Sobbed like a schoolgirl during my first ever playthrough. The person I was going with and I had been together since the beginning, and they'd been so patient with me. There was one time they went AFK in front of a gravestone on the mountain and I stuck around, worried I'd lose them. But they got up, chimed quietly and continued up. Whenever I return to this title I gravitate toward give new players that same experience, circling that grave and making it clear I want them to sit a moment before we continue upwards.
I wish I could do the same, but the game keeps pairing with me with fully embroidered white robes that already know the ins and outs of the game. I only ever saw another red robe (7 of them, to be exact) during my first playthrough, and since then it's just whites. I guess there are just not that many new players anymore, but lots of veterans who want to help them.
I love how the harmonies that lead into a resolution resolve into something not quite finalizing, usually something that sets up a beginning for a transformation. This often changing the interpretation and perspective of previous harmonies' meaning and purpose, making the storytelling of the music so vivid and alive.
Mr. Wintory, let me tell you something. If Michael Giacchino is the modern John Williams, then you sir are the modern Jerry Goldsmith, and I hope you realize the immensity of that compliment, but also that it is true. You have affected so many peoples lives because of the sheer emotion you convey in your work, and like Goldsmith's score to Rudy, the score to Journey inspires us to believe in the ability of a small, insignificant person to change lives and bring hope to the world. Your music is Art, and as Mr. Goldsmith once said, "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good." You have proven this to be true. For that, thank you so very much.
Regarding your description: You were given no "almost unfair advantage". This track was what convinced me to experience JOURNEY, not the other way around. JOURNEY is a masterpiece, but I'm not sure you are aware of just how responsible you are for it being a masterpiece. This is one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever encountered in my entire life; it has been from the first time I heard it, long before I had even downloaded the game. I cannot put into words what your work means to me. So I'll simply say: Thank you.
@@awintory same here. this song changed my entire life. i dont need to mention that i sobbed like a 7 year old school girl. 41 year male from china here. i lost it when i read THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THE JOURNEY... yelling at my screen why the game devs thank me?! it must be the other way around. i salute you. i wont forget this song for the rest of my life until the day i die. 🙌🙌🙌
The energetic, allmost playfull violins from Section 1 define the first half and give the listener a feeling of the strenght, gifted by the ancestors in white. And then Section 5, when the summit is in plain sight and nothing in the world can go wrong anymore. It is a perfect summary for the game and its goal. Everything is overcome and only pure good is left.
this song changed my entire life. i dont need to mention that i sobbed like a 7 year old school girl. i lost it when i read THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THE JOURNEY... yelling at my screen why the game devs thank me?! it must be the other way around. i salute you. i wont forget this song for the rest of my life until the day i die. 🙌🙌 41 year male from china here.
Voted for the soundtrack in the Classic FM Hall of Fame this year to mark the 10th Anniversary of this masterpiece. Truly deserves to be regarded as one of the best alongside the musical geniuses such as Elgar and Tchaikovsky whom I also voted for as my other two choices with Nimrod Variations and 1812 overture being their pieces I voted for respectively. Always brings me to tears, I think the game is a masterpiece but I think it would not be complete without the wonderful music you wrote for it which really does help uplift the story it tells.
This is the one. Bawled my eyes out during my first (coop) and second (solo) playthroughs the moment this started playing (doesn't help that the ascent hypes you up after all that just happened). And to this day, it still gets me bawling my eyes out, nose turned into a broken faucet, and goosebumps left and right. Safe to say that the final walk is my breaking point lol. And it doesn't help that right after comes Lisbeth Scott and opens the flood gates with "I Was Born For This" - same thing happened a few months prior when I finished MGS4 for the first time and "Here's To You" (aka "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti") started playing during the credits, this was my introduction to Lisbeth Scott. I kinda started using Journey as my own "therapy" right after my first runs, my way of venting about stuff and letting it all out, and god damn it sure has been effective for almost a decade now (oh lookie look, as of the time of writing this comment, it's 2 days before March 12, so happy early 10th anniversary!). Doesn't matter how many times I've played it, it still feels like the first time. And even if I can't play the game, the soundtrack is just a few clicks away, and it's just as effective. Pretty sure I've said it before on other videos and whatnot. But thank you, Austin.
