Screen Music Connect Announces First Sessions!

SCREEN MUSIC CONNECT FIRST SESSIONS ANNOUNCED: CONFERENCE EXPLORES THE MUSIC OF FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITY ON SEPTEMBER 24 BAFTA, IVOR NOVELLO Celebrated Composers and Innovative Live Musical Performance Confirmed for Inaugural Event at Southbank’s Purcell Room Screen Music Connect, from the people who brought you Game Music Connect is an exciting

Composer Petri Alanko to Speak at Devcom 2018

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Quantum Break composer will give a talk centred around writer's block and creativity.   BAFTA nominated music artist, composer and producer Petri Alanko (aka Lowland), whose critically acclaimed scores include Remedy Entertainment’s Quantum Break and Alan Wake, will discuss his techniques for overcoming and embracing writer’s block on undisclosed future projects, including

Interview with Sound Designer/Recordist Michael Leaning AKA Shotgun Mike

Sam Hughes speaks with sound designer/recordist Michael Leaning. Michael Leaning has worked as a professional sound designer for 9 years, starting his sound design career at Traveller’s Tales in 2009, spending 4 years working on the hugely popular LEGO games. In 2013 he moved to Lionhead Studios to work on

Game Music Composers Announced For SoundTrack_Cologne 15

Takeshi Furukawa, Pieter Schlosser and Garry Schyman spearhead SoundTrack_Cologne's Games Day this year with early bird registration now open   SoundTrack_Cologne returns with a star studded games program including guests Takeshi Furakawa (The Last Guardian), Pieter Schlosser (Destiny 2) and Garry Schyman (Bioshock). The composers will be talking about the characteristics of

Joris Daniel Hoogsteder – From Assistant to Co-Composer: A Perspective

Many thanks to composer, Joris Daniel Hoogsteder, for submitting this guest article, where Joris discusses how to be a great composing assistant and working your up in the world of music composition. Joris has composed music for video games, films, commercials, musical theatre, and has produced various pop songs. Currently,

BASCA presents: Media Composer Conference

  Article by Alyx Jones The lovely sunshine illuminated the Guildhall School of Music and Drama today as BASCA hosted their Media Composers Conference. The first panel consisted of Laura Rossi, Andrew Skeet, Rich Aitken, Simon Ashdown and John Warhurst, and were discussing the team of people who work behind the composer, creatively