Brian Eno Scores <cite>Spore</cite>

The beautifully named blog We Make Money Not Art reports that Brian Eno ("the father of modern ambient music") is producing the procedurally-generated, dynamic soundscape that will accompany Will Wright's p-g'ed, d. Spore:

He was asked to do it, because the designers wanted sound that is just a procedural as the game itself, instead of the loops which are tied to certain stages or areas which we are used to experience in games. He went on to demonstrate a simple software called "The Shuffler" which he uses to create fragments for the soundtrack of Spore and which even with a simple combination of samples possibly would never create the same composition twice within a lifetime.

Before and After Darwin [WMMNA, via GameSetWatch]