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This is to Ken & Roberta Williams, and to anyone’s who has spent evenings in front of a computer screen enchanted by Sierra’s adventure games: After working on a “GK Tribute Montage” entitled Gabriel und Grace: Eine Symphonie des Grauens von Gottes Gnaden for a week straight, Deshrill has finally finished uploading the files in various formats online. “I would just like to say that this thing started as what was supposed to last five minutes and ended up turning into a complex 17 1/2 minute Wagnerian-style suite of different music styles, including selections from various anthems from around the globe, along with some highlights from Robert Holmes’s Gabriel Knight score, medieval music from the Brobdignagian Bards, and lots of different musical genres such as jazz, African tribal beats, and choirs of school-children singing the Russian national anthem.” “I would also like to point out that all I did was arrange multiple songs to various images to make it sound like the end credit score to a movie– this is the first time I have tried arranging, but I’d like to think it turned out pretty well. I’m 1/3 German, so maybe that’s part of the reason why I’ve responded to the Gabriel Knight series so strongly.” “This montage is really just a love letter to different cultures and musical around the world, to Jane Jensen & Robert Holmes for creating such a wonderful game with such a great score, and to Ken & Roberta Williams for giving adventure games fan many an entertaining night in front of our computer screens.” Structured in a few different movements, the GK Tribute starts off with an excerpt from the “Girl in the Tower” theme played as nostalgic scenes from the KQ series and the first ECO-QUEST game… Then music then switches between a medley of styles to set up the tone/history of the cultures featured in the first game in the Gabriel Knight trilogy: African/Voodoo, European (German, British), and Mayan. After this segment, it segues into the arranged version of the GK Theme as done in GK2, showing promo images. When the GK Theme from the original game pops up, the cutting starts to speed up in time to the music, ultimately raising the tension until the music segues into ending credit theme to GK. The end credits suite start, with more montage and lots of musical styles switching seamlessly from one to another– each montage is designed to have a different effect for the viewer. The end credits are pretty long, but I hope I have arranged the music and images so they are entertaining. If you stick around to the end, there might be a surprise (perhaps an Egg of Easter, no?) waiting for you… So, thanks for your patience with my silly press release style blurbs on this project, which has become far more personal to me than you can ever imagine. Post comments below… So, quit monkeying around, and click on the links: Note: you might need the latest DivX codec to play these, I’m not too sure. The resolution is 200 x 200, pretty small, so things get pixelated if you go full screen. I apologize that the smallest format I have the entire montage in is Windows Media Player, but that was the smallest I could compress the entire thing (which was originally 450 MEGS!). [16 MEGS] GK Tribute Montage (COMPLETE) WMV http://studentpages.scad.edu/~mtschi20/gk_tribute_vid.wmv [17 MEGS] [GK Tribute Score (MUSIC ONLY) MP3 http://studentpages.scad.edu/~mtschi20/gk_tribute_suite.mp3 [4 MEGS] GK Tribute Montage (EXCERPT) RM http://studentpages.scad.edu/~mtschi20/gk_tribute_vid.rm
[WMV] Complete GK Tribute Montage
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(re: To Ken & Classic Sierra Fans: Gabriel Knight Tribute Complete!!)
Wow, what a cool concept! You really caught the GK feeling there… And I’ll be looking forward to your Monkey Island montage as well. 🙂
This also made me think… If there would ever have been any more GK secrets (one can always hope) the mystery of Tsar Nikolai II and his family would make a great backdrop to a Gabriel Knight mystery! I haven’t thought of a fitting supernatural connection though, but I’m sure there are good ideas to incorporate for that too.
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(re: re: To Ken & Classic Sierra Fans: Gabriel Knight Tribute Complete!!)
Thanks very much to people who enjoy it! I think it’s a bit too long, but it’s my first try at arranging existing music and future efforts (i.e. Monkey Island) will probably be around 5 minutes in length.
Unfortunately, putting that together took a lot of nonstop hard work and I have to go and work on my grades for school, so the Monkey Island one won’t be for a while… 🙂
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