Sophie Nguyen Week #11 - Chaos Language
A popular video game, titled NieR:Automata is famous not only for its brilliant mechanics, story, and design, but also for the music. As I had watched every member of my family play the video game, I was mostly interested in the music. Almost it’s entire playlist is made up of songs in a language that does not actually exist called “chaos language”. The songs were written by Keiichi Okabe, a Japanese composer who worked with Emi Evans to write the lyrics. Okabe would go to Evans to tell her the languages in which he wanted the words to sound like, to which in turn, Evans would study the language and create words. In NeiR , Evans and Okabe combined their skills to seamlessly transition into new atmospheres. For example, when in the campsite, the music and singing would be more peaceful. After a boss fight, the music would become sullen and more dramatic, almost as if it was mourning a loss (Ave Maria esque). ...

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