I was listening to the butcher's bridge music and it struck me how much it reminds me of traditional Quebec music. Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShZSiu9Mio
It got me thinking about whether certain pieces in LoL draw inspiration from specific styles. Tahm Kench's theme is another good example, being obviously based on the folk music of the southern states.
Yeah, everyone on the audio team at Riot is certainly influenced and inspired by tons and tons of different styles. We use references when we're communicating to team members from other disciplines when we're trying to convey our vision by showing pieces and saying "something similar to this style but with these instruments instead of these and with these differences and these similarities". It's the best way for a composer or sound designer to convey the vision and style of what they're trying to achieve. Sound Designers do this as well by pulling references of cool sounds from games and film.
Nice! Glad stuff is resonating with you. Honestly, what you've just highlighted is what I love about working on Champion Team and at Riot in general. Every Champion is so unique and different and each one has their own unique identity and sonic pallet to explore. Doing the sounds and voice for Rek'sai and then go immediately into doing the sounds and voice for Bard is completely crazy. So completely different in every way. It's one of the more challenging (and fun) things about my job as a sound designer.
The music is pretty awesome, as another thread said. I mean, I've got a kinda specific taste, such as the Project Yi login, (correct me if I'm wrong, but that was DnB, right? If it's not, please tell me what it was so I can find more music of the same type), and Braum login, Who could forget the Braum login?
Yeah, that being said... uh... continue making music! (hopefully one's I like xD)
