Halo 5: Guardians Original Soundtrack credits

The Halo 5: Guardians Original Soundtrack credits is a list of credits for people who worked on the original soundtrack of Halo 5: Guardians.

Tracks

Disc 1

1 _ Halo Canticles 2 _ Light is Green 3 _ Kamchatka 4 _ Return to the Fold 5 _ Rock and Ice 6 _ Argent Moon 7 _ Scavengers 8 _ In Absentia

9 _ Meridian Crossing 10 _ Unearthed 11 _ Unconfirmed Reports 12 _ Keeper of Secrets 13 _ Cavalier 14 _ Crossed Paths 15 _ Untethered 16 _ Skeleton Crew

17 _ Siren Song 18 _ Enemy of my Enemy 19 _ Honor's Song 20 _ Warrior World 21 _ Covenant Prayers 22 _ Cloud Chariot 23 _ Sentry Battle 24 _ Worldquake

Disc 2

1 _ Advent 2 _ Walk Softly 3 _ Genesis 4 _ Dominion 5 _ The Trials

6 _ Sentinel Song 7 _ Crypt 8 _ End Game 9 _ Reunion 10 _ Blue Team

11 _ Jameson Locke 12 _ Osiris Suite, Act 1 13 _ Osiris Suite, Act 2 14 _ Osiris Suite, Act 3 15 _ Osiris Suite, Act 4

Commentaries

Kazuma Jinnouchi

On November 18, 2013, I was in a room with Tim and Josh, as well as the audio and narrative teams to present my first pass draft of Locke's theme. As soon as I finished playing the demo, the discussion went well beyond the music - who this new Spartan is, where he is coming from, and so on. For composers, it is always inspiring to talk outside of music language, and our discussion was no exception. After we spoke, I immediately went back to my studio. Two weeks later, we had our new musical foundation for Jameson Locke.

A year later, I was at Abbey Road Studios with Nobuko and our wonderful music team to record this theme. Music production involves not only composition, but also orchestration, preparation, performance and engineering. When you have such an amazing music team, who can see the true identity in each piece of music, you realize how music can evolve beyond what you initially imagined.

I am thrilled to be a part of this evolving Halo universe. On behalf of the team who is striving for the best Halo 5: Guardians experience, I sincerely hope you enjoy our fresh new take on each sound and the story we're telling through our music.

Composer

Kazuma Jinnouchi

Frank O'Connor

Over the years, I've had the tremendous honor of previewing almost every Halo soundtrack. For me, music has always been the most gripping mnemonic aspect of any media - movie, TV or game. And I've always taken a kind of giddy pleasure in exploring our game's canvas through the music first - imagining frantic fights, towering Forerunner constructs, or emotionally charged reunions. Premonitions of the final game experience, sometimes months before the final pixels are painted.

So in closing my eyes during Halo Canticle, I'm fitting through familiar places, reliving adventures I haven't had yet, and playing with the malleable nature of my own memory.

Kazuma has created something entirely new here, and yet it's anchored in traditions and emotional resonances that have made the Halo series musically remarkable, and it's been a privilege to hear it for you first, and tell you to close your eyes, and let it wash over you, and swim deeper into it.

Franchise Development Director

Frank O'Connor

Nobuko Toda

Kazuma and I started our journey on Halo projects back in 2012 with his theme from Halo 4, "117." Having known his music for over 15 years through our collaboration on a number of projects, I strongly believe in his music, and it is always exciting to listen to his demo, and envision its final form. I can feel the love he felt toward the project, and the experience he envisioned through music.

Given a role to add final touch to the music, to enhance its expression with more depth, my focus was to assemble the best Halo 5: Guardians music team to ensure that the orchestral performance is maximized, production value is at its best, and its sonic quality enhances overall audio experience of the game as a whole.

From all around the world, Seattle, Tokyo, Los Angeles, London and Prague, the best creative minds were gathered, and became a wonderful music team. In addition to expressing my sincere appreciation to the team that has poured their utmost energy in Kazuma's music, I feel excited that we are able to express through music, the passions of our music team to the Halo fans all over the world.

