Jimi Hendrix & Ivan Tcherepnin with Peter McConnell (Psychonauts 2)

CrossFade: The Dueling Album Review Show

Go inside the mind that created the music for the best-known video game about going inside people’s minds: Peter McConnell is on CrossFade!

WIth Peter, we dissect the music of Ivan Tcherepnin, Peter’s late mentor and experimental/avant garde composer of the 20th century, and “Axis: Bold as Love,” the second record from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Together, we find the little connections between Hendrix’s mystical playing and the sonic innovations of Tcherepnin. We also talk to Peter about creating music for LucasArts and Double Fine, writing songs for Jack Black, and the connection between opera and video games.

Then we turn to the MinnMax community for fun questions about bands we dream of playing with, how interactive music has changed over Peter’s 30-year career, and more!

(If you’re not a big classical music head, don’t worry! Peter makes it all easy to follow along and appreciate.)

Follow Peter on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PeterNMcConnell

Pre-order Peter’s Psychonauts 2 soundtrack at https://skilltreerecords.com/album/2022998/psychonauts-2-original-soundtrack-vol-1

Psychonauts 2 is out now

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Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below…

0:00 - Jimi Hendrix & Ivan Tcherepnin with Peter McConnell

00:59 - Peter’s music background

5:31 - Writing music for Jack Black

9:07 - Working themes from Psychonauts 1 into the sequel

15:16 - What Peter learned from Ivan Tcherepnin

24:53 - The Music of Ivan Tcherepnin

25:30 - Flores Musicales : I. Overture - P’tite P’tite

30:57 - Five Songs: I. Do-Mi

41:25 - Five Songs: IV. Queues

46:50 - Flores Musicales: III. Grand Fire Music

49:55 - Santur Live! Overture: The Situation in The Land

52:57 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Axis: Bold as Love”

57:12 - Spanish Castle Magic

1:01:03 - Wait Until Tomorrow

1:04:32 - Little Wing

1:10:03 - If 6 Was 9

1:16:01 - Bold as Love

1:22:36 - Community Questions (writing music for ‘place,’ interactive music through the decades, bands we wanna play with & more)

1:45:21 - Fleet Foxes - “The Shrine/An Argument” (suggested by MinnMax supporter Thom Blackburn)