Austin Wintory Austin Wintory Didn’t hear the violas playing unis with v1 and v2 at the beginning, I thought it was the Celli playing the melody right after, not the violas 🙈(maybe I have bad ears). I somehow didn’t recognise the synth playing chords at all, I always thought it was the gong/bells adding some natural background harmony. The choir seemed rather real to me , just sounding "synth-like". In my defence, the piece is just too relaxing and beautiful, you can’t listen to it too analytical (only after looking at the score ofc)😎
I played Journey because of your compositions. When I selected it in the Playstore Nascence began playing, and I immediatley felt in love with the music, so I bought the game, and we all know the rest.
Oh man Journey means so much to me, the music is absolutely phenomenal and just gets me close to tears when I listen to it again, you did an amazing job ♥️💕
@@awintory Ah I didn't know you did that too. (For shame!) It's a great little game! Are you/You are becoming the Troy Baker of video game scores?/! ;-)
I just beat this game again for the four for fifth time a couple nights ago, and every time I get to Apatheosis I always tear up at the end because of how beautiful it is.
Over the past month I have been swinging downwards in many ways. Last night I thought of listening to this on repeat, and it is bringing me some slow tears of release. 🥲 The stage of rebirth in the game that this goes with is helping me feel I can get through this and find my way back to walking in the light instead of emotional darkness.
This is genuinely one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard, which I don't say lightly. It's immediately clear there's skill and effort and thought behind this, from the instruments onwards, and the way it meshes with the game itself is downright perfect. It's rare that a soundtrack can make me feel what I was about to feel, if that makes sense. It was like going, "Yeah, that's exactly how I was about to feel!" every time a new section of this piece kicked in during the game and it elevated an already astounding experience to new heights. It's an absolute masterpiece and along with the rest of the stunning score a true showcase of Wintory's talent as a composer, which is up there with the best of them. Sorry for rambling but god do I love this track. E: The bit once you go through the waterfall never fails to choke me up. Beautiful.
I will never forget experiencing this sequence in the game 7 years ago. I don’t have a “top ten” list of anything, but if I did this part would definitely be up there as one of my favorite sequences in video game history and a large part of that has to do with this song.
I love seeing the cues for when a section would begin, especially after watching you conduct Journey live in San Francisco while players played the game on stage. The music you created for Journey has brought such joy and deep emotion...thank you.
I may have commented here before, but I wanted to do it again: This piece of music brings tears to my eyes pretty much every time, which to me is the equivalent of actual raw crying. There is such intense and genuine catharsis for me every time I experience Apotheosis, and it's a huge and impactful part of what makes the ending of Journey so incredibly, incredibly powerful. I've sat here in my chair for at least ten minutes trying to put my other thoughts into words. And I can't, or at least not well. So all I can say, again and again, is: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So much.
After hearing your story about that one bugged playtest with the false ending; I do have to say that this piece absolutely carries the ending of the game on it's shoulders. Case in point, It's been a year since I played the game and suddenly hearing Section 4 I went from normal emotional baseline to laughter to crying in about a 3 second timeframe, because the music evoked the memory of the emotion in the moment(largely created by the score, so a feed-back-loop) so strongly. It surprised me because I wasn't looking to feel that. The game would be just ok without music; with music, it's a masterpiece.
This is a classic now, and a culmination of so many different aspects of good team work. It shows how healing music can be sometimes in combination with abstract ideas that find a solid base within the people who experience it and not only by the people who create it. It's priceless.
2:18 = Goosebumps all over. That particular bell is just exquisite to my ears, I can't really explain why. Also, I get an incredibly cathartic feeling whenever I listen to Section 6. Masterful work. Would you mind talking a bit about that "sampling" (for lack of a better word) that happens around 4:10-4:20? Is it me or there are some sounds in there that were extracted from other tracks but altered digitally?
My favorite moment in this whole track is actually the little descending figure in the strings at 0:08 that repeats every 2nd bar of a phrase. It sounds like the music briefly shifts into a fast 6/8. So cool.
The progression into that chord at 3:08 is so beautiful it makes my head spin. I kept relistening to that section over and over again, because there is just SO much impact. This is the sort of thing that inspires me to learn more about music theory and composition - the idea of better understanding how to create such a profound effect with music. Bravo!
