GANG Newsletter: August 2012

Wed, Sept 26th, Pyramind in San Francisco, 7pm

Philosophy of Music Design in Games: Portal 2 and FEZ

GANG’s Pro Branch, GVAC (GANG Voice Actor Coalition) are anextremely active group and have decided to start recording their meetings to pass on their collected thoughts in the form of a new podcast

You can checkout the 1st podcast at this link

GameSoundCon 2012 San Francisco
Videogame Music and Sound Design Conference

October 24-25, Pyramind Studios, San Francisco

Game Audio Network Guild Discount Save $75*

Register for $370* with code AGANG611

Earlybird discount ends September 27

*G.A.N.G. Discount: $75 off earlybird registration rate.

Click Here to Register

Use code AGANG611 when registering for discount

FMOD Hands On

Stephan Schutze is back in 2012 with 2 days of FMOD Training in FMOD Studio and FMOD Designer.

Stephan will provide a hand’s on look at the all-new FMOD Studio. (Spoiler alert: Have you ever seen a game hooked up to an SSL control surface for real-time mixing?)

Plus 2 full days of Game Sound Panels, Sessions and Masterclasses on the Art, Technology and Business of Game Audio. Don’t miss your chance to learn from the top experts in the business.

Keynote Address by industry legend Clint Bajakian, Senior Music Manager for Sony Computer Entertainment

If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend a AES conference lately, you should be aware of the GREAT game audio workshops, panels and talks that are being offered at the AES. This year’s Fall AES is being held in San Francisco from Oct 26-29th. The last few years have shown a wide variety of talks in game audio and you might have a look at their site to check it out.

Also at AES will be a speed mentoring session from SPARS, and this year mentors include Elise Baldwin, Paul Lipson, Dren McDonald, and Tom Salta. You can register for the speed mentoring sessions here.

THE Q Challenge is BACK

The new challenge:

1) Your composition or sound design piece MUST have at least 1 LIVE instrument/sound (recorded with a microphone) as part of your entry!

2) You can collaborate…or not…we leave it up to you (this might be a good idea if you only play piano and do not own any mics…find a friend on the site who can contribute!)

3) The theme "Play me a song, tell me a story"

Go to the forum post NOW to enter, and simply state that you are taking part in the challenge so we know how many folks are in.

Everyone (participants are required, and anyone else who wants to vote…) will vote openly in another forum thread (to be opened later) to determine the winners.

WINNERS will get something really cool! Last winners won sample libraries, SFX etc, with prize totals worth over $2000!

Your final entries will be due August 31st!

Borislav and I look forward to participating and also hearing what everone comes up with this time!