WildStar composer Jeff Kurtenacker talks about writing ELEVEN hours of music for a 75-piece orchestra for the game. Patron of the Week Kevin Vitz-Wong shares his favorite music from NeoTokyo by Ed Harrison, Risk of Rain by Chris Christodolou, Uncharted 2 by Greg Edmonson and Mechwarriors 2 Mercenaries by Jeehun Hwong.…
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Composer Austin Wintory talks about his score for The Banner Saga 2, and Patron of the Week Joey Thurmond talks about his favorite music from Bloodborne by Ryan Amon and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture by Jessica Curry.…
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Technical sound designer Damian Kastbauer talks about his work on PopCap games like Plants vs. Zombies 2 and his many other projects. Patron of the Week Zachary Schroeder chats about his favorite video game music, including Heavy Bullets and OFF.…
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Composer and audio wizard Paul Lipson from Formosa Interactive talks about being an audio director, creator and composer in the video game industry for the last 20 years, including time working on Halo for Microsoft. Our Patron of the Week is Rosie Samter from the Videri String Quartet.…
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Dr. Karen Collins talks about her new documentary about game audio called Beep: A Documentary History of Video Game Sound, and composer Kole Hicks talks about his music for the game Kenshi.…
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Composer Neal Acree talks about scoring Revelation, Overwatch, World of Warcraft and more. OverAchiever segment features Zachary Schroeder talking about his platinum trophy in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Emily hosts a panel called Game Music Melee at GlitchCon in Minneapolis.…
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Harmonix co-founder Alex Rigopulos talks about creating a company that brings music to the masses through video games. Four of Harmonix’s audio designer/composer/creative leads also join the show, along with Patron of the Week Craig Parker.…
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Composer Eric Goetz talks about writing music for interactive audio books, Emily gives a rundown of who’s at PAX East 2016, and Patron of the Week Simon Schmidt talks about his favorite video game music.…
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Zack Parrish and his music from Valdis Story: Abyssal City, as well as Patron of the Week Stephen Kelly are featured in Episode 17 of LWER.…
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Composer Petri Alanko from Quantum Break and Patron of the Week Clare Jones.…
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Features an interview with Andrew Steffen and Josh Barron of The ETHEReal String Project, along with Patron of the Week, Jean-Marc Giffin.…
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On Episode 14 of Level with Emily Reese, Shota Nakama (creator, Video Game Orchestra) and Tommy Tallarico (creator, Video Games Live) talk about their new project, CAPCOM LIVE! Also, hear a roundup of GDC16, and Patron of the Week, Ansley Grams.…
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Episode 13 of Level with Emily Reese features composer Dren McDonald discussing his music for Gathering Sky, and scoring the reboot of Dangerous Dave in the Deserted Pirate’s Hangout. The new Patron of the Week segment debuts.…
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Level with Emily Reese Episode 12 features an interview with Far Cry Primal composer Jason Graves, along with a chat with Holly Harrison about the platinum trophy she got in a new segment called “Over Achievers.”…
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Episode 11 of Level with Emily Reese is live from Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis for an event called Playful Sounds in advance of a performance by the Minnesota Orchestra. Composer Garry Schyman (BioShock series, Destroy All Humans series, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor) stops in via Skype to say hello to the audience.…
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