Journey will forever be deeply rooted in the memories of so many gamers, musicians, and people who just love music and orchestra in general thanks to your talent to create such beautiful works of arts. The music and the game are so unique, it just feels like a dream, that you'd be so desperate to experience once again
I get chills, and a little teary eyed, every time I hear this (which is regularly). The uplifting crescendo after what came before (spoilers!), building before the summit, then ending in a most heartfelt note before for the return (more spoilers). However seeing it scored with your annotations brings even more meaning to it. Bravo and thank you Austin! (Bravi the musicians too)
Following along the score, with your cues, is such a huge help to all us junior composers who are willing to listen and learn. Thank you so much, Mr. Wintory. I hope one day to give an offering to the musical world like yours.
This song and this part of the game are my favorites, was expecting an ending after collapsing on the snow, but then you arise once more to reach your destination, with this song of background, the amazing and beautiful views on your screen, all mixed in one last journey to the peak. And the song title it's so well fitting for it, it's a wonderful piece, generates tons of emotions and feelings, for me this is your masterpiece. One piece that when you close your eyes, you can feel each note going through your body and mind with such ease, that you can feel even the clouds, that gonna make you tear up of pure emotion. A piece that not many gonna forget.
I cried the first time, and the first time I ever guided a first-timer to the summit... If I try to play again I might cry again. My current playthrough is at the base of the Mountian... Might finish it for the anni but I have Epic...
Everytime i comeback to this video i take something different away! Thank you for sharing this gem, thanks to you I m considering following composing! Really Austin, thanks for being such a big source of inspiration :-)
thank you for this uplifting experience. you have put everything i love into this soundtrack - bass flute, cello, harp, bells!... and loads and loads of beauty. so much beauty that no words can do it justice. you have my deep gratitude, master wintory
These videos are so awesome, Austin. Thank you for sharing them! This made me realize how similar composing for video games and musicals are--both require some wiggle room for what the "players" do. Very cool!
I recently saw the 8-bit Music Theory video on this piece and many others of yours! Truly astounding, I have been listening to this all day and I am seriously considering getting my friends and I to play this. There are no words I can use to describe how amazing this is other than describing the sheer density of emotion this piece has! Much respect!!!
i heard this wonderful soundtrack before i actually got to play the game, but then i did play the game, and then when the time came that i was almost at the peak, this started playing and i realised that the journey was about to come to a close, i won't lie: i bawled like a little baby! but while the ugly-tears were streaming down my face and shirt and my lap, i really couldn't keep my mouth from curling into a huge dumb smile, i was so swamped by both grief and overwhelming joy, because gods - what a beautiful journey it had been! i haven't been able to listen to this ost again without tears welling up in my eyes at around 3:03. your music has made such a powerful impact on me and so many others and i'm so happy that i've had the chance to hear it. thank you.
finished my first blind playthrough some days ago. words cannot describe the pain that i didnt know about this game 8 years ago. my heart is broken from this sound that can make angels weep...
When you finally my reach the top. I saw first play that you become another light and the camera zooms to where you started another journey awaits. I heard the plot follows a Hero’s Journey method.
I usually let this song loop on this part of the game by sitting down and moving after a while, but I know when I get near the whale 🐳 that is a climatic part, and I stay there the longest, as I don't want to go up into the light. Make Apotheosis last forever!
I remember when Amelia Watson streamed this game, and one player stuck with her all the way to the end...It made this piece hit different in the best of ways.
Playing this in Middlesbrough town hall at Animex with you conducting our local orchestra will forever be a happy memory of our two passions - gaming and music - coming together. Thanks Austin! Also just noticed you’ve been playing Erica with Bryan and Amelia - hadn’t realised you composed the score for that, will have to check it out now!
Ah yes loved this one as well. The scene when you fly around floating in the clouds. You had just gave out as it were reaching the snowy mountain but the flying part takes you to the peak and meet the light. Beautiful game and music. They have a PS4 version. As PS4 was out at this time. Fly little wander dude or whatever. It is not expressed what these creatures are. Totally random.
Love the breakdown! Many inspiring and true moments in this game; most taking place during this track and I pretty much tear up completing it every-time: Apotheosis is a very fitting name for this piece. Many great memories, but the main ones for me was when I realised the other player (who I'd solely journeyed with from the start) was always adjusting their speed to match mine on the final stretch and would also wait for me; it felt like they simply didn't want to go alone. So I decided to sit / meditate and reflect on this moment just before it is no longer possible to do this. The other player complied and also sat with me: We sat for quite a while staring at 'the end'...it was a very contemplative moment. It goes to show once you strip away gender, language and almost all forms of communication, some universal truths come to light. Very emotional and beautiful game and this is my favourite track.
