In the video above, music producers Galen Tipton and Holly Waxwing took this idea to the test by rescoring moments from three iconic video games\u2014Pikmin 4<\/em>, Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>, and Super Mario Odyssey<\/em>\u2014using nothing but the sounds from their Echo’s Story: Y2K Video Game<\/em> sample pack.<\/a> With each rescore, they walk through how they arranged and manipulated their sounds to achieve their desired creative results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Early games were really limited by file size,” Tipton tells us. “The choices had to be really intentional, and the music had to do a lot with a little. When I was making my loops for the pack, I took a four-bar section and looped it constantly while auditioning melody and rhythm ideas. I consciously wanted there to be four elements at most at any given time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It pushed me forward in terms of working with very few elements to create a sum that\u2019s greater than the parts,” Waxwing adds. “I was trying to pare everything down and be intentional about every layer of the song.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more insights into the world of video game music, see our guides below on some of the titles and series explored in the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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