Interview with Composer Alexandra Harwood

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In this interview Sam Dudley chats with BAFTA Cymru Award-winning composer Alexandra Harwood about her journey into the world of film music, her classical roots, and more! Alex is a composer with an eclectic body of work whose credits include scoring Mike Newell's feature 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel

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

Interview with AES British Section Chair, Dr. Mariana Lopez

Dr Mariana Lopez

Sam Hughes speaks with AES British Chair, Dr. Mariana Lopez. Mariana has a background in music, sound design and acoustics. Her MA dissertation (University of York) focused on exploring the creation of a new format of sonic art entitled ‘audio film’ that may be considered as an alternative to Audio Description

Ludomusicology: An Interview with Dr. Melanie Fritsch

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In a Sound Architect first Dr. Melanie Fritsch gives us an introduction to the weird and wonderful world of Ludomusicology: the study of music in video games. As an avid gamer from childhood and later with an academic background in Performance Studies and Musicology, Melanie became familiar with the field

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,

Women in Gaming: Voiceover Special Podcast Episode

In case you haven't seen our recent posts across social media we have an epic podcast coming up! Sam Hughes will be joined by award winning line-up; Victoria Atkin, Cissy Jones and Patrica Summersett, (AKA Evie Frye, Delilah June and Princess Zelda, among their many other awesome characters) to answer YOUR questions. That's right, we're

Interview with Bay Area Sound’s Music Supervisor/Lead Composer, Jared Emerson-Johnson

Sam Hughes speaks with the Music Supervisor/Lead Composer of nearly all the Telltale Games franchises, Jared Emerson-Johnson. They discuss his career so far, favourite tracks from the Telltale Games, his process and more!  For the past decade or so Jared has been the music man at Bay Area Sound—writing music, creating