From 2:12 till 2:45 my heart always skips a beat. Journey is the only perfect game by far: gameplay, storyline, graphics and the perfection is complete with your music. This piece is the star!
It's funny how every large symphony ends with an extended tutti from all the orchestra holding the tonic yet you decided to just end with an empty B from the cello. I cannot think for music's sake any other piece that does this.
@@awintory just quiet didn't describe what i had in mind , more like leaving the soloist alone to end the piece in a single line of music ending on an empty hovering note , mahler came close and probably thanks to the finality that it had as his last symphony and as the end of a historic musical era but it's not the same , no one has ever puted such a focus to a single instrument at the end of an orchestral piece (except maybe gyorg widmann )
This is so beautiful!! I haven't even played the game, but this piece is so wonderful, I love it so much! Also, I wonder if we could get an 'As noted' video about your other incredible piece, Danza alla Daggers, from Assassin's Creed. :) Maan, that one is also my favourite :D I appreciate your works so much Austin:)
I can’t Get my head around that, it really sound like a flute is being introduced. You hear the strings sharply up to that point, But suddenly this isolated soft sound emerges elegantly. I can’t imagine the first violins are able to produce such a delicate sound..!
Never thought I'd cry while watching a piece of sheet music For section 8c, starting from 5:14 to the end of the video. How many times is this theme played during the game? I can hear it or some variation of it in Nascence, The Call, Nadir and Apotheosis. Are there any other moments that I missed?
It's the main theme that forms the DNA of literally every note of the score. If you listen carefully, you'll realize you're hearing it *constantly* but often in different guises
@@awintory Thanks Austin! It's so heartwarming to see you taking the time to answer your fans' questions. I'm going to definitely listen to more of you work and follow your career closely This is one of my favorite albums ever and up there with Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns. I'd love for Apotheosis to be played during my inevitable funeral. Even though I'm not a musician I feel so close to the very concept of music when I'm listening to yours. You're an inspiration Austin!
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment but I'll still write it. I love all the soundtracks you composed in journey. I am learning music composition because i want people to have love towards each other, not hate. I wish to contribute something to this world but i do not know where to start. Could you possibly let me know what do i need to learn to be a music composer? I cannot pay for music schools so i am here with my journey alone figuring things out by myself, I don't want you to teach me everything, i just need is the map(the index of things which i need to learn to be a music composer and what things come under music theory etc) Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me move forward :)
@@awintory before you started composing what instrument did you play? from what you write I have to assume its from the string variety. You seem to understand the voices really well.
Sobbed like a schoolgirl during my first ever playthrough. The person I was going with and I had been together since the beginning, and they'd been so patient with me. There was one time they went AFK in front of a gravestone on the mountain and I stuck around, worried I'd lose them. But they got up, chimed quietly and continued up. Whenever I return to this title I gravitate toward give new players that same experience, circling that grave and making it clear I want them to sit a moment before we continue upwards.
I wish I could do the same, but the game keeps pairing with me with fully embroidered white robes that already know the ins and outs of the game. I only ever saw another red robe (7 of them, to be exact) during my first playthrough, and since then it's just whites. I guess there are just not that many new players anymore, but lots of veterans who want to help them.
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That walking into the light at the end... best moment in any game ever. And it was you that made it that way, Austin. I hope you know that.
I love how the harmonies that lead into a resolution resolve into something not quite finalizing, usually something that sets up a beginning for a transformation. This often changing the interpretation and perspective of previous harmonies' meaning and purpose, making the storytelling of the music so vivid and alive.
Apotheosis has to be my favourite track from the soundtrack, closely followed by The Road of Trials.
Just makes me want to keep fighting (and flying!)
Same! These two and Atonement.
Mr. Wintory, let me tell you something. If Michael Giacchino is the modern John Williams, then you sir are the modern Jerry Goldsmith, and I hope you realize the immensity of that compliment, but also that it is true. You have affected so many peoples lives because of the sheer emotion you convey in your work, and like Goldsmith's score to Rudy, the score to Journey inspires us to believe in the ability of a small, insignificant person to change lives and bring hope to the world. Your music is Art, and as Mr. Goldsmith once said, "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good." You have proven this to be true. For that, thank you so very much.
Regarding your description: You were given no "almost unfair advantage". This track was what convinced me to experience JOURNEY, not the other way around. JOURNEY is a masterpiece, but I'm not sure you are aware of just how responsible you are for it being a masterpiece. This is one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever encountered in my entire life; it has been from the first time I heard it, long before I had even downloaded the game.
