Soundtrack

The ScoreVÆ VICTIS

Fourteen pieces in play order.

The game has no music files. Its score is played live by code, and this album is that score rendered offline: sixty seconds of each loop, through the game's own mixer, and measured. The original is the code.

Cover: the title screen's throne hall, a live frame of the game at 5x.

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Tracks

1. 1

   Woe to the Conquered1:00

   Plays in: Title screen, the counsel and the credits

   The title theme, in D minor. Wick's motif (D, F, E flat, D: "vae vic-tis") on the cello under the organ, choir and strings, with a timpani.

2. 2

   Purchase, Investiture, Burial2:32

   Plays in: The intro (AWAKEN)

   The score of the intro film, cued to its shots: the funeral bell, the false gilded fanfare, the knocks on the door, the kill. Rendered by the game's own tool.

3. 3

   The Cathedral Under the Cathedral1:00

   Plays in: The haven

   Organ, choir and strings in the haven where Wick wakes.

4. 4

   Candles at the Lychgate1:00

   Plays in: The churchyard

   Strings and choir over the churchyard.

5. 5

   The Bat Lord's Court1:00

   Plays in: The graveyard court

   Organ, strings and choir for the graveyard court and the Marquis Andrevel.

6. 6

   Low Water, High Street1:00

   Plays in: The gutter quarter

   Strings over a drone: the gutter quarter and its market cross.

7. 7

   The Music Box Ward1:00

   Plays in: The orphanage

   Choir and strings with a music box: the orphanage.

8. 8

   The Causeway1:00

   Plays in: The causeway

   Strings on the long approach to the Tower.

9. 9

   The Soldier's Feast1:00

   Plays in: The Tower

   Strings, a reed and timpani for the house of the Tower (its feast is the Soldier's).

10. 10

    The Gallows Downs1:00

    Plays in: The Gallows Downs

    Strings over a deep drone: the wastes beyond the city.

11. 11

    The King's Labyrinth1:00

    Plays in: The King's Labyrinth Gardens

    The garden maze's ostinato.

12. 12

    The Crow Run1:00

    Plays in: The gardens, the crow run

    The gardens' second theme, for the run with the crows.

13. 13

    The Height1:00

    Plays in: The Height

    An organ for the stair up to the caged saint.

14. 14

    The Pleasance Minuet1:00

    Plays in: The Pleasance

    A minuet for the pleasure garden and its grotto.

The pieces were mixed on purpose for the places they play in, each to its own level, under the voice. For listening on their own, a few are louder or quieter than the rest: the title, the intro, and the stair up to the Height.

The titles of the pieces are ours, and the voice and the effects are left out: this is the score alone.

Every picture on this page is a live frame of the game, the game's own carved title, or a figure drawn by the game's own pipeline. No painted or generated art.