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A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - SaltTheFries - 05-05-2011

Hello, I'm new to the forums, I've anxiously signed up here to share my random discovery:

Unless the artist I'm talking about sampled his sources from elsewhere, I know where Amnesia: The Dark Descent got some chunk of its music from, it's from The Caretaker's (he's a dark ambient artist) 1999 album Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom and specificially from the track called From Out of Nowhere. The resemblance is eerily uncanny! Check it out yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2p_JVbH0HY

I might be mistaking it for something else, it's been a couple of months since I've finished Amnesia, but do you think it's a likely source of inspiration? Not necessarily that low-pitched demon voice (actually not at all), but that ghostly female choir that occurs at 0:33 for the first time and the track's overall ambience.


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - Matthias Steel - 05-05-2011

(05-05-2011, 04:16 PM)SaltTheFries Wrote: Hello, I'm new to the forums, I've anxiously signed up here to share my random discovery:

Unless the artist I'm talking about sampled his sources from elsewhere, I know where Amnesia: The Dark Descent got some chunk of its music from, it's from The Caretaker's (he's a dark ambient artist) 1999 album Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom and specificially from the track called From Out of Nowhere. The resemblance is eerily uncanny! Check it out yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2p_JVbH0HY

I might be mistaking it for something else, it's been a couple of months since I've finished Amnesia, but do you think it's a likely source of inspiration? Not necessarily that low-pitched demon voice (actually not at all), but that ghostly female choir that occurs at 0:33 for the first time and the track's overall ambience.

very creepy track, doesn't sound much like anything from Amnesia though.


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - nofsky - 05-05-2011

Doesn't sound like anything from Amnesia to me. Was there any particular track from Amnesia you were thinking of?


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - xiphirx - 05-05-2011

It sounds like one of the tracks, not sure what its called though. Hope you get an answer from Mikko Tongue


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - Fomzo - 05-05-2011

Did you call yourself SaltTheFries because you like them??? If so, you're my friend already, I LOOOOOOOOVE friesBig Grin


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - SaltTheFries - 05-05-2011

I love them too, but I named myself after System Shock 1's meme Wink That's pretty much my nickname everywhere.


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - Frost - 05-05-2011

Ambiance 23? In the program files, "23_amb02" specifically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfHLkyPowQI


RE: A discovery about Amnesia's sound design - SaltTheFries - 05-05-2011

That's exactly what I meant!