All Original Music Score for TES 4 Oblivion

All music included in this zip file and listed below composed and recorded by John Currier.
All music included in this zip file and listed below copyright 2006 John Currier and Mashed Buddha.
You may listen to these audio files on your computer, your mp3 player, burn them to a CD.
You may not sell or distribute this music.

Instructions: If you downloaded the entire soundtrack (116mb zip file) unzip in your game's root directory or C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion and overwrite all files with the directory structure intact. If you downloaded the six smaller zip files you may do the same, unzip each in your game's root directory or C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion

5/19/2006
After several weeks of intense composing, recording, and mixing in my basement home studio, I've completed 30 pieces of original music to fully replace the original score for the PC game TES4: Oblivion. Stylistically, the music I created is mostly classical and cinematic, using traditional orchestral instruments and occasional choir sounds via MIDI. There is plenty of ambient material. In a handful of pieces there are elements of electronica and drums, as well as a good deal of acoustic piano in others. Here's a little more detail:

Dungeons
These range from very creepy ethereal washes of sound to slow subterranean harmonies. Thief like sounds here and there and over all designed to draw you in deeper. These are 4 to 6 minutes long, considerably longer than what came with the game. The music switches to combat often underground, but extended explorations without enemies is rewarding. Which is why I recommend a mod that slows or stops respawning in dungeons. Also longer themes lend well to sneaking and trap heavy dungeons.

Battle
The battle themes are complex and appropriately in your face. They vary greatly but all should get your adrenaline flowing. They are about the same lengths as the originals (1:00 to 1:30 min)

Explore
These are the songs that play outside of towns, roaming the countryside on your horse or searching for plants. These themes are ambient yet melodic, at once beautiful and dark.

Public
The music you hear in towns and cities. Music from the Explore folder also plays at these locations. Hopefully there's some interesting variety here, without being obtrusive. Two of the pieces, Tavern Life 1 and 2 ( town_03.mp3 and town_05.mp3) are what I imagine talented medieval bar musicians would play. The instrumentation is mostly lute, recorder, and some simple percussion.

Special
The TES4 theme is here, and I came up with my own version. This plays at the menu screen. Also there are the two short pieces for the death and success screens, which I also replaced with my own. Finally there is the LauncherMusic.wav which goes in the main Oblivion folder and, yes I even replaced that. Whew!

Mashed Buddha is my solo electronica project.

http://www.mashedbuddha.com

You may also visit http://www.johncurrier.com/ where I have videos of me playing keys.

You may email me with comments, questions, whatever:
john@mashedbuddha.com

If you email me for advice on music/recording and I give it, all I ask is that you say thank you in return.

Thanks for downloading and I hope you enjoy the music!