BioShock
Features
Original
Score By
Garry
Schyman
AWARD
WINNING
HOLLYWOOD
COMPOSER
PROVIDES
CLASSICAL
MUSIC
PALETTE FOR
INNOVATIVE
FIRST PERSON
SHOOTER
VIDEO GAME
Los Angeles,
CA – July
17th, 2007 –
Film,
television
and video
game
composer
Garry
Schyman (www.garryschyman.com)
has created
the original
score for
the highly
anticipated
and
innovative
first person
shooter
BioShock
developed by
Irrational
Games and
published by
2K Games.
Composed in
various
styles of
early
twentieth
century
writing, the
music is at
times
chillingly
ominous and
at other
times deeply
beautiful
and
poignant.
BioShock is
developed
for the Xbox
360™ video
game and
entertainment
system from
Microsoft
and PC and
will be
released in
North
America on
August 21,
2007 and
internationally
on August
24, 2007.
“Garry
Schyman’s
work for us
was
incredible
from the
start in
every
possible
aspect,”
said Emily
Ridgway,
Audio
Director at
Irrational
Games. “From
his ability
to produce
and compose
amazingly
unique
orchestral
recordings,
all the
meanwhile
perfectly
accommodating
the peaks
and troughs
of game
development,
Garry really
deserves all
the praise
he gets for
the BioShock
soundtrack
and then
some.”
Ken Levine,
Creative
Director at
Irrational
Games,
attested,
“It’s kind
of hard to
imagine
BioShock
without
Garry’s
music. It
just
wouldn’t be
the same
game.”
BioShock is
the
"genetically
enhanced"
first person
shooter that
lets you do
things never
before
possible in
the genre:
turn
everything
into a
weapon,
biologically
mod your
body with
plasmids,
hack devices
and systems,
upgrade your
weapons and
craft new
ammo
variants,
and
experiment
with
different
battle
techniques.
You are a
cast-away in
Rapture, an
underwater
Utopia torn
apart by
civil war.
Caught
between
powerful
forces, and
hunted down
by
genetically
modified
“splicers”
and deadly
security
systems, you
have to come
to grips
with a
deadly,
mysterious
world filled
with
powerful
technology
and
fascinating
characters.
No encounter
ever plays
out the
same, and no
two gamers
will play
the game the
same way.
To immerse
players in
this
captivating
and haunting
world
Schyman
crafted a
complex
combination
of aleatoric
elements,
early 20th
century
writing,
musique
concrete,
traditional
tonal and
late
romantic
styles. The
score,
recorded
with a live
orchestra at
historic
Capitol
Studios in
Hollywood,
features
solo violin,
cello, and
piano
performances.
“BioShock is
a composer’s
dream
project; I
have never
been offered
such a
unique
palette to
write for,”
said Garry
Schyman. “I
really
pushed
myself to
create a
score that
truly
complements
the
extraordinary
experience
of BioShock
and
Irrational
Games
supported me
all the way.
I even had
the
opportunity
to write a
solo piano
work in the
style of
late
Rachmaninoff!”
Garry
Schyman is
represented
by the
Gorfaine/Schwartz
Agency. For
more
information
on the
composer
visit
www.garryschyman.com.
For more
information
on BioShock
visit
www.bioshockgame.com.