Game Audio Hour

Game Audio Hour

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Game Audio Hour episodes

  • Ep. 237 - From VSTi to VSTai in 3, 2, 1...

    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

    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep. 236 - Happy New Gear...YEAR! I mean YEAR!

    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

    57 min
  • Ep. 235 - Have A Holly Jolly Game Audio Hour!

    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

    21 min
  • Ep. 234 - Where One Cares to Acknowledge the Mistakes of One's Youth

    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

    1 hr 22 min
  • Ep. 233 - Martin Stig Andersen Controls the Horizontal and the Vertical!

    The GAH trio is joined by renowned game audio designer and music composer Martin Stig Andersen of Control, Inside, and Limbo fame... but there's more to him than just those titles! Alex, Mike, and Vince pepper him with questions and mostly avoid the usual Black Friday talk on this exciting episode!

    Notable mentions include:

    Tristan Murail (French composer)

    AudioSculpt (software, IRCAM)
    Studer (manufacturer of professional tape recorders)
    BX15 and BX20 spring reverbs (AKG)
    Oddity3 (softsynth, GForce)
    chipsynth MD (softsynth, Plogue)
    The Midnight Club (TV series from writer creator Mike Flannagan)

    Featuring: Alex May, Michael Shapiro, Vincent Diamante, and special guest Martin Stig Andersen

    Recorded November 25, 2022

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep. 232 - Chatting About Everything(?!) with Jeff Broadbent (where Everything = Music!)

    The trio is now a quo... quado... quartet! That's the word!

    Mike, Alex, and Vince are joined this episode by Jeff Broadbent (https://jeffbroadbent.com/), a composer that has an established career working in media, especially some of gaming's most well-loved franchises. We start from the beginning (Panzer Dragoon?!) and go on to chat about other history, advice, gear, and the latest things on his and our minds!

    Notable mentions include:

    Exo One (game, Exbleative)

    La Traviata (opera, Verdi)
    Perdido Street Station (novel, China Miéville)
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike (arcade game, Capcom)
    The Southern Reach Trilogy (novel series, Jeff VanderMeer)
    2:22 A Ghost Story (play, Danny Robins)

    Featuring: Alex May, Michael Shapiro, Vincent Diamante, and special guest Jeff Broadbent

    Recorded November 11, 2022

    1 hr 20 min
  • Ep. 231 - Reboot Your Life With A New Instrument!

    Alex and Vince are at it again!

    This episode features Vince trying to cajole Alex into coming to LA for GameSoundCon, but really it's all a front for how envious he is of Alex being able to hangout with Martin Stig Andersen for dinner while they were at the Reboot conference! Still, there's plenty of other fun stuff, from thoughts about Wwise to piano talk and game recommendations to make this a GAH episode for the ages!

    Notable mentions include:

    Reboot Develop Blue (game conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia)

    Martin Stig Anderson (sound designer)
    Limbo (Playdead)
    Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock Studios)
    Scars Above (Mad Head Games)
    Dimitrije Cvetković (audio director)
    Wurlitzer spinets (half-decent pianos)
    Mason and Hamlin (American piano manufacturer)
    Jazz Hanon (piano studies)
    Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Cold Iron Studios, music by Austin Wintory)
    140 (developed by Jeppe Carlsen)


    1 hr 6 min
  • Ep. 230 - Game Audio History with Special Guest Brian Schmidt

    Mike, Vince, and Alex have a special guest this episode!

    Brian Schmidt comes on the show along with his vast experience working on game, starting from pinball and arcade games in the mid-80s, through console hardware audio in the 2000s, and to the present day and his current station as founder and executive director of GameSoundCon. Along the way, the crew hits some great high points in game audio history and geeks out: entirely too much.

    Notable mentions include:

    Black Knight 2000 (pinball game, Williams)

    Tattoo Assassins (arcade fighting game, Data East)
    XACT (audio toolset and programming library, Microsoft)
    Defender (arcade shooting game, Williams)
    Destiny 2 (first-person shooter, Bungie)
    Deathloop (first-person shooter, Arkane Lyon)
    Ni no Kuni (role playing game, Level-5)
    Roel Funcken - https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/ (musician)
    Canabalt (web and mobile game, Adam Saltsman and Danny Baranowsky)

    GameSoundCon, October 25-26 in Los Angeles, CA (www.gamesoundcon.com)

    Featuring: Alex May, Michael Shapiro, Vincent Diamante, and special guest Brian Schmidt

    Recorded September 23, 2022

    1 hr 16 min
  • Ep. 229 - The Way of the Dodo and Other Musical Arts Techniques

    The crew of Alex, Mike, and Vince reconvene after a much needed summer break... and they get right back into it! Some new toys, new techniques, and a bit of consideration/prognostication about algorithmic music are par for the course here at the GAH headquarters!

    Notable mentions include:

    Dodotronic Ultrasonic Microphones - https://www.dodotronic.com/product-category/usb-microphones/?v=2a47ad90f2ae

    Chipsynth OPS7 - https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-ops7.html
    Pigments - https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigments/overview
    Phase Plant - https://kilohearts.com/products/phase_plant
    Objeq Delay - https://www.applied-acoustics.com/objeq-delay/
    Triple Cheese - https://u-he.com/products/triplecheese/
    Michael Winslow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winslow
    AIVA - https://www.aiva.ai/
    Anthony Jackson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Jackson_(musician)
    City Wars: Tokyo Reign - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1689090/CITY_WARS_TOKYO_REIGN/
    Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6cadOIa5DTh6a5mGo5r4bh

    Featuring: Alex May, Michael Shapiro, and Vincent Diamante

    Recorded September 16, 2022

    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep. 228 - A Producer and a Composer Walk Into a Bar...

    Mike and Alex convene and chat about game music from some different angles, starting from the perspective of various software and how they treat music input/recording and representation, and moving on to their own interlinked experiences working as a game producer and music composer and those specific experiences working in game development. Eventually they chat about some true classic experiences from yesteryear: Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre and BioWare's classic RPG Mass Effect.

    Featuring: Alex May and Michael Gordon Shapiro

    Recorded: July 15, 2022

    1 hr 7 min

About Game Audio Hour

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A podcast that features a varied cohort conversing regularly about game audio since 2014! Ideas, techniques, secrets, opinions, and all the miscellany you can fathom related to the world of sound…

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