Aphelion’s Audio Team Explains Its Immersive Soundscape

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Category: Games April 27, 2026 Aphelion’s Audio Team Explains Its Immersive Soundscape Louis Martin, Lead Audio on Aphelion Aphelion is out tomorrow, and my colleagues (Kevin England, Sound Designer, and Mathieu Fiorentini, Senior Sound Designer) and I wanted to talk about one of the highlights of the game: music and sound design.

Music and Emotion For the music, we chose Amine Bouhafa as the composer for the game’s original score. He was our top choice due to the richness of his musicality and because we specifically wanted a composer from outside of the video game industry. In most games, music is often used as a form of gameplay feedback – for instance, to convey a particular game state.

For Aphelion , however, our intention was to have a more narrative and emotion-driven approach to music. Its primary role was to carry and express these emotions consistently throughout the game, through its themes and compositional language, while also highlighting the relationship between the two characters, Ariane and Thomas.

Source: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/27/aphelion-sound-and-music