Game Audio Hour Team GAH

Alex and Vincent are at it again, chatting game audio and going through a bit of history all the while. Hopefully you enjoy our BRIGHT and BUSY conversation!

Notable mentions include:

Citizen Sleeper (game by Jump Over the Age, soundtrack by Amos Roddy) - https://www.fellowtraveller.games/citizen-sleeper
Nigiyaka (賑やか)
Saturn Bomberman (game by Hudson Soft, soundtrack by Jun Chikuma)
Streets of Rage 3 (game by Sega/Ancient, soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima)
As Long As You Are (album by Future Islands)
Tetris Effect: Connected (game by Enhance, soundtrack by Noboru Mutoh)

Featuring: Alex May and Vincent Diamante

Recorded March 10, 2023

Alex recounts a tale of woe to Mike and Vince, but this one has a happy ending... and it doesn't even involve compressor plugins, for once!

Notable mentions include:

Logitech MX Vertical Mouse - https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-vertical-ergonomic-mouse.910-005447.html
Civilization V- https://civilization.com/civilization-5/
The Umbrella Academy - https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863
Gran Turismo 7- https://www.gran-turismo.com/
art of rally - https://www.artofrally.com/
Toy Matinee - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/toy-matinee/334815553

Featuring: Alex May, Vincent Diamante, Michael Shapiro

Recorded February 24, 2023

Mike and Vince successfully chat about AI and music without making reference to HAL 9000, Skynet, or any other frightening fictional computer entity. They also spend time reminiscing on some of their first work in the game music space, more than 2 decades back!

Notable mentions include:

John Adams - https://www.earbox.com/
ChatGPT - https://openai.com/
MusicLM - https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
SingSong - https://storage.googleapis.com/sing-song/index.html
Better Call Saul score by Dave Porter - https://music.apple.com/us/album/better-call-saul-vol-1-original-score-from-the-tv-series/1216955160
Pukunpa - https://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-game,,T-16802G,,Joshikousei-no-Houkago...-Pukunpa-JPN.html



Featuring: Vincent Diamante, Michael Shapiro

Recorded February 3, 2023

After passing a couple of new year's thresholds, the trio of Alex, Mike, and Vince are back with a new episode! Vince has returned from Japan, Alex has returned from the opera, and Mike has returned from hibernation to poke at various things through the lens of game audio!

Notable mentions include:

Roland Cloud - https://www.rolandcloud.com/
U-He Hive - https://u-he.com/products/hive/
GForce Oberheim SEM - https://gforcesoftware.com/products/sem/
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1OtRt0_ho
El Cid soundtrack by Miklós Rózsa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrP3hNSglAc
The Five Star Stories soundtrack by Tomoyuki Asakawa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbT2Dk6X1dA&list=PL2FQwOaKZzbtUC2Ai7OkNtChCLn_kZKNV

Featuring: Vincent Diamante, Alex May, Michael Shapiro

Recorded January 20, 2023

The trio is back... but only for an ever so brief moment before signing off for the year! Of course, they can't well go without mentioning that staple of New Year's discussions: RESOLUTIONS! They also can't go without some staples of GAH episodes past, which means: Conspicuous Consumption (of cookies and egg nog)!

Notable mentions include:

Jazz Hanon (piano pedagogy, Leo Alfassy)
Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian composer)
Elden Ring (game with real staying power, FromSoftware)
Everspace 2 (Space shooter/adventure game, ROCKFISH Games)

Featuring: Alex May, Michael Shapiro, Vincent Diamante

Recorded December 16, 2022

The duo of Alex and Vince team up to offer a somewhat introspective episode this time around. Between reflections on a very early attempt to record voice actors for a commercial game, navigating the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and chatting a bit about recent game dev achievements, it's no wonder that this episode can't be contained to a mere hour! (But that's seemingly every episode these days...)

Featuring: Alex May and Vincent Diamante

Recorded December 9, 2022