Late Night Bubbles: Exploring Modal Theory in Game Soundtrack Design

“Late Night Bubbles” is a bit of an outlier for me. Usually, when I’m composing music for games, the core idea bursts out in a single session. This track, however, evolved over five different sittings, becoming a complex puzzle that I had to solve piece by piece.

After the first few sessions, I realized I’d written myself into a corner—I couldn’t quite pin down the harmonic structure. Was it E Dorian? B Minor? Maybe F# Phrygian? I was actually lost in the theory of my own composition, which is a rare and slightly trippy experience.

The breakthrough happened late one night in the studio. I stopped overthinking the scales and modes and just played by feel. It’s a great example of how atmospheric sound design often comes from intuition rather than math. If you think you can crack the code on the harmonic analysis, please let me know!

Technical Roles: Music Composition, Modal Harmonic Analysis, Soundtrack Production.

Late Night Bubbles – Original Soundtrack