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<\/a><\/p>\n IO Interactive has released the newest edition of its behind-the-scenes series, Beyond the Light<\/a>, which gives us a glimpse into the development of 007: First Light<\/em>. The latest episode focuses on the upcoming title\u2019s music and sounds, and features missions and audio director Dominic Vega, along with in-game soundtrack composers The Flight. Check it out below.<\/p>\n Discussing the vision behind the music and other audio of 007: First Light<\/em>, Vega spoke about how the audio department at IO Interactive had to take on different considerations than the rest of the team. While everyone else was focused on concept work, the audio department had to ask questions about characters, locations, and musical motifs, among other things.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the earliest get-go, kind of the core of the experience in Bond<\/em> is about the character, and it\u2019s about the mission that he\u2019s on,\u201d explains Vega. \u201cHe\u2019s kind of living through and playing out this story. So from the very early onset of something, it\u2019s concepted out, it\u2019s drawn up for the team, but the audio department, we go off and we start thinking about what the musical motifs are going to be for the individual characters, what the sound of that world, that location is going to be, what kind of sound sources we\u2019re going to need to record in the future, what kind of characters we\u2019re going to see, what accents are we going to be hearing as we walk through the world, how do we want to lay this out acoustically?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe do some linear mock-ups as we get ready for that stage. We go out, and we\u2019re recording a lot of source, getting ready for it. But we\u2019re also prototyping the engine from day one, so as soon as we can get our hands on something new, we\u2019re drawing things up and working back and forth with all of our designers. It\u2019s a really inspiring process.\u201d<\/p>\n While much of the work was done by in-house teams, Vega also confirmed that IO Interactive brought in experts when they were needed. This includes The Flight, who headed up the studio\u2019s internal music team for 007: First Light<\/em>. \u201cJoe and Alexis [The Flight] work a lot with some spectacular and fantastic soloists who were brought in for specialty instrumentation, but we also recorded our entire brass segment at Abbey Road Studios. Some of the best players in the world play out of that hall.\u201d<\/p>\n The duo making up The Flight spoke quite a bit about their involvement with the project, noting that they joined IO Interactive with their own perspectives on how the music should be composed. With the idea of not wanting to \u201cupdate\u201d things too much, they said that the upcoming game will be focused on sounding classic, but with the duo\u2019s own bend on the ideas.<\/p>\n \u201cThe good thing about Bond<\/em> as a franchise, \u2019cause it\u2019s lasted so long, it\u2019s already gone through a lot of musical tastes,\u201d they said. \u201cI like to think that, as children of the \u201980s growing up in the UK, sitting down and watching Bond<\/em> films on the sofa with our dads every Christmas, we just have it built in that you can play a figure, play a chord pattern or a melody, and you know if it\u2019s Bond<\/em> or not.\u201d<\/p>\n 007: First Light<\/em> is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X\/S on May 27th. A port is also planned for the Nintendo Switch 2, which has been delayed to a Summer release window<\/a>. For more on the upcoming Bond game, take a look at its title track as performed by Lana Del Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n