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Erica, Spoilers, and Brands: Interview with Austin Wintory

Waypoint Radio

VICE

Leisure, Video Game Development, Television, Rewatch, Replay, Tv & Film, Video Games, Games, Movies, Video Game Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

We have a special bonus episode of Waypoint Radio, Austin and Patrick are joined by award winning composer Austin Wintory to talk about his next project, the FMV game Erica. They also discuss horror movie music tropes, the difference between scoring movies and scoring games, and some of Austin Wintory's favorite brands.

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0:00.0

What's good internet? Welcome to Waypoint Radio, a very special episode of Waypoint Radio.

0:21.7

That doesn't have a date yet because I don't know what the schedule will be when the embargo

0:25.7

drops on this one.

0:27.4

I am Austin Walker Patrick Leffich, as here as always, and joining us, very special guest,

0:32.0

the award-winning composer Austin Winnery is here, another Austin joining the podcast.

0:37.4

Oh no, I've won enough. Thank you.

0:40.4

One is too much, let's be honest.

0:42.4

And yet here we are. And so yeah, we're here to face disaster together.

0:50.6

Well, face or create disaster together. One of those.

0:54.2

Oh, interesting. You're already selling us on the mystery of whatever your next project

0:58.6

is.

0:59.6

Well, the mystery, I think the mystery comes from the fact that I always, I meet very few

1:05.1

other Austin's and I always say the reason why is because of that plot from the horrible

1:10.5

Jet Lee movie, The One, where he goes to parallel universes, killing the parallel version

1:17.2

of himself because apparently there's like this universal amount of power and we're all

1:21.8

normal humans because it's diluted amongst like 40 parallel versions. And as they die,

1:26.9

you get more powerful. And it's obvious. I mean, it's just physics. So this is why we

1:32.5

have to do this by Skype. We can't do this in person. It's too dangerous. I like the

1:36.6

thing that we'd hold ourselves back, but the temptation would be right there, you know.

1:40.4

So yeah, we keep each other accountable. That's for sure.

1:44.0

Austin, you and I actually first met three years ago. Almost, I don't know to the date,

1:49.9

but it might actually you want to know it's almost exactly to the date, which I know because

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