Every moment in life has its own soundtrack, be it the chirping of birds, the ringing of silence or the rock hard metal of fighting a monster made of your own anger and fear. It enriches and seasons what is already there, it lets us gain another perspective and perhaps relate in a different way.

Yair: The music in ISM is as important to the story as music is to you in your daily life. It also connects to the tape motif and the idea of playing back their stories to know more about them also from an emotional point of view. so we wrote the songs in such a way to give each character an identity. TLT: The idea from the very beginning was to have a full song made for each character’s story, and then have the soundtrack made based on each song, we believe It helps to ground you into how the characters are feeling because it’s like how anyone can have their own personal favorite genre of music, or a song that really speaks to them.

How important is the music, both the soundtrack and the score, to In Sound Mind? And how does music tie into the game’s universe at large? Today is National Music Day, and to celebrate we asked In Sound Mind’s lead writer Yair Ben-Dor and composer The Living Tombstone (TLT), some questions about the music in the upcoming psychological horror game! Take a deep dive into their creative process, the importance of the music and score of In Sound Mind, and more in the interview below.

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