It is my privilege to have the opportunity to speak with Halo Infinite composer, Curtis Schweitzer, and ask him about being a composer, working in the games industry, shed some light on the musical DNA of the Halo franchise, and more!
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Chapters (except the chapters don’t work):
00:00 Intro
01:29 Background as a composer/musician
02:38 Compositional process
06:55 Orchestration for Halo Infinite
10:06 Workflow with three composers
10:59 Finding the Halo sound
12:52 Recording sessions
14:04 Choosing a key center
16:13 Cortana mystery chords
18:16 Thanks, Curtis!
18:38 Outro
Credits/Links:
“The Making of The Halo Infinite Announce Trailer | 343 Industries Social Stream” via HALO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTreFoLAufw
“Chucklefish Plays Starbound: The Road to 1.0!” via Chucklefish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hjbj0rrqw
“CURTIS SCHWEITZER’S REVERIE” via Halo Waypoint: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/curtis-schweitzer-s-reverie
Curtis’ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/curtisschweitzer
Tim Davies’ site: timusic.net
“Halo Infinite – E3 2019 – Discover Hope” via HALO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogGAbjpgDYY&t=256s
Music used (in order of appearance):
“Blue Straggler”, Starbound Soundtrack, Curtis Schweitzer
“Interstellar Rift”, Interstellar Rift Soundtrack, Curtis Schweitzer
“On the Beach at Night”, Starbound Soundtrack, Curtis Schweitzer
“Reverie”, Halo Infinite Soundtrack, Curtis Schweitzer
“Luck”, Halo 3 Soundtrack, Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Intro/Outro music:
“A Walk in the Woods” (ASCAP) written by Mike Salvatori and Marty O’Donnell
Original arrangement by TravellingHalo
Produced/performed by Zacarra Kim/itsthatkidzak
Zacarra’s links:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6q…
https://www.instagram.com/itsthatkidzak/
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That walk in the woods intro is fire fire fire
This elevated my breakfast
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Nice man!
This is such a great interview. You being an actual musician immersed in theory and more classical processes gives your questions a huge edge over your average Halo YT channel, not that there's anything wrong with conducting an interview without a musical background! It's just good to finally get this perspective on Curtis' work
Amazing!! Thanks man
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Seems like we've got another awesome Halo-tuber. Great interview, thank you!
You made it into Halo spotlight! Congrats!
Halo is going to be great this year. This guy reinforced why I'm hyped for infinite.
Wow, this video was excellent! Definitely worth a subscribe. Can't wait to check out what else you have on the channel. Great interview!