Why video game developers are obsessed with evil, mind-altering music

According to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, our universe isn’t just a collection of celestial bodies, but a song. Pythagoras and his followers assigned the sun, moon and planets a tone based on their orbits, generating a mathematical harmony latterly known as the ​“music of the spheres”. This harmony shapes every aspect of human existence, they argued, from our souls to our vital organs, but we’re oblivious to it because we hear it from birth. For most of us, it’s just background noise. In JETT: The Far Shore, a video game from Quebec-based Superbrothers, that background noise is given tangible form. Players join a team of explorers searching a distant world for the source of a mysterious ​‘hymnwave’, a heavenly broadcast that is the fou...

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