125: Music: The Final Frontier
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jason's eating pain au chocolat on the Seine this week, so Kirk is joined instead by Kotaku's Heather Alexandra and Stephen Totilo to talk over some recent news, as well as the games they've recently been playing. (Stephen: Assassin's Creed Origins. Heather: Far Cry 2.)
After that (22:17), Kirk talks with award-winning composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin's Creed Syndicate) about his upcoming stage production A Light in the Void, as well as the arduous process of auditioning to be the composer for Star Trek: Discovery, and why he feels like it was worth it even though he didn't get the gig.
Music and Audio Clips Used:
"Nascence" and "Apotheosis" from Austin Wintory's Journey Soundtrack
"This is Saturn," a 2007 TED talk by Carolyn Porco
"Wonder Woman Main Theme," performed by Tina Guo
Three clips from Austin's Medium post "Star Trek Discovery, In a Parallel Universe."
"Ai Giochi Addio," performed by Natasha Marsh
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast that put on maybe the best live performance ever at Coachella last weekend. |
| 0:15.1 | Just kidding, that was Beyonce, but we've got a pretty great show for you this week as well. |
| 0:18.9 | Jason's off this week, so I'm joined in his stead by Heather Alexander and Stephen Totillo |
| 0:22.6 | to talk about the news of the week, including more trouble for video game record holder |
| 0:26.1 | Billy Mitchell, and recent reports that Call of Duty Black Ops 4 won't have a traditional |
| 0:29.9 | single-player campaign. |
| 0:31.2 | We also discuss how Stephen never gets closure from games these days, and why Far Cry 2 is so good. Then I got on the line with award-winning composer Austin Wintery to talk about his upcoming concert project, Light in the Void, as well as what it |
| 0:41.3 | was like to audition for the composer gig on Star Trek Discovery. It's going to be a lot of fun. Stick |
| 0:46.1 | around. |
| 1:11.9 | Welcome back to the show as ever. We're so glad that you're here. My name is Kirk Hamilton. I am editor at large at kataku.com. Jason is not here. He is overseas in Paris. I urge you all to send him tweets asking about the weather. He'll be back next week. In his stead, I am joined by two special guests. |
| 1:15.7 | First, I am joined by Kotaku's staff writer, Heather, Alexander. |
| 1:16.3 | Hello, Heather. |
| 1:16.7 | How's it going? |
| 1:17.6 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:18.2 | How are you? |
| 1:19.6 | I'm doing pretty well. |
| 1:20.4 | It's nice to see you. |
| 1:20.7 | You too. We are also joined by Stephen Totillo, Kataku Editor-in-Chief. |
| 1:24.2 | Hey, Stephen. Hi, that is me. That is you. That is an accurate statement. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm very excited to have you both here. We're going to go a little bit off book in a minute and |
| 1:32.2 | just talk about some stuff. First, a couple of pieces of housekeeping. Westworld, season two, |
| 1:37.2 | is on Sunday, and Jason and I are going to do a special podcast episode talking about that. |
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