by Michael Sweet | Oct 2, 2017 | Interviews, Professional Interviews
Veteran and award winning composer Chance Thomas has been composing for games for over 25 years. His games include a diverse array of projects including Lord of the Rings Online, and Avatar. In addition, he is the author of the excellent book Composing Music for...
by Michael Sweet | Sep 6, 2017 | Articles, Interviews, Professional Interviews
Award winning composer Gareth Coker has composed for a diverse array of projects, including Moon Studios’ acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest, Insomniac’s virtual reality game The Unspoken, and Minecraft: Chinese Mythology & Minecraft: Greek Mythology (Mojang). For...
by Michael Sweet | Apr 17, 2017 | Articles, Interviews, Professional Interviews
Composer, musician, and producer Michael A. Levine was tapped by the Resident Evil VII team to produce and arrange the main theme ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody‘ sung by Jordan Reyne. Michael was chosen partly based on hearing his famous re-working of other...
by Michael Sweet | Dec 12, 2016 | Adaptive Music, Articles, Interviews, Professional Interviews, WWISE
Cozmo is a table-top robot released last October by Anki. Recently, DesigningMusicNow got to interview composers Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White of Finishing Move Inc. and award winning composer Gordy Haab about the music behind Cozmo. Gordy Haab is a GANG award...
by Dale Crowley | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, Interviews, Neuroscience, Professional Interviews
Introduction I have always been fascinated with the neuroscience behind our craft – making music and sounds for games. To really tell a story with music and sound, I believe we need to have a great curiosity about this subject. At Designing Music NOW,...
by Dale Crowley | Sep 22, 2016 | Articles, Film Music Review, Interviews, procedural music, Professional Interviews, Pure Data, Reviews
Introduction Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound, a celebration of video game music, SFX and VO from a historical perspective, is worth the price of admission just to experience the score. Now, a digital version of the OST from Beep by Leonard J. Paul has just...
