Austin Wintory is a film and video game music composer. In film, he is well… Read Full Bio ↴Austin Wintory is a film and video game music composer. In film, he is well known for the 2009 Sundance hit GRACE, as well as the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winner CAPTAIN ABU RAED. His score for the former garnered many horror film genre accolades, including a nomination at the 2010 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for 'Best Original Score,' and Vision in Sound's Top Ten Scores for 2009. The latter was listed by the LA Times as a contender for the 2009 Academy Awards for 'Best Original Score' and also won Austin the Hollywood Music Award for "Best New Composer." The combined success of those films, along with several others, prompted The Hollywood Reporter to list Austin as one of 15 composers "Primed to take their place on the A-list," as well as a nomination by the International Film Music Critics Association for "Breakout Composer of the Year."

In addition to feature films, Austin has a tremendous passion for the world of game scoring. His first major game score for thatgamecompany's flOw in 2006 earned Austin a British Academy Award nomination and triple nominations at the Game Audio Network Guild awards ("Innovative use of Audio," "Best Interactive Score" and winning for "Rookie of the Year."). Perhaps most notably, his score for thatgamecompany's much lauded 'Journey' (2012) debuted as #1 in iTunes' game soundtrack charts, and made history as the only video game score to be nominated for the Grammy 2012 Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media. He also scored 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate' (2015), which won International Film Music Critics Association Awards's "Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media" award, and 'The Pathless' (2020), which won Game Audio Network Guild Awards's "Best Music for an Indie Game" award.

Austin also maintains a busy schedule writing concert music and composing/producing albums. In addition to more traditional chamber and orchestral music, in 2010 he released a meditation album entitled "Sounds of Darkness" using never-before recorded sacred Aztec chants. 2010 also saw the launch of Allogamy, an ambitious blog in collaboration with photographer Andrew Berglund which posts a new photo with a new piece of music for every single day in the year.

Since 2003, Wintory has composed over three hundred musical scores.

Nadir
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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

An Artist

5y↑34

This song.

It sounds so different.

It sounds so different without the groans of agony and suffering from the steel giants titled 'guardians' but truely deemed nightmares.

It sounds so different without the crashes of thunder and howling of winds, it sounds so different without the slow, weak and slowing footsteps of a Rythulian clinging to their mission tight; begging not to let go just yet as the mountain disappears in the storm clouds, the light dimming as the nightmares close in forced by a machida of their own imprisonment.

It sounds so different without the fast beating heartbeat of a frightened and worried player, who doesn't want the journey to end, not like this, not here, not in such a heart wrenching manner. 'This can't be it,' they would whisper, 'this just can't.'

Autumn Moon

8y↑4

Lyna Gucci
Everything is...
turning white...
But yet i see..
Figures...
Who are they..
They seem familiar...
They are gathered around me...
protecting me...
raising me up...
giving me...
a second chance.

A final ray of light as I rise through the clouds.
Is this... Heaven?
I held my breath as I looked up to see the mountain.
Standing tall and still
It was so close yet so far away... I need to reach it...
Its my...
Final Destination

I fell...
All power had been drained from me...
I guess.... that...
my time has come...
I guess its time...
that I leave this world and...
transcend into the next...

The white light surrounds me...
All is clear now...
I have joined..
them...

A new soul emerges...
From where I left...
to do the cycle over again..
To follow in my footsteps...
Its now time for them to begin...
their...
Journey

All comments from YouTube:

TheSchokodragon

11y↑44

2:36 gives me the shivers. This lonely violin in the chaos of cellos sounds like the last sign of hope, a candle in the frozen land, a silent, beautiful voice in the middle of the horror. Amazing game with an amazing soundtrack.

Arluy

Completely agree

DoubleM89

10y↑68

never has my heart beat so fast playing this part, it forces you to feel what your character is enduring, pain and suffering, its really gripping. and when my character fell, I just sat in silence. I once said this game is the definition of genius and I stand by what I said.

An Artist

5y↑34

Justsomefreeloader

8y↑29

The way that they subtlety included Nascence in this was truly genius. Really shows how far the journey has progressed.

RinoaDestiny

12y↑2

I just played it tonight - well, last night, to be frank with the time - and this part actually caused me to freak out. I suddenly couldn't see the mountain anymore and probably like I would in real life, started turning around my camera angle to try to find it. When I couldn't, I started walking and stopping in multiple directions. I was at a loss. I only started walking forward again because my friends were saying to go on. A second later, both me and my companion fell.

