About ‘Tender Hooks’

Andy Turner of Plaid describe how their track for Chime Super Deluxe came to life: “We were keen to push the Chime engine for this composition.’Tender Hooks’ is based around loops written in 5/4 and 2/4 time allowing the track to switch between these time signatures to emphasize the gamers’ progress through the level. We set a grid of 40 units giving the possibility of loops of either 4 bars of 5/4 time, or 10 bars of 2/4 time with an 8th note quantization, or alternately 2 bars of 5/4 or 5 bars of 2/4 with a 16th note quantization. We chose a musical key that we hope feels driving and has a sense of urgency. We wanted the players input to be the biggest part of the track and so we made the ‘block’ sound the dominant lead; having it triggering randomly to emulate game play whilst we wrote the interchangeable loops that should provide a rich texture underneath. Hopefully this will focus the player on their game rather than distracting them. We hope the player enjoys their part in writing ‘Tender Hooks’ as much as we have ours.