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Thursday, October 18 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Creating Music for Video Games

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Video game budgets surpass even the greatest record deal budgets from the golden era, causing many composers and producers to tap into this lucrative space. How does a composer or producer find work in this field and is it different from making music for standard media forms? What happens behind the scenes when music is placed into a video game?

Panelists
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Ryan Barkan

Ryan oversees all aspects of music licensing and strategic integration for Primary Wave Music's artists/catalogs in both the advertising and video game industries. Recent projects include: Daniel Johnston's Space Ducks collaboration with Wieden+Kennedy Entertainment, Real Tuesday... Read More →
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Zoila Darton

Tom Salta is one of the most versatile and prolific music composer/producers working in multimedia including film, television, advertising and most notably video games. Renowned for crafting memorable, emotionally engaging music for the medium, Salta has garnered widespread acclaim... Read More →
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Alex Hackford

ALEX HACKFORD is head of A&R at Sony Computer Entertainment America, responsible for soundtracks of Gran Turismo, MLB, Sound Shapes, Little Big Planet Karting, and Playstation All Stars: Battle Royale among others. Prior to SCEA, he was a manager at Sanctuary, as well as A&R at Columbia... Read More →
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Jedd Katrancha

Downtown Music ; VP, CreativeJedd Katrancha is the Vice President of Creative for Downtown Music where he oversees the sync licensing efforts for the Downtown Music Publishing catalog as well as for a network of over one dozen independent labels including Downtown Records, Cooking... Read More →
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Sean Murray

In 2010, Sean defined the sound of Call of Duty once again with Black Ops, his second score in the biggest entertainment series in history. His dark symphonic score is enhanced by an 80 piece orchestra that features the talent of leading Hollywood musicians and was recorded at the... Read More →


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