Dining In The Void - Ali Hylton - You Probably Shouldn’t Trust Me
The piece of music we're listening to in the background is called You Probably Shouldn't Trust Me. It's a villain theme song from season two of the audio drama Dining In The Void, a sci-fi podcast about sleuthing and secrets in space. Today, we'll break it down and get into why and how it was made. You're listening to How I Make Music, we're audio drama composers get to tell their own stories. Every Wednesday, we break apart a song, soundtrack or composition and take a trip into how it was made. My name is Ali Hylton. I'm a synesthetic podcast creator and composer located in South Texas, and this is How I Make Music. Welcome back to How I Make Music Episode 88. And you can trust me when I say this is the song You Probably Shouldn't Trust Me by me, Ali Hylton, who you can trust. Thanks for listening in. 01:19 ABOUTDining In The Void is about six alien celebrities and they're all brought on to a space station for a dinner party. Upon arrival, they find out that someone has trapped them. And someone among them has trapped them there. Who trapped in there, why are they trapped? It's basically like Clue in space. And really gay...is like...a simple way of explaining it.01:49 SYNESTHESIA So I have this thing, kind of a condition called synesthesia. So when I hear music or voices or just sound in general, my brain tells me what color that is. When I was a kid, I would sit on the bus and close my eyes and kind of move my hands and the gesture of how the music is going. And there's always been this color to it. And it's always like a black blank space like a black black background. And then this color moves in time with the music in different colors come in and out. And I paint a lot of podcast music, and I try to interpret the whole song into one piece, or at least the biggest part of the song and get kind of the feeling for that song in one image. One of my friends AR Oliveri sent me a superhero clip. And they're like "you're the superhero!" I don't remember which one - it was some Marvel superhero who turns sound into light energy. And I'm just like, this is so cool.03:25 CHARACTER SONGS So it's telling stories through music, they'll have different themes for different characters and then those themes will come together to tell the story of who they are. I've used this song You Probably Shouldn't Trust Me to merge it with some other character songs. So we're going to play the first track Like Mother Like Daughter and fade it into the song I'm Here To Kill You. Let's see if you can figure out where one ends and the other begins.03:51 COLORS IN THE WOODS This piece in the background is called Remembering. It's another song I wrote for season two, two of the characters in the show called Katie Bell and Waverly. It plays in the scene where Katie Bell and Waverly are talking about how they both grew up. They both grew up in these places filled with nature and forests and life. Picture the scenes going on in the background and those colors will come into play. Later, like when Katie was describing running in the woods away from the danger, I always pictured these blues and greens and some reds and yellows. And you can see bits of those colors coming into the song. 05:08 GARAGE BAND I just started composing this year. When I compose music, I use GarageBand loops. I taught myself how to do this, I have no idea how to read music. jumped in feet first and we're still going.05:40 AUDIO DRAMA INFLUENCES When composing music, I'm influenced by a lot of my friends within the audio drama community. James Barbarossa from The Orphans, who has also been on How I Make Music Episode 68, which you should listen to. He has played such a big part in being an inspiration because we often are talking about how we compose music and stuff and he's always so encouraging. And I love the music from TSupport the show