Opera in Seattle. MIDI Draft Anxiety. GDC energy reserves. Game audio household name ZW Buckley joins me to talk about worldwide game audio groups, AI and its potential effect on audio work, and exploring murder in Baldur’s Gate 3. 

ZW’s Website:

https://www.zwbuckley.com/

ZW’s GDC Roundtable:

https://gdcvault.com/play/1034332/Remotely-Possible-Mental-Health-and

Game Audio Local Groups Map:

https://www.asoundeffect.com/game-audio-community-groups/

Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Supreme Court Case:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/598/21-869/

Keyword 2: Nightfall on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2015470/Keyword_2_Nightfall/

Spelunking. Recording a mine shaft. The modularity of both circus and casino game music. RV’s flying apart while in transit. Awkward job interviews. In this episode I talk to Gabe Romero and Dan Glynn, both former circus musicians for Ringling, and both sound designers for Konami here in Vegas. They are also the founding members of the band Greybag, whose latest album is called Never Meant To Stay.

Greybag’s website:

https://www.greybagmusic.com/

Never Meant To Stay on Bandcamp:

https://greybagmusic.bandcamp.com/album/never-meant-to-stay

Game Jams. Post Secondary Postulations. Beatmapping. Spaced-Out Studs. Alexa Thanos (Thay-nohs, not the purple guy) is my first guest after a year of no podding. We talk about her roots as a musician, her partnership with Sean Ettlin to form Spaced Out Studios, their newest album The Little Bookshelf, and overall just have a great discussion about creating music.

Alexa’s Website https://www.alexathanos.com/home

Alexa’s Twitter https://twitter.com/tinythanos

Spaced Out Studio’s Website https://www.spacedoutstudios.co/

Spaced Out Studio’s Twitter https://twitter.com/spacedout_studs

Alexa and Sean’s latest album https://spacedoutstudios.bandcamp.com/album/the-little-bookshelf-album

Space Cadet Academy: https://www.spacedoutstudios.co/space-cadet-academy

Monochrome Motif Records: https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/artists

Badself Media: https://badselfmedia.com/

Spicer returns from a year long hiatus from poddin’, bruised but not broken, having tried his hand at a career in game audio just in time for the Layoffalypse™ of 2023.

Spicer plugs his friends' projects in the most narcissistic way possible.

Links:

Digital Scorpion Interactive’s website https://digitalscorpioninteractive.com/

DSI on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/search?term=digi_scorp

Chris Polus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisPolus?s=20

Zach Fried on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arecibofilms/

Mat Hayes’ Shafted on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21980872/

Hare Runner on itch.io: https://crychair.itch.io/harerunner

Miyukiew (Hare Runner artist) on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miyukiew/

Automated Dialogue Replacement. Game Jams. Truck Days. Seth McFarlane’s Parking Spot. Reactions to reaction videos. Jeremy Scott Olsen does music and sound, and he loves it. You’ll love listening to talk about him loving it, too.

Badself Music (JSO’s new record label!): https://badselfmusic.com

JSO’s website: https://main.jeremyscottolsen.com/

Hare Runner, the game we made for Ludum Dare 52: https://crychair.itch.io/harerunner

Swiss cheese car pedals. The Berklee Curse. Cruise ships. Fungus tonsils. Backyard bamboo. Wooden car parts. Las Vegas trumpeter Michael Rabadan takes a break from buzzing his lips to talk to a fellow Michael about being a musician nowadays and have a couple laughs about our strange career choices.

Michael’s Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/michaelrabadan/

Clogs for the feet. Sprained ankles. Wheelchairs. Management skills. Hoedowns. In this comeuppance episode, I do a better job at asking my wife about her actual life: Her career as a cruise ship performer, her chronic pain and multiple surgeries, her first switch from dancing to wardrobe, followed by another switch to working with animals. 

To find out about volunteering with Merridith or donating to the Nevada SPCA, visit https://nevadaspca.org/

SpicerAudio.com is up and running! Happy New Year!

Newsies, box wine, and other white girl shit are the subject of this episode with MRS. Spice To Meet You. Merridith Elrod kicks back with her husband and talks about her journey from cruise ship dancer to volunteer coordinator at the Nevada SPCA.

To find out how to support or volunteer with the Nevada SPCA, go to https://nevadaspca.org