I cannot put into words what your work means to me. So I'll simply say: Thank you.
Thank YOU! You're a rare exception
@@awintory same here. this song changed my entire life. i dont need to mention that i sobbed like a 7 year old school girl.
41 year male from china here. i lost it when i read THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THE JOURNEY...
yelling at my screen why the game devs thank me?! it must be the other way around. i salute you.
i wont forget this song for the rest of my life until the day i die. 🙌🙌🙌
@@cloudpandarism2627 wonderful to hear :)
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Same for me, my uncle recommended me this song, after that I chose to buy the game.
One of the best decisions I made.
The energetic, allmost playfull violins from Section 1 define the first half and give the listener a feeling of the strenght, gifted by the ancestors in white. And then Section 5, when the summit is in plain sight and nothing in the world can go wrong anymore. It is a perfect summary for the game and its goal. Everything is overcome and only pure good is left.
this song changed my entire life. i dont need to mention that i sobbed like a 7 year old school girl.
i lost it when i read THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THE JOURNEY...
yelling at my screen why the game devs thank me?! it must be the other way around. i salute you.
i wont forget this song for the rest of my life until the day i die. 🙌🙌
41 year male from china here.
You impacted so many people with that piece of music. And it will live forever and so will your name. Thank you.
Journey is a fantastic game best experienced by going into it blind. It's a game that truly gives meaning to the phrase "games as art".
Voted for the soundtrack in the Classic FM Hall of Fame this year to mark the 10th Anniversary of this masterpiece. Truly deserves to be regarded as one of the best alongside the musical geniuses such as Elgar and Tchaikovsky whom I also voted for as my other two choices with Nimrod Variations and 1812 overture being their pieces I voted for respectively.
Always brings me to tears, I think the game is a masterpiece but I think it would not be complete without the wonderful music you wrote for it which really does help uplift the story it tells.
This is the one. Bawled my eyes out during my first (coop) and second (solo) playthroughs the moment this started playing (doesn't help that the ascent hypes you up after all that just happened). And to this day, it still gets me bawling my eyes out, nose turned into a broken faucet, and goosebumps left and right. Safe to say that the final walk is my breaking point lol. And it doesn't help that right after comes Lisbeth Scott and opens the flood gates with "I Was Born For This" - same thing happened a few months prior when I finished MGS4 for the first time and "Here's To You" (aka "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti") started playing during the credits, this was my introduction to Lisbeth Scott.
I kinda started using Journey as my own "therapy" right after my first runs, my way of venting about stuff and letting it all out, and god damn it sure has been effective for almost a decade now (oh lookie look, as of the time of writing this comment, it's 2 days before March 12, so happy early 10th anniversary!). Doesn't matter how many times I've played it, it still feels like the first time. And even if I can't play the game, the soundtrack is just a few clicks away, and it's just as effective.
Pretty sure I've said it before on other videos and whatnot. But thank you, Austin.
1:39 transition to section 3 always gives me goosebumps .So breathtaking.
This looks quiet different on paper from what I expected. Very interesting, thank you for the insight!
Out of curiosity, different in what ways?
Austin Wintory Austin Wintory Didn’t hear the violas playing unis with v1 and v2 at the beginning, I thought it was the Celli playing the melody right after, not the violas 🙈(maybe I have bad ears). I somehow didn’t recognise the synth playing chords at all, I always thought it was the gong/bells adding some natural background harmony. The choir seemed rather real to me , just sounding "synth-like". In my defence, the piece is just too relaxing and beautiful, you can’t listen to it too analytical (only after looking at the score ofc)😎
I played Journey because of your compositions. When I selected it in the Playstore Nascence began playing, and I immediatley felt in love with the music, so I bought the game, and we all know the rest.
This song in combination with the "cloud surfing", is still one of the best gaming moments I ever had
One of my favorite tracks. It nails so many different emotional tones for me.
Esp. The transition just past 2:50
Oh man Journey means so much to me, the music is absolutely phenomenal and just gets me close to tears when I listen to it again, you did an amazing job ♥️💕
Thank you so much
@@awintory Ah I didn't know you did that too. (For shame!) It's a great little game! Are you/You are becoming the Troy Baker of video game scores?/! ;-)
I just beat this game again for the four for fifth time a couple nights ago, and every time I get to Apatheosis I always tear up at the end because of how beautiful it is.
