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Jun 2017
10m 11s

Season 2, Ep. 5: Listening to Everything

American Public Media
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Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano--the composers who wrote the music for the videogame, Everything--join host Ria Misra for a conversation about games, music, and how to build a musical world for a videogame where you can, literally, play the universe. 
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