By Staff Report on February 20, 2017
GoPro, Steep, Unbisoft, videogames, Zikali
Games
Sumthing Else Music Works, the music label formed by Nile Rodgers expressly to service game soundtracks, makes available the original score for Ubisoft’s Steep. The open-world multiplayer summit adventure features a post-rock instrumental score composed by Zikali, a European collective of music composition and sound design artists. “The musical artistic direction consists of the encounter between a post-rock […]
By Staff Report on September 23, 2016
GameSoundCon, pro-audio, videogames
Games
Virtual reality sound for video games is a hot ticket at GameSoundCon, the annual conference for video game music and sound design that has sold out its Sept. 26-27 dates at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. “Virtual Reality is not only taking the game industry by storm, but most other forms of […]
By Staff Report on August 14, 2015
Live, Performance, Q&A, Shota Nakama, Video Game Orchestra, videogames
Q&A
Shota Nakama is a producer, guitarist, composer, and arranger, best known as founder of the Video Game Orchestra. Born and raised in Okinawa, Japan, Shota’s passion for music grew when he discovered the work of Beethoven, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. After playing with some local ’70s and ’80s rock cover bands as a guitarist, he began […]