River's End Times - Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (The Lost Reels)

The Lost Reels are a reprise for Echoes of the Eye. When I wrote Outer Wilds - Reprise, I wanted to share my memories of the game as a drifting emotion - a fainting thought that could have been lost in a signal further than ever in the distance When I finished writing the music for Echoes, these characters felt like friends that I’d never see again. It has been a wonderful experience to enter their world again and revisit them. Lost Reels jumps head-first into the Outer Wilds idea of an existential awakening, as well as the alternative Echoes of the Eye touches on - a descent into madness. The most exciting thing for me to think about was, “What if the Outer Wilds universe was real and we heard an alien Voyager sending out their own Golden Record message as signals found deep in space? How would we translate them and how could we connect with their melodies as a reflection on our own lives if we are already living them? The new compositions are a reminiscence of everything that Outer Wilds and the community has meant to me.