game that I think is truly special, and I'm shocked that it made it to the top 100, even with me putting it, what did I say, 32, 36? You had it 36.

36, crazy.

There we go.

I got my, uh, Banjo-Kazooie cartridge signed by Grant Kirkhope.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, yeah.

Goddammit, this is why I brought it up.

Uh-

Grant Kirkhope.

[laughs] Grant Kirkhope and Kevin Bayliss.