Melodies as Symbols: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation

Photo showing Grammy Award-winning video game composer Winifred Phillips at work in her studio at Generations Productions. As included in the article about the music Phillips composed for the bestselling video game Assassin's Creed Liberation.

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Hello there!  I’m Winifred Phillips. As a part of my career in video game music composition, I was honored to compose the original soundtrack for the bestselling video game Assassin’s Creed Liberation.  In this article series, I’ve been talking with you about the music I composed for that awesome game.  This is the third installment in this article series.  In part one, we discussed the unique cultural heritage of the game’s protagonist.  In part two, we considered how music can bring in-game locations to life, infusing them with a sense of history and meaning.  If you’d like to catch up on the previous two articles, you can find them here:

  1. Cultural Fusion: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
  2. Time and Place: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation

Before we proceed now, I’d like to digress from the topic a moment to talk about video game music in live concert.

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