Thermal Discouragement Beams

from Miscelanious Game Remixes by Rebecca Tripp

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This is my orchestral arrangement of the music which plays in the triple laser puzzle room in Portal 2 (once you get the lasers set up). This is something which I've had planned for years now, and I've finally gotten around to it. I'm glad I waited! :D The original soundtrack was composed by Mike Morasky.

Portal 1 and Portal 2 are absolute masterpieces. It is very rare that I will declare with certainty that a video game is a full 10/10 both in terms of my subjective enjoyment of said game and in terms of its objective quality. Every single thing about the plot amazed, delighted, terrified and intrigued me all at once, and, for a bit of trivia about me, GlaDOS is my absolute favourite villain (from anything) of all time (tied with Gul Dukat from Deep Space Nine).

I've always really liked the Portal soundtracks, but "Triple Laser Phase" was the first track to REALLY make me stop and just... listen. How could something sound so pleasantly emancipating (indirect pun intended) and yet so horrifyingly alien at the same time? I normally don't enjoy media very much when it's filled with dark imagery, violence, suffering, trauma, etc (with some notable exceptions, mind you- I'm a sci-fi enthusiast, and a lot of it is pretty dark), but Portal 1 and Portal 2 were so immersive, inspiring and downright crazy. It was also just unbelievably, spectacularly hilarious- even though Chell's predicament was technically one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.

I hope I was able to do this soundtrack justice, and that this cover captures both the creepiness and the faint undercurrent of hope present throughout the franchise. Since the original track was entirely electronic, I thought it would be fun to use 100% organic symphonic sounds to simulate some of the same textures, as well as an ambient sense of machinery, bulkheads etc and, of course, the buzzing, pulsing energy radiating from the "Aperture Science Thermal Discouragement Beams."

Every VGM medley I did: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWNj7e7PqxLh8zCjsHw19F3i
Every game remix I ever did: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWON9zRaW-KZKRwBHKeLZ_V7
Some of my original work: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWMYg7N8Z4xVogVAMe8NOH-8

Here is my personal website: www.crystalechosound.com

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from Miscelanious Game Remixes, released February 22, 2016

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Rebecca Tripp British Columbia

I'm extremely passionate about life: I love nature, the arts and people alike! I wish to reflect all of that within my music! I'm very interested in philosophy & psychology, which effects my musical style! Musically, my primary goal is to reinvigorate heartfelt appreciation and joy within others by reconnecting them youthful memories and other latent portions of the psyche. VGM helps profoundly! ... more

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