Portfolio Silent Expanse

Empty concert stage set for an evening symphony performance Silent Expanse
Client
Westline Games
Year
2022
Services
Score · Field recording · Ambiences
Score length
60 minutes

Overview

Silent Expanse is a game about absence — so the score had to master vanishing. I spent a fortnight tracking inside dead industrial plants: dripping water, sighing steel, wind through shattered panes. Those takes became the ambience beds and, strangely, the score’s percussion.

Above it all sits one battered upright, tracked on site with every creak left in. When that piano falls silent, players stop breathing with it — and the quiet tells half the tale.

Deliverables

  • Bare upright-piano score, tracked on location
  • A fortnight of exclusive location recordings
  • Weather-following dynamic ambience system
  • Reveal-trailer and announcement cinematics
Close-up of grand piano strings and hammers

“The Expanse feels true because it sounds true. Adrian never faked the ambience — he went out and found it.”

Game Director, Westline Games