February 2021 – 1st Anniversary
Welcome to the Diary entry for February 2021 when Music of Ice and Fire celebrates its first anniversary, or the closest thing to an anniversary, since there won’t be another February 29th until 2024. The website, as it stands today contains 1 hour of music split into 39 tracks, all available in the Library. 18 … Continue reading February 2021 – 1st Anniversary
January 2021 – Deadlines
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams Welcome to the first diary entry for 2021! As the quote above suggests, my deadline for this month flew right by me. I had planned for this month’s entry to be all about knighthood and the kingsguards, tying it … Continue reading January 2021 – Deadlines
December 2020 – Picking up where I left it
Welcome to the last diary entry of the year! Last month I talked about changing course and focusing more on non-character music for a while. Writing for locations, societies, objects, and concepts is turning out to be harder than I thought but progress is being made, though such is my luck that right now it … Continue reading December 2020 – Picking up where I left it
November 2020 – Not just characters
Welcome to November’s diary entry! For some time now, I have had the feeling that to write music for characters has been getting harder and harder. After a whole year working on House Stark, Targaryen, Baratheon, Lannister, Tully, Martell, Tyrell, Greyjoy… I am convinced I need to take a step back and let the creative … Continue reading November 2020 – Not just characters
Octber 2020 – Leitmotif Family Trees
Welcome to October’s diary entry. This month has been a very difficult one in the writing department. With every step I have taken forward I seem to have, somehow, ended up two steps back from where I started. Every little bit of music is scrutinized for consistency against an ever increasing amount of music, as … Continue reading Octber 2020 – Leitmotif Family Trees
September 2020 – Writing is Rewriting
Hello and welcome to September’s diary entry. This month’s update will be on the briefer side as there are some bigger updates simmering in the back-burner that need more time to finish cooking. With that said, this month House Tyrell has been updated with Margaery Tyrell’s leitmotif and House Lannister with Tyrion Lannister’s leitmotif. One … Continue reading September 2020 – Writing is Rewriting
August 2020 – Instrumentation
Welcome to Ausgust’s diary entry. Plenty of new music has been uploaded to the website this month that won’t be covered here as it would make this entry way too long, so you can check for yourself the themes for Arya Stark and Bran Stark over at House Stark’s page; Stannis Baratheon’s theme which has … Continue reading August 2020 – Instrumentation
July 2020 – Website update 1.2
Welcome to July’s diary entry. This month there has been a lot of effort into beautifying the webiste, expanding onto other platforms and of course new music. A nicer browsing experience Last month there was a significant overhaul of the website in terms of tracks but now it was time for a more obvious overhaul … Continue reading July 2020 – Website update 1.2
June 2020 – Website update 1.1
Welcome to June’s entry of my diary. This month’s update has been massive but it fly under the radar of most people since it involves very little new music. How is that possible? Well, with some very minor exceptions, all the audio tracks and accompanying images have been remade to better suit the tonality framework … Continue reading June 2020 – Website update 1.1
May 2020 – It’s all about the leitmotifs (2)
Welcome to May’s diary entry. This week I’m publishing the page of House Tully with two tracks from Catelyn, but the real course is an expanded discussion on leitmotifs after the appetizer from last month’s update, as I want to delve into the importance leitmotifs will have in the music of the project, especially Notes … Continue reading May 2020 – It’s all about the leitmotifs (2)
April 2020 – It’s all about the leitmotifs
Welcome to April’s update. This month is dedicated to leitmotifs of great houses of Westeros. After last month’s quiz I received some feedback asking how on Earth was anyone suppose to guess what each track referred to what character based on a brief and cryptic title. Yes, I must admit that I underestimated how new … Continue reading April 2020 – It’s all about the leitmotifs
March 2020 – A Music Quiz of Ice and Fire
For the second update to the website I had in mind a mix of writing and new music in equal parts. Now, with the current situation most people are (wisely) choosing to stay at home and find whatever means of entertainment they can, so I asked myself if there was anything I could do to … Continue reading March 2020 – A Music Quiz of Ice and Fire
February 2020 – Inception of the Project
Welcome to Music of Ice and Fire. I’m Maester Ludwig and I’m here to break the 4th wall and talk a bit about this project, how it came about and what to expect. It all began a few years ago when a friend asked my opinion on a particular musical theme that served as the … Continue reading February 2020 – Inception of the Project
