In the GameSpot "Best Games of 2008" awards, the game's music helped it receive nominations for Best Atmosphere (losing out to Fallout 3 by just 3% of votes) and Best Sound Design (which it won with a 42% majority). The audio element of Dead Space was widely praised by critics and industry figures, and was nominated for a number of awards. The soundtrack was made available to download from and iTunes ten days later on November 11. The soundtrack was made available as a digital download through the EA Trax service on November 1, 2008. In its entirety, over three hours of music was composed by Graves for Dead Space, all of which was recorded in just two recording sessions each individual instrumental section was recorded separately, including the woodwind, string, brass and percussion sections. When you get right down to it, music is really just sound design with a lot more rules. In this way, Dead Space has really blurred the line between music and sound design. This is not to say that we didn't use music to help create the atmosphere, because we certainly did however, the music was used much more texturally than thematically.
We weren't going for traditional music composition or memorable themes, but instead approached the entire sound-scape as a single unit that would work together to create a dark and eerie vibe. The plan from the very start was to create mood through overall sound design. According to an interview with Don Veca, the game's audio director, composer Rod Abernethy "helped out logistically and was involved in our initial brainstorming" for the music of the game, but Jason Graves "actually composed, conducted, and arranged all the music." On general plans for the direction of the game's audio, Veca said the following: “
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