My work for Valve’s DOTA 2
The Main Reason for Going to China.
For the past couple months, I’ve been working with Tim Larkin and the wonderful folks at Valve on this project; the big opening ceremony for The International 9 in Shanghai, one of the largest game competitions globally.
I got to write this original orchestral arrangement for this event, using the beautiful themes of DotA2 in a fresh new way; my mission was to write it in a more Chinese style, and we were lucky to get traditional Erhu, Guzheng, Dizi players, and even a Tanggu drum group!
For this special occasion, I felt I just had to go and witness the full performance by the Shanghai Philharmonic in person, and was lucky to be accompanied by Katja and make a China-trip out of it
Super proud of this one, it was an enormous blast and I would love to thank everybody at Valve, but especially Tim Larkin, Paul Taylor and Pontus for an amazing time on this project.
Awesome summer was awesome.
Enjoy❤️
Posted by Joris Daniel on Thursday, September 5, 2019
For the past couple months, I’ve been working with the wonderful folks at Valve on this project; the big opening ceremony for The International 9 in Shanghai, one of the largest game competitions globally.
I got to write this original orchestral arrangement for this event, using the beautiful themes of DotA2 in a fresh new way; my mission was to write it in a more Chinese style, and we were lucky to get traditional Erhu, Guzheng, Dizi players, and even a Tanggu drum group!
For this special occasion, I felt I just had to go and witness the full performance by the Shanghai Philharmonic in person. Super proud of this one, it was an enormous blast and I would love to thank everybody at Valve, but especially Tim Larkin, Paul Taylor and Pontus Rufelt for an amazing time on this project.