Those four instruments, along with Chinese drums, gave us the overlay we needed to have a bit of Asian feel. We also included one more-the pipa, which is more or less the Chinese version of the banjo. The third instrument was called the dizi -you know how if you pluck a blade of grass and blow on it, you get that reedy sound? Well, the Dizi has a hole in it with a membrane that vibrates, and so it sounds like a flute, but it has this very buzzy overtone. We also added the guzheng, which is like a harp, but it’s long and laid out flat. One is the erhu, which is basically a Chinese fiddle it’s got 2 strings, and an almost vocal vibrato singing quality.
So, we kept our usual palette of epic orchestral sounds, but we added some specific Chinese instruments. We shouldn’t go so far afield that it doesn’t feel like Warcraft.
That stemmed from a conversation I had with Chris Metzen early on we were looking at all the gorgeous artwork and art direction of Pandaria, and he said, “the artwork is telling us we’re in a different world, a place of wonder, but one that will potentially get conquered by the Alliance and Horde.” He felt that we needed an Asian overlay, but that the soundtrack was also an opportunity to remind us that we’re still in Azeroth. Q: What instrumentation did you use for the MoP soundtrack? It sounds very different from what we’ve heard in other World of Warcraft expansions.Ī: We supplemented the usual palette of sounds rather than replace it.
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