EpicEcho

12y↑5

I know it's like a "okay...stay calm...stay calm", but the chaos is too overwhelming. GAAHHH!!! GOOSEBUMPS!!! This soundtrack LITERALLY speaks to me!!

DeadPhoenX

11y↑17

Kinda got screwed outta my scarf length from the underground passage. My older partner left, and I was paired with a White Robe that was flying everywhere while I couldn't do anything, going way ahead of me at times, yet he still waited. Then he was hit by a dragon. I moved ahead since, but this time I was waiting for him. I was desperately chiming for him, but by that point in the mountain, the chimes could barely illuminate. I moved ahead and waited for him at the exit. He never arrived.

penguinman148

7y↑32

0:30

When you spot a Guardian coming around a mountain.

Just imagine it with the tons of snow that's flying around.

CampingforCool41

9y↑31

I almost wish they included the wind and thunder sounds in this. It makes it much more powerful in the game.

yoshimario40

11y↑3

"You can't feel what you see... But you can feel what you don't see. Is that what you're trying to tell me?" "And so... walk that path until the End, so you don't regret anything."

WolfysEyes

12y↑1

The utter stunned horror at this scene still clings to me. The realization that I lost sight of the summit. And then I noticed my partner had fallen. And then I fell soon after... ...words fail.

bitt

3y↑3

even though i watched a play through of this game before playing it, i still got emotional, this game is fucking amazing

KpopGaming Studios

12y

I was trying to reassure my partner that we were going to make it... and then they fell... I was utterly shocked and turned to face them when I fell too. This game does something that a lot of video games these days don't do... they stir up emotions in you, they make you feel for the characters you are playing as, and ever for the complete stranger who joined you. It is an amazing (and sometimes scary) feeling.

Shark Fact Storage

11y↑3

As the cruel wind bites And the guardians draw near The light seems so close...

Sam Clayton

11y↑24

nadir n. - the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.

wxixl

11y

I also fell behind and had to trek the rest of the way alone. It was devastating despite there were a few bits of life scattered along the snow where you can feel warmth but just for a moment. Although lonely after losing two of my companions I had to continue alone. Truly a remarkable experience.

0runcmd0

12y↑1

Austin Wintory is one of my favorite modern classical composers. I find it quite amazing how many people have given him their support, which he is well deserving of. Keep music in schools!!:)

Katie Scott

12y↑2

a moment of silent respect for the friendships that were forged and lost in this game.

Skye Magus

12y

i just got this game yesterday... it's 7:50 am... i played it through in 2 hours and honestly... i don't know why i haven't played this months ago... it changed my life almost as much as the Alchemist xD so much to this game and the graphics, the soundtrack, the whole experience just makes me feel so alive xD i completely agree with you ;)

SerenityMoon92

12y↑4

2:37 omgsh the mellow theme of journey that the violin plays in the background of this part with all the chaos of the other music makes it that much more haunting...

Rulonian Vanguard

9y↑34

The calls of the dreaded Guardians will haunt me to this day...

Fionyx

3y↑1

Most artists think that to make a sad moment in their song, they have to make it overly melancholy and slow, but this isn't actually the best way to do it. Then, what is the best way to make a sad moment in a song? Austin Wintory demonstrates the perfect example at 3:09. Silence. Nothing but silence and a single piercing note played on a stringed instrument.

Zach Lee

11y↑3

Works perfectly with what happens during this soundtrack.

King Sean

9y↑5

The soundtrack and the atmosphere of the game remind me of director Terrence Malick filmmaking style. For the ones who don't know what i mean check out one of his movies, the similarities are not in the plot but in the feelings.

Nesto Navalo

11y

or as I imagined the monster ravaging a person unwilling to surrender even through the most painful of moments, the final march through a hell of blistering cold that shudders the bravest to the core, until finally you witness your partner fall beside you followed by yourself. Truly horrifying in my opinion.

Excuritas

11y↑1

Yeah truly one of the best Soundtracks and Game of all time, hope unfinished swan is nice too

Terrance

I'm over ten years late but I hope you enjoyed The Unfinished Swan

Excuritas

@Terrance omg xD yes I did enjoy it as well :3

alfirin657

11y↑1

What wonderful cello!

Edric L.

