Lady Dimitrescu, is a fictional character in the 2021 survival horror video game Resident Evil Village, published by Capcom. One of the major antagonistic figures of Village, she is presented as a gigantic noblewoman with vampire-like traits who resides with her three daughters in Castle Dimitrescu, her stronghold within the vicinity of the titular Romanian village encountered by protagonist Ethan Winters. Dimitrescu governs the village alongside three mutant lords under the oversight of a supreme leader known as Mother Miranda.
To answer a technical aspect of a video game (proximity), this music is constituted of 3 distincts intensities : Far / Close / Chasing.
From a distance inspired by Bram Stocker's Dracula, I tried to picture the noblewoman inspired by Elizabteh Bathory with soft dark pianos, raw drums, woodwind instruments and a lot of processed violins.
Since she is known as a sort of vampire, the main idea was to keep a very regular low end, which has been treated to sound like a heartbeat. The blood pulse. Combined with ambient sounds and eerie strings to have that "castle vibe", then, it's just a madness of sound design over the record I've made, to bring a feeling of the femme fatale character Lady D. is.
