Interview with Composer, Emily Rice

Sam speaks to composer Emily Rice about her career so far, working with Junkie XL, Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard and Laura Karpman, as well as her recent work scoring for the highly acclaimed short film, Mr. Malcom's List. Emily Rice is a British born composer for film, who started

Tomb Raider: Dark Angel Symphony Interview with Peter Connelly

Sam Hughes speaks with composer Peter Connelly. Peter’s career within the video games industry started out in 1995 and he has since been employed at various levels of expertise including Music Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Lead and Audio Manager. His musical and sound engineering background spans 4 decades, composing soundtracks

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

Spitfire Chamber Strings Review

Review by Jordan Killiard Edited by Sam Dudley Price: £599 inc. vat Developer: Spitfire Audio Spitfire Chamber Strings has risen out of the ashes of Spitfire’s original Sable series. Released back in 2013, Sable was a modular library beginning Spitfire’s British Modular Library (BML) series, released in five volumes, including specially created ensemble

Screen Music Connect Announces Early Bird Tickets and Keynote Speaker

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New London-based symposium series will explore the music of film, television, video games and virtual reality, with BASCA's Vick Bain to keynote the inaugural event   Created by James Hannigan, award-winning composer and Game Music Connect co-founder, Screen Music Connect builds on the success of the sold-out game music conferences to celebrate

PLAY! – The British Paraorchestra & Friends in Concert Review

Review by Andrew Overfield Edited by Sam Hughes Artistic Director: Charles Hazlewood Composer(s): Various Venue: Leeds Town Hall On the 20th March, Andrew Overfield and Sam Hughes checked out the PLAY! concert; a series of classical pieces performed alongside classic and modern video game music, by the British Paraorchestra & Friends, conducted by Charles Hazlewood.