GANG Newsletter: January 2011



GANG Newsletter [Game Audio Network Guild]



 
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GANG and GDC 2011


As you know, GDC and the GANG awards are coming up soon. Voting will begin on February 3rd, and the winners will be announced at GDC at the GANG awards.

We also have several GANG members on panels, talks and summits, and here’s a brief listing…

Audio Boot Camp w/ Scott Selfon, Lennie Moore, Jeff Essex and Julian Kwasneski

Casual Moods: Creating Sound and Music for a Booming Field w/ Sean Beeson, Richie Nieto, Laura Shigahara, and Adam Gubman

Composer Challenge 2011 w/ Lennie Moore, Andrew Aversa, Kenny Wood and Thomas Hohl

Dead Space 2 Musical Postmordem w/ Jason Graves

Footsteps: An Informal Study w/ Damien Kastbauer

Interactive Music Scoring Methods for Mass Effect 2 w/ Jack Wall and Brian DiDominico

Know What’s Right: Understanding and Profiting from Music Rights w/ Brian Schmidt

Environment is the Orchestra: Soundscape Composition in LIMBO w/ Martin Stig Anderson

The Music Recipe of Emotion w/ Inon Zur, Tom Salta, Richard Jacques and Garry Schymann

VO Session LIVE! w/Michael Csurics

Where Next for AAA Console Audio Aesthetics w/Rob Bridgett

Marty O’Donnell’s Adventure with Adaptive Audio: Creative Collaboration and Geese w/Marty O’Donnell

Lessons Learned in Music Development [Brutal Legend, Bioshock, Destroy All Humans) w/Emily Ridgway

AND DON’T FORGET!

GANG DEMO DERBY: MUSIC w/Paul Lipson, Chance Thomas, Jason Hayes and Chuck Doud

GANG DEMO DERBY: Sound Design w/Tim Larkin, Scott Gershin, and Paul Lipson

AND ALSO:

The GANG Awards and After Party, where we’ll be giving away lots of prizes during the raffle, featuring products from Audiobro, Cinesamples, Chuck RussomFX, Rabbit Ears Audio, HART FX, BOOM LIbrary, HISSandaROAR and The Recordist.

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G.A.N.G. Discounts in Effect including GDC 11

Because you are a member of G.A.N.G. you can now receive any of these amazing and generous discounts!

** GANG GDC 11 DISCOUNT CODE! -" TPGNGDC" **

CAMEL Audio 25% off GANG Discount

IK Multimedia 25% off software GANG Discount

Flying Hand Percussion GANG Discount

SoundRangers 20% GANG Discount

Interview with GANG founder Tommy Tallarico

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GANG founder, Tommy Tallarico found some time in between Video Games Live dates to answer some questions for GANG. Tommy discusses his work with Video Games Live, his favorite games and gives tips for emerging talent in game audio.

Check out the interview here…

 

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Interview with composer Winifred Phillips

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This month we coaxed composer, Winifred Phillips (Legends of the Guardians, Spore Hero, The Maw, Speed Racer, Shrek the Third), into taking some time to answer a few questions about her career, her projects and advice for new talent.

The interview is here….

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GANG Student/Apprentice Contest!

G.A.N.G. is proud to announce the 9th annual 2011 Student/Apprentice Contest. This contest is an outstanding opportunity for student and apprentice members in G.A.N.G., and is a great way to advance your game audio career and get noticed. So, get your creative juices flowing and submit your best material in the competition!

There are two specific categories in the competition: Music Composition and Sound Design. Music winners will be awarded a copy of Audiobro’s LA Scoring Strings Lite (worth $500), and Sound Design winners will be awarded an indie library package from Chuck RussomFX, Rabbit Ears Audio, BOOM Library, The Recordist, HART FX, HISSandaROAR (worth more than $500)

The contest is limited to GANG members with either a Student or Apprentice (anyone who has not worked professionaly) GANG membership level.

Last year’s winners, Jeff Schmidt (Sound Design) and Courtney Johns (Composer) went on this year to do work for Blizzard, Harmonix, Pyramind and Blue Tongue Entertainment.

 

Here are the details of the contest

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The BLURBS January 2011

Check out the latest BLURBS on GANG members and their current projects

Here are THE BLURBS!

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