Executive Music Producer/Orchestrator,

Nobuko Toda

Tim Longo

Every generation has its grand science-fiction franchise that transcends the collective consciousness of the world. Few span multiple generations. Halo is one of those that has pushed through to become a pervasive part of the gaming and pop culture zeitgeist and Halo's musical scores have always been a major part why that is the case. With such a rich musical legacy throughout the series, each new addition to that legacy has a lot to prove. With Kazuma and his team's work on the Halo 5: Guardians score it is no different. This score brings together an amazingly wide yet deep amount of experiential and emotional perspectives into one enormous soundtrack that completely deserves to become a part of the Halo canon. We have the classic hero and thus the classic themes to accompany our core story of Master Chief and Blue Team. We also have the exciting new musical perspectives of a rich set of Spartans on an impossible mission in the form of Spartan Locke and Fireteam Osiris. We gave Kazuma and his team the impossible task to create hours of unforgettable compositions that would span multiple worlds, game experiences, and emotional journeys and still feel cohesive and purely Halo. They have done just that. It was an honor to sit in our audio sessions and iterate, discuss and be blown away by Kazuma's work. As I listen to the score, while I write this, I know you too will be overwhelmed with this grand science-fiction touchstone.

Creative Director

Tim Longo

Credits

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Music by Kazuma Jinnouchi

Music Production: London & Los Angeles

Executive Music Producer - Nobuko Toda

Music Production - FILM SCORE LLC

Studio Manager: Abbey Road Studios - Colette Barbar

Studio Manager: Air Studios - Lucy Matthews

Recording Engineer

Peter Cobbin

Sam Okell

Geoff Foster

Assistant Score Engineer

Lewis Jones

Matt Jones

John Barrett

Stefano Civetta

John Prestage

Laurence Anslow

Orchestra and Theme Choir Recorded at

Abbey Road Studios, London

Air Studios, London

Orchestra Contractor - Isobel Griffiths

Assistant Orchestra Contractor - Lucy Whalley

Orchestrated by - Nobuko Toda

Music Preparation Supervisor - Thanh Tran

Music Preparation

Nick Petrillo

Breton Vivian

Music Copyist

Tina Tamura

Junko Tamura

Librarian for Choir

Phil Knights

Conducted by

Matt Dunkley

Gavin Greenaway

Orchestra Leader - Thomas Bowes

Violins

Everton Nelson Magnus Johnston Dai Emanuel Ian Humphries Christina Emanuel John Bradbury Maciej Rakowski Gillian Findlay Laura Melhuish Jim McLeod Oli Langford Cathy Thompson Martin Burgess Rose Warren-Green

Clare Thompson Shlomy Dobrinsky Thomas Kemp Patrick Kiernan Emlyn Singleton Corinne Chapelle Jonathan Strange Paul Willey Rita Manning Gaby Lester Chris Tombling Lorraine McAslan Sonia Slany Bea Lovejoy

Kathy Gowers Tom Pigott-Smith Benedict Cruft Ralph De Souza Steve Morris Perry Montague-Mason Philippe Honore Boguslaw Kostecki Mark Berrow Roger Garland Debbie Widdup Jonathan Evans-Jones Warren Zielinski Dorina Markoff

Violas

Bruce White Rachel Bolt Nick Barr Martin Humbey Clive Howard Fiona Bonds

Pete Lale Julia Knight Catherine Bradshaw Richard Cookson Jake Walker Clare Finnimore

Kate Musker Andy Parker Reiad Chibah Paul Cassidy Garfield Jackson

Celli

Ian Burdge Tony Woollard Paul Kegg Frank Schaefer Julia Graham Caroline Dearnley

Chris Worsey Tim Gill Emma Black David Lale Brian O'Kane Sophie Harris

Lionel Handy Anthony Lewis Nick Cooper Dave Daniels Jonathan Williams

Basses

Chris Laurence Steve Mair Mary Scully

Richard Pryce Stacey Watton Allen Walley

Andy Marshall Steve Williams

French Horns

Richard Watkins Sam Jacobs Nigel Black Richard Berry

Katy Woolley John Ryan Laurence Davies Nicholas Korth

David Pyatt Richard Bissill Simon Rayner Philip Eastop

Trumpets

Phil Cobb

Kate Moore

Alistair Mackie

Christian Barraclough

Simon Munday

Tenor Trombone

Richard Edwards

Mark Nightingale

Bass Trombone

Dave Stewart

Andy Wood

Keith McNicoll

Tuba/Cimbasso

Owen Slade

Nick Hitchens

Pete Smith

Piano - Iain Farrington

Percussion - Frank Ricotti

Drums - Paul Clarvis

Chorus for Halo Canticle - London Voices

Chorus Masters - Terry Edwards and Ben Parry

Sopranos

Sara Brimer

Joanna Forbes-Lestrange

Joanna Eteson

Rosalind Waters

Altos

Catherine Backhouse

Judy Rees

Tamsin Dalley

Clara Sanabras

Tenors

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