Surfing thru my RSS feeds, I was directed to the website ‘Scoring Sessions‘ which features an article of the music from The Sims 3 World Adventures. Steve Jablonsky, the soundtrack artist for the original Sims 3 game has returned to work on the music for the first expansion. I can’t wait to hear what the music is like, I’m sure we’ll be seeing the Original Sountrack appearing on iTunes very soon!
Based off the same melodies of the original game, The Sims 3 World Adventures is upbeat and peppy, but with the new option to take your Sims to three distinct corners of the globe, Jablonsky has infused the music with a bit more ethnicity this time around. Players can take their Sims to Egypt, where the music has a more Middle-Eastern melody, enhanced with ethnic woodwinds. In France, mandolin and accordion are introduced to the musical palette, and China features ethnic flutes and sliding string lines.
In the tight booth, scoring mixer Jeff Biggers and composer Steve Jablonsky were giving feedback to the orchestra, with 20 minutes of score to be recorded in a single 3-hour session. Orchestrators Penka Kouneva and Philip Klein and scoring assistant Doug Clow were also on hand for support, and Larry Mah handled ProTools recording duties.