11y↑19

To the peak it lay, scurried and beat, To climb the goal with tiring feat. Ascend through ruin, descend through cold, That wrought with indefensible old. None assure but remain at rest, Of lesser souls of failure test. In primed and ready, that slowly meet, That to attend the ancient greet.

MyEternalDarkness

12y↑1

Playing this part all by yourself is horrible, I was totally alone in the storm!... With a companion is completely different *_*

Bridget Rocks

Brings back memories of holding forward the control stick in desperation. Get up! Keep going!

Bananana

5y↑5

I haven't played Journey so I have no idea what the storyline is

And yet I'm freaking out!

Rutger van den Heuvel

11y↑2

That moment when you're twisting the camera in every (impossible) way so you can see where the heck those war machines are at.

KumoriShichiyou

11y↑4

This is the music that nightmares are made of. (But in a good way.)

Lemon

11y↑2

I spent twenty minutes hiding in those little shelters peeing my pants waiting for those machines to take their course. It took me forever just to cross to the end.

Lyn

9y↑20

am i the only one who was like: At snowy part WE GOTTA FUCKING MAKE IT YOU BETTER DONT GIVE UP ON ME
and wen we reached the end: lays hand on chest crying We're Here...We made it... ;-; THE FEELS MAN

Autumn Moon

8y↑2

+Lyna Gucci YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE

Autumn Moon

8y↑1

Lyna Gucci I was so touched that i wrote a poem about it XD ;-; its rlly sad

Autumn Moon

8y↑4

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GamePodify

12y

I remember that my partner was a few meters in front of me. And i could not catch up. I saw that our scarf's was blown away, but i could not catch up tu may partner. I called for him in despiration (with "O") several times, as i started panic. He did not wait, and when i saw that he fell, I was so sad that i had failed him. I thougth that we had lost the game since we did not stand together in the most critical time.

wenaldy

11y

Nadir means saturated point, the highest, hardest achivement you got.

Daniel Va

11y↑1

You'll have 290 thumbs up in no-time.

iioi3

12y↑1

How can this only have 290 views? MOAR people must hear the beauty of Journey arrrggg NERD RAGE

Jackie Estacado

11y

This explain what's inside me.

Maria29493

12y↑1

It's actually worse if you're with someone, especially if you've been playing with them for awhile.

Terrance

Everyone is talking about other players. I'm thinking about three poor cloth creatures that were either destroyed by the guardians or succumbed to the extreme cold.

theyrzero

12y

This song doesn`t seem to the game. It`s as if you`re escaping the jaws of a monster!

Katie Scott

12y

definition of Nadir- the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair... well no wonder this is such a tear-jerker.

OpticFeline

11y

I want this game on Xbox!!

VeyZ Art

11y↑2

I get cold listening to this X3

SplitxHeart

11y

Uhm... sorry, but if you had an ear for the instruments, you could clearly hear the icy storm though it. The the violins alone made an awesome job of creating that atmosphere from the game, when snow and ice cut's your scarf like blades through paper. The strong winds that blow you easily from left to right and the drums just stomped you into the ground like the thunder and lightning which followed you on the way up the montain. But maybe you just lack of imagination.

Samwise Gamgee

I AM SUDDENLY FREEZING COLD AND FEEL TERROR

Maria29493

12y

When I said worse I meant more tense.

Ryan Kim

11y

they can't, since the game was licensed by Sony and therefore are only limited to the PS3 for this game. Hopefully they create some DLC or something that allows PC players to play it too, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen anytime soon

Zogger568

11y↑2

THIS MAKES ME REALLY TENSE

SlusheeWolf2

When your IRL name is the song title lol

İrem Demirci

nadir means rare in turkish

LittleGreenDog

11y

Only the best games are on PS3. c:

MyEternalDarkness

12y

Yeah, you right ç_ç

Static Overdose

11y↑4

One effing dislike... ONE EFFING DISLIKE! Hope he/she gets abandoned by his/her companion and get eaten by the monsters in the cave.

Walky Lyz

11y

Thanks, Sub-Zero

Nadir Sheikh

11y↑1

quite a journey... pffffffffffff

RaigyoEcU

11y

those 290 people are now 36361 and soon there will be more :)

Patrick Smith

11y

It's the opposite actually.

ShadowFlameArmoury

11y↑1

Without PCs you wouldnt have your precious PS3 or Xbox. PCs rock!

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