COPILOT Music and Sound

COPILOT Music and Sound LLC (commonly known as COPILOT Strategic Music + Sound, COPILOT Music, or COPILOT) is a New York-based music content and strategy company launched in 2008 by partners Jason Menkes (Executive Producer) and Ravi Krishnaswami (Creative Director). COPILOT provides music production, music composition, music licensing, sonic branding, sound design, and creative consultation services throughout the television, gaming, film, advertising, and interactive industries.

To promote Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios’ 2012 release of the stealth action-adventure video game Dishonored, COPILOT produced an arrangement of the public domain song "Drunken Sailor" for the game's trailer, entitled "Drunken Whaler".

The track's vocal composition included child actors, adult singers who could imitate children, and children of family and friends. The instrumentation used included violins, detuned and distorted guitars, and a "whaler stomp" created by stomping on wooden boards to create a pulsating percussion sound.

Due to the popularity of the track among video game fans, Bethesda commissioned COPILOT to create a full-length version of the song which was offered as a free download on the publisher's website. In September 2012, Bethesda hosted a remix contest of "Drunken Whaler", providing COPILOT's stems of the individual tracks for fans to create their own arrangements. The creative team at COPILOT were invited to review and judge all of the entries.

The 2012 Video Game Awards, broadcast on Spike TV, included "Drunken Whaler" in a live orchestral tribute to the Game of the Year nominees, led by Assassin's Creed III composer Lorne Balfe. "Drunken Whaler" was the only section of the medley to feature music from a game's marketing campaign, rather than its in-game score.

COPILOT's original arrangement of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" accompanied the Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer at the 2016 E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. The game is said to be released early November 2016.

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