mrkenallen

I'm trying to track that down. When I do, I'll add it to my YouTube channel and post links here.

Oh wait, I found a link. You may kill this thread.

Anyone have a suggestion where I might find the SQ5 beta?

I'll check it out.

I'm VERY pro fan games!

Very nice!

I'm also adding a few recordings from my film scoring sessions while attending UCLA. These are very raw, but I wanted to share some of this work for those who might be interested. If you want to hear these as the are posted, subscribe to my channel at YouTube.com/mrkenallen.

Yeah, I'd just been hired by Interplay, and Rusty, the producer for Descent came to me and asked me to add a couple more songs to the game. I listened to what had been written and composed two more tracks for the soundtrack in the same style. I had a very minor role in that game's score.

I also like this one you did. The ZZ Top spoof in the SQ1 Rocket Bar.

Brandon's post alerted me to this website http://dwellingofduels.net I did a quick search for tunes from the Sierra games I worked on and found these. SQ 4 Cantina - renamed: Drunk In Space - artist: Koelsch1 This one also claims to be an SQ4 cover, but I have no idea from where - renamed: 2525 - artist: Hydrasphere Thexder Firehawk - Fifth Mission - artist: MusicallyInspired (Brandon who did the SQ4 medley in a previous post)

Brandon, you made my day! This is a "must listen" for everyone!

I'm going to be compiling the best recordings and covers of my game music for my youtube channel, youtube.com/mrkenallen. And I would like your help finding the best of the best. You can PM me or post links publically in this thread. And thanks in advance for your help. --- Ken "your music pal" Allen

I'm gonna start a new thread with this new topic.

This rocks hard. LOVE IT!

I'm going to be compiling the best recordings and covers of my game music for my youtube channel, youtube.com/mrkenallen. And I would like your help finding the best of the best. You can PM me or post links publically in this thread. And thanks in advance for your help.

Yes, Chris and Tim did a great job.

So now that the podcast is live, I can spill one big secret I revealed in the interview. After I left Sierra to become a contract composer, I actually composed a full score for SC5. Mark Crowe and the dev team were at Dynamix and pretty much operated under the radar of the Oakhurst office. But after I completed the work and got paid, I let it slip to a Sierra employee I had just finished the SQ5 music. This part is second hand so, I'm not 100% sure this is true, but I heard that after Ken and Roberta Williams returned from vacationing in Barcelonam Ken was told of my involvement, and the he ordered my music pulled in favor of music from Sierra staff composers. At the risk of starting a forum firefight, please allow me to defend Ken's decision. I'd left Sierra in a way some would describe as a "burning a bridge." I was writing music for his direct competition, including the group of ex-Sierra folks at Tsunami across town. And I can see that someone in Ken's position would feel betrayed. I mean, If I had built a company as awesom as Sierra and heard that a disloyal former employee who was helping the competition was also getting credit in one of my company's top franchise, I'd probably be a little cranky, too. The sad part is I do not have those music files, and that work is probably lost to the world. I was hoping the music extracted from the game CD and posted here would have included the lost music files. But alas, no.

Great job Chris. The interview was a littled longer than this recording, But Chris did an awesome job editing it down to a single session.

You know, I can see why you might think the BSG theme was an influence. So, yeah, probably. I just don't have a clear memory of what influenced my score for the SQ4 opening. Firstly, is was so long ago, and, secondly, it was a prolific and sleepless weekend for me when I produced the music for that sequence. I just wanted to impress the two guys from Andromeda and, to do so, I pulled out all the stops. Hats off to Stu Phillips for composing such a wonderful score that was so inspiring.

The podcast is up at GuysFromAndromeda.com. I hate hearing my voice. http://guysfromandro...host-ken-allen/

Yep, that's the one! Good find! :D

Hmmm, I don't have the game so I can't verify one way or another, but I do have a recollection of Mr. Seibert's piece also being in the game. It's a perfectly fine piece of music and it would have been silly not to include it. I think it's in.

We were all on staff and paid a salary. For my last birthday, my wife purchased a USB keyboard controller and a copy of Cubase because I said something about missing being a composer. I'm dabbling. If I create anything new as part of that dabbling, I'll probably post it on my YouTube channel at youtube.com/mrkenallen Actually no, there's another which is more similar to the Amok Time battle theme (also heard in the Cable Guy melee sequence between Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick) that Mark wrote. Although I will admit some of the themes in this piece are inspired by several of the battle themes from ST-TOS, maybe even a little subconsciously from Amok Time. And this recording was one of mine. Thanks for posting it. A few years after writing this piece (mid 90s) I enrolled at UCLA for their film scoring program. This is something I mention in the 5/7/2012 podcast for guysfromandromeda.com. What I don't mention in the podcast is that one of my instructors was a gentleman named Gerald Fried (pronounced "freed"), who, by complete coincidence, was one of the composers for several episodes of ST-TOS, one of which was Amok Time! Talk about serendipity...!

Another little-known fact. Sierra Telephone now occupies the former Sierra On-Line offices and facilities in Oakhurst.

Hey, here's something most people don't know. The pound sign on the phone keypad is actually called "octotherp" and the star key is "sextile". I learned this while doing the sounds for one of the SQ4 puzzles where you have to punch in a code on a number key pad. I just called Sierra Telephone and asked to speak with an engineer, told them I was working on this game and I wanted learn what frequencies that were used to generate the sounds you hear when pressing the buttons. The engineer was eager to contribute and looked it up for me. As he read each key name and the frequencies, he used the word "octotherp" and I asked, "what's that?" Then he used "sextile" and volunteered that is was the asterisk key. Little-known fact, now slightly less little-known.