In September 2022, we partnered with Tover and have since been designing audio for their serious games. Purposeful audio design, contributing to a more caring and inclusive world for people with cognitive challenges. We absolutely love being a part of it! 🙏🏻🕹️

Gold Fever is a challenging survival RPG hybrid.

Face the horrors of the dark and haunting jungle as you engage in fast-paced battles against the opposing faction. Complex terrain and widely varying character strengths & weaknesses make for intense and highly strategic fights.

We've created and implemented all the sound for this upcoming game.

The Music

The music follows the gameplay and tells the story of the factions that will face each other. On one side we have the Adventurers, who scout the lands in pursuit of gold. On the other side we have the Tribals, the native tribes defending their lands and treasures from foreign intruders.

The music emphasizes the story of the faction you choose, right from the beginning of the game. That way, we make the music contribute to the immersivity of the game. The most important thing for us was to give players a sense of excitement and adventure when they leave the encampments, and a homecoming-feeling when they return.

The Sound Design

The story takes place in 1929 and is inspired by the Gold Rush that happend during this time period in certain Rainforest. We find it important to create a true-to-life image of the sounds of this rainforest Gold Rush, by designing all sounds from a realism-perspective, while emphasizing the adventure aspect. This principle is reflected in all the sound, from atmosphere to UI, where we primarily make use of natural textures and sounds.

We have created multiple exciting and challenging systems, including an ambience system that procedurally populates the environment with audio sources based on the landscape.

The Implementation

We combined the power of Unreal and Wwise to create an immersive audio experience, using it as a creative extension of our sound design. The music and sounds adapt to the current active states. These states are in turn linked to parameters and/or trigger cues. The weather system is a good example: we created different soundscape mixes based on the weather state, the player location, and the time of day.

What an amazing journey it was, realising the 5.1 surround audio for this visual installation in Museum 't Behouden Huys on Terschelling. Dive into the mystery and experience how La Lutine sank and why her treasure is still left untouched by this day...

A huge thanks to Colorbleed, Mr. Beam and Museum 't Behouden Huys, who made this experience come to life. It was incredible to work with the most talented voice actors Alexander Heeren, Bob van der Houven and Fé van Kessel.

Our 2022 Music Reel is here! We carefully selected some of the highlights for you.

*drum roll*

Let your eardrums be pampered. The incredible Koen Herfst on the drums, what more could one ask for?

Start your engines and floor it in Blitz GT, the world’s first fully electric team based racing game. Gather a group of friends and compete against other teams for the win!

​Blitz GT is an electrifying driving game that combines blistering arcade racing with thrilling vehicular combat in a vibrant futuristic world. Electricity powers the future of racing. In Blitz GT, you’ll need to build up your energy to power your victory. Smash your opponents and siphon their Kilowatts to get ahead. Take down your enemies in frantic, team-based action, designed for competitive co-op.

Backstory

The year is 2075, and the world is a different place. Cities have grown to megacities and everything revolves around electricity as the main power source. Every year Arcos, a leading tech company, organises Blitz-GT in a different capital, transforming the city in a festive and exhilarating motorsports experience.

Gameplay

As players race over a conductive track, they charge cells on their cars. These cells charge faster as players drive over designated charge strips, or if they drift their car successfully around a corner. Players can safeguard their points by depositing them into the teams total, adding to the teams total score. When a team achieves the target score, they win the match.

Started on the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), now we're here!

Come join the next generation of creatives...

"Improving mental health together."

That is the mission of MIND. Let's amplify that message with Music and Sound Design.

Hold your horses!

*sound of prancing horses*

Are you ready for our latest Sound Design reel? Buckle up.

What's a movie without sound...?

Well, imagine a movie REEL without sound! We couldn't let that happen, so we did the Music and Sound Design for PICL's publicity campaign.

*takes a deep breath*

Immerse yourself in the imaginary world of Dream Droplets, hidden from the conscious mind. Travel alongside young adult Kim in this confronting dream-like fantasy, where grass grows as tall as trees and magical raindrops turn into bursting threads. Take the form of a water droplet, and drift along with the poetic current of her dreamy tale.

Nick Rutten's VR experience aired on Fivars and Imagine Film Festival.

New reality begins today.

What a blast we had empowering the story with Music and Sound Design in 5.1 surround. The screening in Kinepolis was the icing on the cake!

We designed the Music and Sound Design for MIND's OCD campaign.

We had a lot of fun composing and sound designing for the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition 2020. With Melissa de Gier starring as the voice of the protagonist.

The credits for the animation belong to Dolby.

We had a lot of fun composing and sound designing for this animation.

The credits for the animation belong to the Unity Demo Team.

We had a lot of fun composing and sound designing this video for the 8Dio “Score This: The Captain Challenge”.

Update: we’re happy to announce that our score made it into the top 10!

We were asked to score and create sound design for the film “Christoffel Ko Hummus en De Grote Ontdekkingstocht naar Jezelf” (Freely translated as “Christopher Ko Hummus and The Great Discovery of Yourself”), by the amazing Freek Donkers.

