“To be a Hollywood composer, you need to be a powerful entrepreneur”
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA FOR LEVEL AND GAIN There aren’t many composers who fluidly work between video games and Hollywood, but Penka Kouneva has firmly entrenched herself among […]
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Could this film about taxidermy bring you the joy you’re seeking today?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Joy is the last thing you might think about when considering dead animals being stuffed. Taxidermy is certainly […]
The roguish fun of Untitled Goose Game is “definitely something we could all use right now”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN How do you compose a game in which the main character has only one word (“honk!”), and there […]
Jason Graves: “People think of scary music whenever they hear my name”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Jason Graves says his name is synonymous with scary music. And with a list of credits to this […]
Composer Alex Baranowski pays homage to his family in this post-WWII film about the children
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN For Alex Baranowski, The Windermere Children wasn’t an ordinary scoring project. Though the BBC/Wall to Wall production may have presented […]
An entirely casual chat with Stranger Things composers Kyle and Michael
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH LEVEL AND GAIN You may not have heard of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, but you would undoubtedly know their music. […]
“Don’t allow the industry to put you in a box” says composer-producer James Edward Barker
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Writer, producer, or composer? James Edward Barker didn’t settle for just one of these career paths. Rather than […]
Tasmanian composer Koh-Dee is cracking the mobile gaming industry
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Mobile gaming is a hot sector of the video games market, accounting for 45 per cent of all video games […]
Here’s what went down at Australia’s most awesome industry event for game scoring
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA FOR LEVEL AND GAIN In early October, I attended High Score: Composition for Sound Art and Gaming, as part of the Melbourne International […]
Halo and Wolfenstein games composer talks ’80s synths and influences
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Tom Salta is an experienced video game composer with the ability to jump between starkly different game and […]