Over the past month I have been swinging downwards in many ways. Last night I thought of listening to this on repeat, and it is bringing me some slow tears of release. 🥲 The stage of rebirth in the game that this goes with is helping me feel I can get through this and find my way back to walking in the light instead of emotional darkness.
This is genuinely one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard, which I don't say lightly. It's immediately clear there's skill and effort and thought behind this, from the instruments onwards, and the way it meshes with the game itself is downright perfect. It's rare that a soundtrack can make me feel what I was about to feel, if that makes sense. It was like going, "Yeah, that's exactly how I was about to feel!" every time a new section of this piece kicked in during the game and it elevated an already astounding experience to new heights. It's an absolute masterpiece and along with the rest of the stunning score a true showcase of Wintory's talent as a composer, which is up there with the best of them. Sorry for rambling but god do I love this track.
E: The bit once you go through the waterfall never fails to choke me up. Beautiful.
I will never forget experiencing this sequence in the game 7 years ago. I don’t have a “top ten” list of anything, but if I did this part would definitely be up there as one of my favorite sequences in video game history and a large part of that has to do with this song.
What an absolutely sublime piece of music.
Also, this really reminds me of Strauss' metamorphosen
This song always makes me cry
I love seeing the cues for when a section would begin, especially after watching you conduct Journey live in San Francisco while players played the game on stage. The music you created for Journey has brought such joy and deep emotion...thank you.
I may have commented here before, but I wanted to do it again: This piece of music brings tears to my eyes pretty much every time, which to me is the equivalent of actual raw crying. There is such intense and genuine catharsis for me every time I experience Apotheosis, and it's a huge and impactful part of what makes the ending of Journey so incredibly, incredibly powerful.
I've sat here in my chair for at least ten minutes trying to put my other thoughts into words. And I can't, or at least not well. So all I can say, again and again, is: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So much.
After hearing your story about that one bugged playtest with the false ending; I do have to say that this piece absolutely carries the ending of the game on it's shoulders. Case in point, It's been a year since I played the game and suddenly hearing Section 4 I went from normal emotional baseline to laughter to crying in about a 3 second timeframe, because the music evoked the memory of the emotion in the moment(largely created by the score, so a feed-back-loop) so strongly. It surprised me because I wasn't looking to feel that. The game would be just ok without music; with music, it's a masterpiece.
This is a classic now, and a culmination of so many different aspects of good team work. It shows how healing music can be sometimes in combination with abstract ideas that find a solid base within the people who experience it and not only by the people who create it. It's priceless.
2:18 = Goosebumps all over. That particular bell is just exquisite to my ears, I can't really explain why. Also, I get an incredibly cathartic feeling whenever I listen to Section 6. Masterful work.
Would you mind talking a bit about that "sampling" (for lack of a better word) that happens around 4:10-4:20? Is it me or there are some sounds in there that were extracted from other tracks but altered digitally?
My favorite moment in this whole track is actually the little descending figure in the strings at 0:08 that repeats every 2nd bar of a phrase. It sounds like the music briefly shifts into a fast 6/8. So cool.
The progression into that chord at 3:08 is so beautiful it makes my head spin. I kept relistening to that section over and over again, because there is just SO much impact. This is the sort of thing that inspires me to learn more about music theory and composition - the idea of better understanding how to create such a profound effect with music. Bravo!
Journey will forever be deeply rooted in the memories of so many gamers, musicians, and people who just love music and orchestra in general thanks to your talent to create such beautiful works of arts. The music and the game are so unique, it just feels like a dream, that you'd be so desperate to experience once again
I get chills, and a little teary eyed, every time I hear this (which is regularly). The uplifting crescendo after what came before (spoilers!), building before the summit, then ending in a most heartfelt note before for the return (more spoilers). However seeing it scored with your annotations brings even more meaning to it. Bravo and thank you Austin! (Bravi the musicians too)
Following along the score, with your cues, is such a huge help to all us junior composers who are willing to listen and learn. Thank you so much, Mr. Wintory. I hope one day to give an offering to the musical world like yours.
This has been my phone ringtone for the last two years. Beautiful soundtrack.
Its a shame I can no longer find the soundtrack on Spotify 😪
5:00 onward always makes me tear up... It's so beautiful
This song and this part of the game are my favorites, was expecting an ending after collapsing on the snow, but then you arise once more to reach your destination, with this song of background, the amazing and beautiful views on your screen, all mixed in one last journey to the peak.
