# Afterlife Museum

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**Audio case file · Composition, Sound design, Implementation · 2026 · GAME AUDIO**

> A one-month ISART platformer where you play a wooden puppet wandering a cabinet of curiosities — and can leave your body to possess the objects around you. I composed the clarinet soundtrack, built the wooden soundscape, and integrated everything in Unity with FMOD.

## Facts

- **Roles**: Composition, Sound design, Implementation
- **Year**: 2026
- **Engine**: Unity
- **Middleware**: FMOD
- **Team**: 11
- **Platform**: PC & Android
- **Version control**: GIT
- **Timeline**: 1 month
- **Status**: Academic project

## Case file

- **Outcome**: A playable build delivered in one month — 2 animatics, 2 levels, an OST recorded with a real clarinetist, and a PC & Android build.

## Project Overview

Afterlife Museum is a platformer made in one month at ISART. You play a small
wooden puppet wandering through a collector's cabinet of curiosities, and the
game's hook is possession: you can leave your puppet's body behind and jump
into the objects around you to control them. I worked as composer and tech
sound designer, delivering the soundtrack, the sound design, and the Unity +
FMOD integration.

## Audio System

- **Possession chord system**: leaving the puppet's body triggers a voice
  chord ("heart") whose harmony depends on when the action happens — it is
  tied to the chord progression of the level's current music. The sound is
  dynamic in pitch and in duration: whatever the distance between the two
  objects, the audio track stretches to cover it, from a short blip to a long
  transfer.
- **Clarinet soundtrack**: an OST oscillating between experimental-modern
  writing and mickey-mousing, recorded with clarinetist Clara Legentil.
- **Air time arpeggio**: while the player is in the air, a clarinet line plays
  ascending and descending arpeggios for the whole duration of the jump,
  following the chord progression of the level like the possession sound.
- **Wooden sound design**: the foley was built from wooden objects bought at
  flea markets and ressourceries, keeping the cabinet of curiosities
  believable and tactile.

The original music is presented separately on the
[Afterlife Museum soundtrack page](/en/project/afterlife-museum-2/).

## Audio examples

- [Awakening](/media/afterlife-museum-2/audio/track-01.ogg)
- [Everything Wood](/media/afterlife-museum-2/audio/track-02.ogg)
- [Feel so Small](/media/afterlife-museum-2/audio/track-03.ogg)

## Notes

- Tech Sound Design: Possession chord system, leaving your puppet to possess an object triggers a voice chord whose pitch and duration adapt to the distance, locked to the level's chord progression.
- Music Design: Clarinet soundtrack, experimental-modern scoring with mickey-mousing, recorded with clarinetist Clara Legentil.
- Sound Design: Wooden foley, every object in the soundscape is built from flea-market pieces, matching the cabinet's material language.

## Links

- [Playthrough Video](https://youtu.be/8pfXs9VA_qQ)

## Videos

- [Everything Wood](/media/afterlife-museum/everything-wood.webm)
- [Gameplay](/media/afterlife-museum/gameplay.webm)
- [Mickey Mousing](/media/afterlife-museum/mickey-mousing.webm)

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