JA: I felt that Exile’s soundtrack had a very North African, Mediterranean feel to it, while Revelation takes it’s cues from Southeastern Europe. What influences your decisions for a certain “sound” within a game?

Wow, very astute! I can see you’re really paying attention. :) Well, it has to do with 2 things mainly – the story and the fact that it’s Myst - which gives me permission to do things musically that Western ears are somewhat less accustomed to; actually, to do things I’m less accustomed to, but very interested in. I poured over the story in the very beginning of the production and found what I thought to be the emotional or tonal center of the game. From there I made some assumptions about what I thought that center would sound like and began to formulate the instrumental palette for the game around that. It just so happened that the Eastern European influences that I loved in the early ‘90’s was a really good starting place.