He made the soundtrack to Remember Me, Vampyr and A Plague Tale: Legendary composer Olivier Deriviere from Paris is leading us through his work process, his favourite soundtracks and the best ways to involve composers in your game dev workflow.
French composer Olivier Deriviere is a mainstay in European game music (all pictures in this article: Olivier Deriviere)
GamesMarket: Lead us into the interview with a soundtrack: What one music piece of yours are you most proud of and why? Please send a Youtube link with so that we can embed it as well.
Deriviere: This is the toughest question as you can’t choose which kids you love the most. I would go with “Remember Me - Nilin the Memory hunter” (quite old but I am in the mood).
I am happy with this one as it was the first time I would record in London and with scoring engineer John Kurlander (who passed away last year). I think this music could only happen in a video game as it is very daring. We recorded a full orchestra and then I manipulated it with post-process effects in order to celebrate the game’s substance: to manipulate an organic form like memory and hack it.
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