For today's episode, host Alon Levitan speaks with composer Ludvig Forssell about musical puzzles and double tasting your creative output, the soul of anime storytelling and its influence on the west, workflow with the great Hideo Kojima, music as a language in Swedish culture, the serenity of the bleak countryside in Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro, , Musique Concrète, Metal Gear and Death Stranding, 3rd person objectivity,  Oppenheimer's strings, the varied brilliance of Johann Johansson and Joe Hisaishi, Zootopia on a desert island, sticking to the plan for the best path forward, and more.