And the song title it's so well fitting for it, it's a wonderful piece, generates tons of emotions and feelings, for me this is your masterpiece.
One piece that when you close your eyes, you can feel each note going through your body and mind with such ease, that you can feel even the clouds, that gonna make you tear up of pure emotion.
A piece that not many gonna forget.
So generous of you to share this with us. Thank you!
The bell plates are my favorite part of the whole soundrack
I cried the first time, and the first time I ever guided a first-timer to the summit... If I try to play again I might cry again. My current playthrough is at the base of the Mountian... Might finish it for the anni but I have Epic...
Everytime i comeback to this video i take something different away! Thank you for sharing this gem, thanks to you I m considering following composing! Really Austin, thanks for being such a big source of inspiration :-)
Thank you, that really means a lot
thank you for this uplifting experience. you have put everything i love into this soundtrack - bass flute, cello, harp, bells!... and loads and loads of beauty. so much beauty that no words can do it justice. you have my deep gratitude, master wintory
Thank you so much for doing this series ❤ So much to learn from it, and through that appreciate it all even more.
2:38: my eyes well everytime.
This piece. Transcendent and triumphant finality. Man.
These videos are so awesome, Austin. Thank you for sharing them!
This made me realize how similar composing for video games and musicals are--both require some wiggle room for what the "players" do. Very cool!
I recently saw the 8-bit Music Theory video on this piece and many others of yours! Truly astounding, I have been listening to this all day and I am seriously considering getting my friends and I to play this. There are no words I can use to describe how amazing this is other than describing the sheer density of emotion this piece has! Much respect!!!
So grateful his work brought you here and thank you for checking it out :)
This song never fails to give me goosebumps
i heard this wonderful soundtrack before i actually got to play the game, but then i did play the game, and then when the time came that i was almost at the peak, this started playing and i realised that the journey was about to come to a close, i won't lie: i bawled like a little baby! but while the ugly-tears were streaming down my face and shirt and my lap, i really couldn't keep my mouth from curling into a huge dumb smile, i was so swamped by both grief and overwhelming joy, because gods - what a beautiful journey it had been!
i haven't been able to listen to this ost again without tears welling up in my eyes at around 3:03. your music has made such a powerful impact on me and so many others and i'm so happy that i've had the chance to hear it. thank you.
Austin, you are just AWESOME!
I really appreciate your effort on your work. Love from Japan :D
Still playing Journey in 2019
In 2020!
@@neshrosuryoyo Played the first time in Dec. 2020. Finished with a Companion on New Year's Eve. A great way to end a hideous year.
finished my first blind playthrough some days ago.
words cannot describe the pain that i didnt know about this game 8 years ago.
my heart is broken from this sound that can make angels weep...
Just the chord alone at 3:07 makes this my favourite piece of music from a game haha
Simple, and perfect.
Absolutely incredible track, still gives me goosebumps now, thank you :)
Absolutely incredible. Very inspiring
Beautiful
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing your art!
Oh my heart, its weeping. Thank you.
When you finally my reach the top. I saw first play that you become another light and the camera zooms to where you started another journey awaits. I heard the plot follows a Hero’s Journey method.
Still makes me cry, 8yrs later😭😭😭😭
Love the implementation breakdown!
This will always be my single favorite song from any game, period. You're an absolute inspiration to so many people; thank you for all you do, Austin
4:30 so deep!!
I'm a simple man, I click, I hear, I cry xD
I love this so much! I only know how to read treble clef... but I still love and respect your work! Thank you for sharing your gifts!
Absolutely wonderful...
In section 4 and 5, the Cello went crazy! :)
i sobbed so much on my first playthrough, this game...
I usually let this song loop on this part of the game by sitting down and moving after a while, but I know when I get near the whale 🐳 that is a climatic part, and I stay there the longest, as I don't want to go up into the light. Make Apotheosis last forever!
@Austin Wintory Apotheosis for 10 hours loop?
Beautiful.
I remember when Amelia Watson streamed this game, and one player stuck with her all the way to the end...It made this piece hit different in the best of ways.
Playing this in Middlesbrough town hall at Animex with you conducting our local orchestra will forever be a happy memory of our two passions - gaming and music - coming together. Thanks Austin!
Also just noticed you’ve been playing Erica with Bryan and Amelia - hadn’t realised you composed the score for that, will have to check it out now!