A quote by Michel:

“When I met Freek in November 2019 and we talked about his plans for the film over a cup of coffee, I couldn't help but become extremely inspired. The enthusiasm and drive he expressed worked contagiously. When he told me about the concept, I got tears in my eyes from laughing, it was just pure genius and I fell in love with it immediately.”

The Music

We started with determining the right sound. Because Freek was so attracted to the idea of using orchestral music for the film, we easily figured what kind of music we'd write. This was convenient, as it was one of our dreams to score a film using a virtual orchestra.

The music consists mainly of two thematic ideas. Firstly, we have a theme for Korneel, a frivolous, innocent boy who wants to explore himself and the world around him. This theme has the potential to transform into something adventurous, supported with the right orchestration. Secondly, we have a theme for Vlieland and its primitive inhabitants. The new and undiscovered character of this theme is inspired by Mongolian throat singing (probs to Roel!), sound synthesis and more interesting ideas, making it contrast hugely with the character of Korneel's theme.

During the film, Korneel's world becomes more and more intertwined with Vlieland and its inhabitants. We reflected this in the music, by letting the two themes and sounds melt together more and more.

The Sound Design

We brainstormed about equipment, animals, environments and other things that are typical for the 17th century and ended up creating these sounds layer by layer. We even built our own sandpits, created forest floors and footpaths in the studio to record footsteps. We gathered all the sound material we had recorded and prepared and used that to fit the picture. To give the audience the most immersive experience possible, we mixed the whole soundscape including the music in 5.1! This creates the feeling of being in the middle of the action, just the way we like it!

A quote by Freek Donkers, Film Director:

Working with the guys from Auris Media is a true party. Their open, enthusiastic and creative attitude makes for a fruitful and pleasant cooperation. Right from the concept, they provide input for the collaboration between the audio and the film. Early on in the process they delivered demos to make sure that we were on the same page and on the same vibe. They understand their expertise very well and therefore come across as extremely professional. From the very beginning they also helped me think about how we could enhance the comedy with the sound design.

Throughout the project they showed that they can work incredibly hard and master a huge range of different musical styles. When it comes to sound design and foley, Auris Media is also very nice to work with because of their high-quality work and hands-on mentality. Also, it was never a problem if you wanted to have something adjusted and therefore a new version had to be made. These guys always remained cheerful and professional and always contributed to the best end result! It is fantastic to have such enthusiastic people working on your project and and I can assure you that your project is in good hands with Auris Media.

We designed the Music and Sound Design for this animation.

Happily Ever Afterlife is a short animation about Sam and Violet, who are about to get married. But there's a small hiccup, as something awful happens to Sam on his road to Violet. How would the soon to be married couple deal with this strange situation?

We created the music and sound design and recorded all voices.

Huge credits to our voice actors:

• Tico van Eijden
• Merel Hamers
• Daan Alberts
• Meta van Rheenen

This project was in collaboration with talented artist of AKV St. Joost, led by Kasper Boutkan & Caitlin Kwaijtaal.

We were asked to compose the music for this promotional video of Contour, made by Jelle Hoogenberg. A quote by Jelle, regarding our collaboration:

"Auris Media is great to work with. They listen to your wishes, deliver tailor-made solutions and help think about your project from their own expertise. For our trailer we needed fitting music, Auris Media was able to make it exactly as we imagined it. I would happily work with them again!"

We were asked to take on the sonic branding for FOODL.

We took inspiration from kitchen sounds and implemented these with a modern twist.

We were asked to compose the music for this promotional video for Jaap Bos' book "Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences".

The animation is created by the talented Florence Weidema.

We designed the music and sound design for this trailer for Jaap Bos' and Friso Hoeneveld's book "De Volgeling".

"Fri-da people, Fri-da spirit!"

We did the Music and Sound Design for Klokhuis!

The animation is the work of mastermind Freek Donkers.

Virtuverse is a Sci-Fi RCE MMORPG, integrating an intuitive economy system with action-based third-person gameplay.

The Music

Virtuverse presents to the player a huge explorable, ever-growing universe. We wanted to incorporate that in the music, hence the choice to combine big orchestral works with ethereal soundscapes and minimalistic, atmospheric music.

In every part of the universe, you will find immersive, interactive music that adapts to the player location and state. Whether you find yourself strolling in an otherworldly landscape, or dealing with high-paced combat in caves, every situation is accompanied by its own music!

The Sound Design

We use a combination of modern sci-fi and organic elements to represent the enemies and environment, and combine recorded material with synthesis to add a unique flavor.

Every location, weapons, interface and enemies sounds, have their own vibe to them. Curious how we create them? We always start with creating the first layers of sound that set the foundation, and then by adding the right flavor to achieve what the game needs…

Virtuverse presents to the player a huge explorable universe. We wanted to incorporate that in the music, hence the choice to combine big orchestral works with ethereal soundscapes and minimalistic, atmospheric music.

The Implementation

We implemented all audio with Wwise, in a state-based adaptive audio system. Whenever the player reaches a specific location, situation or time of day, all sounds adapt to this situation and environment.