PlayStation Releases Video of Live Performance by Detroit: Become Human’s Composer
A new video was released today on PlayStation’s YouTube channel to celebrate the release of Detroit: Become Human’s soundtrack. The video showcases part of the soundtrack by featuring a live performance by one of the game’s composers. With nothing but a cello and a loop pedal, he performs an impressive solo rendition of “Kara’s Theme” from Quantic Dream’s latest game.
The Music of Detroit: Become Human
Detroit: Become Human’s soundtrack is certainly sizable. The eighty-five track score became available to download today on Spotify and Apple Music. The soundtrack is the work of three different composers, each of whom were tasked with writing the music for each of the three protagonists’ storylines. Philip Sheppard wrote the score for Kara’s storyline. Nima Fakhara wrote the music for Connor’s, and John Paesano wrote for Markus’ story. Guillaume de Fondaumière previously stated that the composers sought to create different styles of music for each character. For example, Connor’s soundtrack is electronic, Kara’s is dominated by the cello, and Markus’ is more orchestral.
The video released by PlayStation features Philip Sheppard, the composer who wrote for Kara’s storyline. Sheppard performs a live solo version of Kara’s Theme, the main character theme from that third of the soundtrack, using only a cello and a loop pedal.
Detroit’s soundtrack is certainly one of the larger of recent releases. It makes sense that PlayStation would want to announce the release publicly too, given Detroit’s strong sales performance since its release. Quantic Dream’s latest game didn’t quite achieve the review scores which their previous most successful title, Heavy Rain, did. However, Detroit is well on the way to surpassing it in sales. Recently released figures showed that during its first month, the game outpaced sales of Heavy Rain by over 20%. With over one million units of the PS4 exclusive already sold, PlayStation has plenty of good reasons to market the newly available soundtrack as widely as possible.