Ah yes loved this one as well. The scene when you fly around floating in the clouds. You had just gave out as it were reaching the snowy mountain but the flying part takes you to the peak and meet the light. Beautiful game and music. They have a PS4 version. As PS4 was out at this time. Fly little wander dude or whatever. It is not expressed what these creatures are. Totally random.
Love the breakdown! Many inspiring and true moments in this game; most taking place during this track and I pretty much tear up completing it every-time: Apotheosis is a very fitting name for this piece.
Many great memories, but the main ones for me was when I realised the other player (who I'd solely journeyed with from the start) was always adjusting their speed to match mine on the final stretch and would also wait for me; it felt like they simply didn't want to go alone. So I decided to sit / meditate and reflect on this moment just before it is no longer possible to do this. The other player complied and also sat with me: We sat for quite a while staring at 'the end'...it was a very contemplative moment.
It goes to show once you strip away gender, language and almost all forms of communication, some universal truths come to light.
Very emotional and beautiful game and this is my favourite track.
Listening to this on a Sunday... great music!
I loved your new work from Erica!! Thank you!
Stay tuned! Next "As Noted" :)
♥!
From 2:12 till 2:45 my heart always skips a beat.
Journey is the only perfect game by far: gameplay, storyline, graphics and the perfection is complete with your music. This piece is the star!
I actually didnt notice measure 2 has a slightly different ostinato. It's good subtle variation.
I absolutely love this.
It's funny how every large symphony ends with an extended tutti from all the orchestra holding the tonic yet you decided to just end with an empty B from the cello.
I cannot think for music's sake any other piece that does this.
There are many quiet endings I love, probably above all the Brahms 3rd Symphony's final movement, and the staggering ending to Mahler's 9th.
@@awintory just quiet didn't describe what i had in mind , more like leaving the soloist alone to end the piece in a single line of music ending on an empty hovering note , mahler came close and probably thanks to the finality that it had as his last symphony and as the end of a historic musical era but it's not the same , no one has ever puted such a focus to a single instrument at the end of an orchestral piece (except maybe gyorg widmann )
Breathtaking
This is so beautiful!! I haven't even played the game, but this piece is so wonderful, I love it so much!
Also, I wonder if we could get an 'As noted' video about your other incredible piece, Danza alla Daggers, from Assassin's Creed. :)
Maan, that one is also my favourite :D
I appreciate your works so much Austin:)
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03:12 is that really first violin playing the high pitched melody? It sounds way more like a piccolo!
hehe yep! Violins only!
I can’t Get my head around that, it really sound like a flute is being introduced.
You hear the strings sharply up to that point, But suddenly this isolated soft sound emerges elegantly. I can’t imagine the first violins are able to produce such a delicate sound..!
You sir, are a fucking genius😍
Never thought I'd cry while watching a piece of sheet music
For section 8c, starting from 5:14 to the end of the video. How many times is this theme played during the game?
I can hear it or some variation of it in Nascence, The Call, Nadir and Apotheosis. Are there any other moments that I missed?
It's the main theme that forms the DNA of literally every note of the score. If you listen carefully, you'll realize you're hearing it *constantly* but often in different guises
@@awintory Thanks Austin! It's so heartwarming to see you taking the time to answer your fans' questions. I'm going to definitely listen to more of you work and follow your career closely
This is one of my favorite albums ever and up there with Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns. I'd love for Apotheosis to be played during my inevitable funeral.
Even though I'm not a musician I feel so close to the very concept of music when I'm listening to yours. You're an inspiration Austin!
Will we ever get a HQ version of the ingame version of The Road of Trials
well at least now I know why I cried like a little bitch at the end of the game ...
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment but I'll still write it. I love all the soundtracks you composed in journey. I am learning music composition because i want people to have love towards each other, not hate. I wish to contribute something to this world but i do not know where to start. Could you possibly let me know what do i need to learn to be a music composer? I cannot pay for music schools so i am here with my journey alone figuring things out by myself, I don't want you to teach me everything, i just need is the map(the index of things which i need to learn to be a music composer and what things come under music theory etc)
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me move forward :)
For once the violas have the melody. I am shookth
Not unusual for me! :)
@@awintory before you started composing what instrument did you play? from what you write I have to assume its from the string variety. You seem to understand the voices really well.
Section 6: cues
Me: 😭
OH WAIT ITS AUSTIN shoot XD
My god
Wow
I prefere abzu from journey,it's less lonely because of the animals.