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New game music blog

by Matt Sayre · 06/20/2008 (1:29 pm) · 2 comments

I've finally started the blog that I've been thinking about for quite awhile. Since starting my career 8 years ago, I wanted to have someplace to write about my adventures in the game industry as an audio freelancer. I've learned a ton since starting my career and I think that other composers may find some of my posts useful. But I also want game developers in general to get something out of it as well. Reading a post or two may help producers and designers more easily communicate with us oddball composers. What are we looking for from you? What do I think you are looking for or what should you look for from us?

It's hard to say how the blog will in fact evolve, but I hope to keep its mission simple: To help game composers and game developers make better soundtracks. Please do check it out and I'd love to hear your suggestions:

The Game Composer's Blog: www.gamenotes.org

In other news, I've finished a couple InstantAction games and am really looking forward to seeing how they look under the glittering IA lights online. More about later as they're released. And my first Wii game was just released this week! I did most of the new sound effects for Backyard Baseball 2009 for the Wii and PS2. It was quite a thrill working on that, I gotta say.

See you around the nets!
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#1
06/21/2008 (1:21 am)
Matt, your blog was a cool reading, keep it up! I enjoyed the .. tribute :) part especially - I have seen that so many times before, but I have fallen into the same .. mistake (?) as well.. I was told once that in one of my pieces for an animation had a part that resembled a section in Danny Elfman's Batman theme. I was totally unaware of it, it was entirely unintentional, but I've been listening to a lot of Elfman at that time. I imagine Williams must be listening to something as well, and.. I guess he must be human afterall.

Please, post your blog here in your GG blog as well. There are few topics for composers, so it'd totally rock.

Torque Owner Matt Sayre
#2
06/21/2008 (11:09 am)
Whoa, did you read my mind? The Batman theme is going to be the subject of one of my posts soon. It's cropped up in way too many places. It's almost funny. Right after college, I did the same thing. Writing my first string quartet, I realized I used it. Into the trash that part went!

Glad you enjoyed the blog! I probably will post some of them here, especially if they have to do with the indie scene or others issues relevant to the GG community. I don't want to spam here too frequently though.