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Welcome to WillowTree Audioworks,
online home of award-winning composer Ian Dorsch.

June 2, 2009
- It's update time!
Sadly, I still do not have the Zero Punctuation theme available for
download. I've been promised that I will be turned loose next
month, so we'll see how that pans out. In the meantime, thanks
for all the emails and encouragement. You guys rule.
- I've been writing some
music for a 3rd-person action adventure game called Airborn. The team is mainly
comprised of some very talented European freelancers, and the game was
covered last year by Edge UK. Airborn started life as a UT3 mod
aimed squarely at Epic's Make Something Unreal Contest, but at least
one big game development studio has recently expressed some interest in
their efforts, so they are now focused on getting a playable demo
together. Anyway, it's coming together beautifully from what I've
seen, and they've just approved my main
theme music, so I thought I would share it with you guys. The
temp track they were using had a very swashbuckling Zelda/classic RPG
kind of vibe, so it was an enjoyable challenge to try to mine that vein
without getting too kitschy. Download here.
Enjoy!
February 27, 2009
- Hey, it's probably time
for an update! If you're finding me by way of The Escapist,
you're probably already aware that I'm now working as music
coordinator/semi-in-house composer guy for their video division.
I've recently written themes for The
Escapist Show, Unskippable
and Doomsday
Arcade. I'm working with The Escapist to figure out a
mutually acceptable way to put those themes--and the Zero Punctuation
theme--out for download, so if the stars all align I'll have more to
report in that department soon. I appreciate all the emails
expressing interest in those tunes, and I hope to be able to hook you
guys up soon.
October 15, 2008
- Rock
Paper Shotgun has the exclusive debut trailer for the game Love, for which I provided the music. The
trailer soundtrack is a variation on a piece of music I worked up for
Eskil some time ago, but I realize now that it's something I never
posted to the site. So if you're interested, here it
is.
September 10, 2008
- I worked up a rock
version of the theme for the Gamers With Jobs Conference Call for their
100th
episode. I've posted it here
for your listening enjoyment.
July 28, 2008
- The Escape Radio Theme
song has been getting a new lease on life as music for The
Escapist's E3 Video Coverage.
- Eskil Steenberg, designer
of Love,
has given me the OK to post some works-in-progress for download.
These are not in-game tracks, but rather pieces of music I've put
together in an attempt to peg the musical style for which Eskil is
looking. This
one is an attempt at a main theme for the game, featuring some
vocals from me and my wife, mezzo-soprano Joy Dorsch. Enjoy!
July 9, 2008
- My good friend Russ over
at The Escapist has been
putting me to work lately, and the first fruits of our collaborative
efforts can be heard in the new theme song to Zero
Punctuation, Ben "Yahtzee" Chroshaw's enormously successful and
hilarious video series. If you're unfamiliar with ZP, be warned that it
can be a bit on the edgy side, so don't fire up the video at work or
around anyone who may object to particularly vivid use of profanity. If
you like the way it turned out, feel free to drop me a line via the Contact page or take a minute to drop a
comment in the Escapist's forums.
- I'm working on some music
for Love, a "first person not
so massively multiplayer online procedural adventure game" created by
one-man-army Eskil Steenberg. If you're unfamiliar with the game, there
is some great coverage
over at Rock
Paper Shotgun. It's a tremendously exciting project, and I'll have
some demos to post here soon.
- The good lads at Black Leaf Games have put up
a very cool site to promote their upcoming PC and Xbox 360 title, Art of War,
which features some music by me. Check it out.
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