Hi there,

If it's okay to do so, I'd like to shamelessly plug a mod I'm working on: a suite of new music for Skyrim that is to be added onto the existing soundtrack. It's currently in development, but I'm hoping to have something up on Skyrim Nexus in a few weeks. And there's a 4 minute trailer on Youtube for you to check out... but apparently I can't submit links yet, so you have to add the following onto the usual Youtube URL:

/watch?v=9L1h6Ijz2HM

As far as mods go I daresay this is a pretty ambitious one, using nothing but industry level equipment to create it. I'm also a professional composer; I've written for and conducted orchestras and ensembles in the past, so I'm taking pains to ensure that the orchestration is completely authentic. In short this is part of what I do for a living, so I can promise it's not going to be some hack job. Now, as I mentioned above there's no set release date; but I'm hoping to guage people's interest in the idea before commiting dozens or hundreds more hours to this, so I'd appreciate your feedback on the sample video. And if you want to see more then do the like/rate/subscribe crap that's all the rage these days.

Now I'm just gonna flagrantly copy-paste my Youtube description of the video in here:

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'Skyrim Suite' is a forthcoming soundtrack update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, featuring professional quality original music after the style of Jeremy Soule. This new suite of music aspires to an unmatched level of quality and realism in the modding community, using industry-level equipment and music by a professional composer. It is an entirely lore-friendly update and uses stylistically similar music to Soule's soundtrack - as well as keeping an entirely acoustic palette with no synthesizers or audio effects beyond the subtle tweaks to equalizers and reverb that one would expect during any mastering of a recording. All of the musical textures and effects are thus created using the instruments' natural timbre and combinations of real-life extended techniques rather than computer filters.

The orchestration is likewise completely authentic, using proper compositional techniques rather than digital trickery or instrument substitutions. The audio files are not normalized, meaning that the volume corresponds to the performance's dynamics as naturally as possible. Although the pieces are mixed in such a way that they should sound acceptable on any speakers, the emphasis is on creating music for high-quality sound systems. As such I'd advise that anyone able to do so use decent headphones or speakers for watching this video (despite the fact that Youtube will probably compress it anyway).


Finally, a special thanks to Hodilton for the beautiful video footage.

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Thanks for reading.