By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow
Welcome! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and among my credits as a game composer, I was delighted to compose the original soundtrack for the bestselling video game Assassin’s Creed Liberation. It was the first game from the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise to feature a female assassin. Creating a musical support for her awesome adventure was an immense privilege for me. In this series of articles, we’ve been exploring the composition process that I pursued for Assassin’s Creed Liberation, including how I used music to support the narrative by defining locations, reflecting cultural and historical influences, and emphasizing important ideas. If you’d like to catch up on the previous four articles, you can find them here:
- Cultural Fusion: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
- Time and Place: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
- Melodies as Symbols: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
- The Symbolism of Recurrence: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
Through initial theme and subsequent variation, music can carry ideas forward while keeping those concepts fresh as they undergo repetition. The theme and variation technique allows us as composers to create structure and unify a musical score, and this effect can operate with multiple themes. Together, these themes can form a sense of overall identity for a video game.