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Ludwig

by Spor Tranquil

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Title Screen Theme 02:55
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Studying Aeronautics in Manchester - 1908 04:00
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Moving to Cambridge and Meeting Bertrand Russell - 1911 02:48
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Writing the Tractatus Philosophico-Logicus during Wold War I 03:25
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Cruising at the Prater - 1919 04:00
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Teaching in Otterthal - 1924 02:45
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Designing Door Knobs for Haus Wittgenstein - 1926 02:43
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Teaching in Cambridge to Avoid Deportation - 1936 04:51
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L'idée derrière cet album fut de créer une bande-son pour un jeu vidéo fictif, sorti à la fin des années 1980 sur NES, basé sur des étapes marquantes de la vie de Ludiwg Wittgenstein, le philosophe viennois. Le projet de jeu aurait été partiellement financé, mais finalement abandonné car son échec aurait semblé inévitable: qui aurait acheté un jeu aussi élitiste ?
Une autre idée était de pousser l'illusion jusqu'à avoir des captures d'écran de ce à quoi le jeu aurait ressemblé, donc de créer l'univers graphique. Le temps et mon caractère dilettante en ont décidé autrement... le jeu ne verra pas le jour même pour les captures d'écran. Pour reproduire une bande-son de jeu NES j'ai utilisé le tracker DeFleMask qui émule les soundchips des vieilles consoles: NES, GameBoy, MegaDrive, SuperNES etc...
J'ai aussi là encore triché car j'ai aussi utilisé VCV RAck un émulateur de synthétiseurs modulaires...
Le résultat est ce qu'il est... Je suis très loin de Ben Daglish, Rob Hubbard ou encore Nobuo Uematsu mais bon voilà !

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The idea behind this album was to make a soundtrack for a video game that could never be released for obvious reasons: it would have been a failure. Using DefleMask to reproduce the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System sound chips, the point was to make believe that the game was almost ready but that the developers finally failed to defend the game to the investors. Who could have bought a game about some of important parts of the life of one of the most important philosophers of the XXth century ?
Anyway, I also wanted to create a game that would have helped me make the screen captures that you would find on the cardboard cover of the NES cartridge.
Time and my dilettante character decided differently. Also another reason is that some of the tracks were made with VCV rack, which is not exactly the same as the 8-but sound engines...
Anyway enjoy this potential soundtrack and maybe learn about Ludiwig Wittgenstein...

All tracks were either with VCV Rack or DefleMask, all freewares. Some final effects were added with Reaper, also a freeware...

I am no Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish or Nobuo Uematsu but here it is !

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released March 30, 2022

All music was made by Spor Tranquil using DefleMask and VCV Rack. Thanks to Binary Digit for pointing out these tools.

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