only know your opinion on my work fills me with joy!
a big thank you to everyone for your interest!

Dude, this is incredible.

And wishy, I know you’re wishing well, but I’m thinking this’ll be done maybe August 2012

I would say December 21 2012 Muhaha

2025 (looong vacation?)

And yes Turjan’s music is awesome! The ahnomehprad is just too cool.

Yey Turjan!!

They SHOULD have it done by December 2009!!! Edit some Lord of the Rings movie here, Starwars there, add in a little sound track from Turjan and Jack Wall, hire Catherine Zeta Jones to play Anna and we got a movie!!!

Yey Turjan! And if possible, a cooperation between Turjan and Jack Wall could make a really great soundtrack!!

Wow, it’s like he sent you his own version of an animatic!

Heck yeah, Myst 3 music was the best, especially the main theme.

I like this guy! Keep him!

I really liked how the words to Exile’s main theme were in D’ni/Narayan. Set a different level of realism into it. I agree with Lontahv though, it needs to be a subtle and very moody music. However, the song used at the end of the animatic (during the scenes from Veovis’ conviction to the very end) fits Myst INCREDIBLY well, so I think that should be used, if possible, in the movie trailers to come

Ok, my personal opinion:

Hire Turjan and Robyn. For 2 reasons. Turjan is fantastic and has actually brought something new and appropriate to the Myst table. Robyn created Myst, Riven, and D’ni and understands what music is fit for the universe he created. The man knows what style, atmosphere, and emotion should be attributed to Myst as he both created the worlds and composed the original soundtracks which paved the way for the others.

Another point I’d like to make is while Turjan is by far the best composer besides Robyn to work for the Myst name, there are still understandable imperfections about some of his music. For instance, the proposal piece is for the most part fantastic, but there are then there are these drums which don’t fit. The style of drumming sounds too new – i.e. closer to human pop music than to D’ni music. I think a rougher sound texture, as could be done with an African tam tam would work a lot better. As it stands now it’s a great piece, but the percussion uncomfortably reminds me of new age gothic pop music. It’s the kind of thing that even if someone likes as music, it will never work in a film context. Let me rephrase that; it CAN work, but not successfully, and by successfully I mean stellarly. Success in my eyes, especially in relation to the Myst movie equates a sense of hardcore sophistication and perfection. The piece, or at least the drum part, just doesn’t cut it in terms of how seriously the film is meant to be taken.

Anywhoo, everything else I’ve heard on Turjan’s site is pure artistic gold. The ahnomeprad stuff sounds like the soundtrack Stanley Kubrick would have used if he were making the Myst movie or a movie set in ancient times, if he were still alive.

Another thing I’d like to mention in relation to what I just said is…honestly… screw Jack Wall and Larkin. Yes they may have done some cool stuff with Myst, but they’re really not cut out for film, and by film I mean real cinema. Even Wall who does fantastic game soundtracks, you gotta admit, even with the games, it’s just not the most innovative or creative music. There have been some bursts of inventiveness and genuine compositional gold, but for the most part it’s orchestral nu-classical – which translates to “it’s been done” and “it’s still being done, much to my a lot of other’s dismay”. Larkin on the other hand I’ve never had an affinity for. It’s game music. Period. …and I’ve actually been playing a lot of other games recently, like non-Myst ones for a change (my chance to catch up with culture) and I’ve gotta say that even though many argue that his inventiveness and style reigns high in the industry, I’ve heard a lot better stuff in the last few months. It’s just average music, barely. The Elder Scrolls Soundtracks are phenomenal for instance. Another big impresser was the soundtrack for Portal. All that to say that if you want a composer who can score a film that won’t be devoured by 10 year old kind, (meaning a work of cinema – those which seem to be lacking these days) you need a ‘composer’, not a big shot in the video games industry. I think it’s safe to say that Robyn Miller isn’t really a big shot, or in the video games industry (as he’s far too much of an artist to stay put and confide himself to one line of work and way thinking) that and the guy is composer in all manners of the word. He composed ALL of Myst from the visuals to the sound and soundtrack to the mere notion of a video game as a visual and intellectual interactive adventure. You’ve gotta give this guy credit, especially because he practically invented the notion of virtual reality.

Anywhoo, my vote goes to Turjan and Robyn. I think their similar mind frames when it comes to composing and music in general will prove to be an artistic edge; along with their differences. Kudos to both of them and to the Myst movie!

I agree with everything Yali’s said here. Robyn and Turjan!

I agree that Jack Wall has great music, and very cinematic, but I do have one worry. We haven’t really heard anything D’ni out of him. Exile was very good Narayani. Revelation was good Sereni.
Robyn would be a cool addition, but as mentioned, it might be too atmospheric. Riven’s music was beautiful, but is it Myst Movie?
I’d go for the people who made End of Ages’ soundtrack (or URU). And, of course, Turjan. His music is very good.

No love for Tim? Have we forgotten how we all got chills at the Gallery Theme, or sat around in Minkata just to hear the music?

I would love to see a blend of Jack Wall/Howard Shoreesque orchestral bits, ambient moodiness like Tim/Robyn, and the Non-humanishness of Turjan’s work. Add in Elizabeth Frasier and Ben del Maestro for vocals.

My issue with Wall is that it’s decidedly cinematic. I’m tired of ‘cinematic’. I’m tired of movie scores that overtly emphasize the epic and the dramatic like they’re trying to convince us the film, world, story is the best thing since sliced bread. The only movie that did it well is Star Wars, and it really ain’t the greatest work of cinema if you consider the 100 years that film has existed.

If you want a classical composer, hire the dead, no seriously. Look how Kubrick utilized Strauss in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Beethoven in A Clockwork Orange, or even the living Ligeti, who by the way is a serious composer for whom commercialism is the LAST thing on his mind. Jack Wall is cheap, like every other industry music dude, and I mean that not out of hate for them but for love of cinema. I was playing the Myst III Soundtrack one time for my piano teacher in grade 7 and I said it was just like Carmina Burrana. He said, “Yeah, but Carmina Burranna is better”. True. …and heck, even the big names in Hollywood have yet to release anything of musical caliber. I just saw Wall E which is a great movie with a symphonic score, but musically it offers nothing of any real significance or memorability.

But back to my main point, I want this film to be a *film*, not a movie. I use movie as a metaphor for the kind of film that is so easily appreciated across the world but has no merit as being a ‘work’, that is a product that has an identity and is self reflecting through it’s very existence. Music is extremely integral in developing an image and aura for a film that can lend itself to flip from being a product of entertainment to being a work of art. You can make far better and infinitely more thrilling and powerful films with little music, and music that is subtle and direct than with a huge orchestra and a postmodern movie composer straight from the market. All you’ll get is legions and legions of 11 year old fans and 2+ years of stardom before the next decade rolls around and people start thinking differently, once again.

What I want is the film to reflect the artistry and intelligence of Cyan and the games (Myst/Riven/Uru) and the person who comes closest to knowing how to create real music and has a *chance* of understanding what I mean by the artistry and intelligence of Cyan and the games is the frakkin’ creator the company and the Myst name, concept, and universe!