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In this episode, YVES GOURMEUR shares how he approached scoring THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT before having seen a single frame of film and the results after his pre-liminary scoring work was matched up to the edited film.

Brian Ralston takes us through nine tracks from his score for BEING ROSE: sharing how he had to manage not being able to record with any of his musicians simultaneously in the same room; how he used specific instruments to represent the two main characters as well as the two main threads of the film: the love story and central character's spiritual journey.

In this episode, composer Cris Velasco talks about returning to the franchise to score DARKSIDERS 3, after co-composing the score for the first Darksiders game back in 2010.

In this episode, Hannes De Maeyer opens up his score for Immenhof: Das Abenteuer Eines Sommers and how he musically communicated the the feelings and ideas of loss, compassion, perseverance and love. While bringing us through some of the film’s main story-points, De Maeyer dissects a number of his prominent themes and describes how they are employed with a variety of different tones and in different settings throughout the film.

In this episode, Kristina Bishoff talks about her unique challenges in writing her score, both as a composer and a mother of two young children. She explores several of her inspirations and motivations behind several of her key themes and the instrumental palette she chose to help accentuate the reader's experience. She also shares the story of writing a theme (on one-hand) as a part of a stretch-goal from the $100,000 Kickstarter campaign she ran to fund this project.

In this bonus episode, Stefano Lentini talks about the motivation and message behind the music contained on the album 'FURY' and he shares how his music was written to not only to reflect on how humans deal with the emotion of fury, but also on it’s impact upon politics and the world at large.

In this episode, Lasse Enersen shares several behind-the-scenes stories about his composing and the recording of his original score for Finnish film, TUNTEMATON SOTILAS (Unknown Soldier).

In this episode, Stefano Lentini talks about his unusual path to writing music for film and television starting with a piece he wrote for the Italian television series, LA PORTA ROSSA (which was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the Fimucite Film Festival. He then reveals how he was able to get the Stabat Mater he composed to be used in Wong Kar Wai’s 2013 feature film THE GRANDMASTER.

In this episode, composer Steve Horner and co-director, Andrew Chesworth, talk about ONE SMALL STEP, their third collaborative effort for an animated short.

Award-winning composer Winifred Phillips has more than 13 years of experience in the game industry and a long list of video game credits that include titles from five of the biggest franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, LittleBigPlanet, Total War, God of War, and The Sims. In addition, she has written scores for Homefront: The Revolution, the virtual reality game Dragon Front, The Da Vinci Code, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Speed Racer, Shrek the Third, and Spore Hero. One of her recent game projects has been for the VR game SCRAPER: FIRST STRIKE.

Scraper: First Strike is the first episode of a planned five-part VR sci-tech shooter with RPG and exploration elements. It will take the player on a journey through a new IP with fully developed characters, story arcs, and a world filled with unique and exciting environments. In SCRAPER: First Strike, the player takes on the role of Casey Maxwell, a Modified Hover Pod pilot, and a member of the Human Resistance Force (HRF). Your mission is to help the HRF take back Reactor Building 3, restore power to the secret military base, and drive back the Humech robots that have seized New Austin.

In this episode of The Annotator, Winifred Phillips talks about her journey to and through her original score for SCRAPER: FIRST STRIKE. She explains how she represents both the human side and artificial side of the conflict through her choices in instrumentation and provides a detailed, musical exploration for each of the five tracks from the game's original soundtrack presented here.

ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS

02:00 - Joining the project

02:16 - "First Strike"

04:36 - "Human Resistance-Force"

06:25 - "Underground Network"

08:21 - "Humechs Attack"

10:59 - "The Humechs"

SOUNDTRACK

The original score was released by Labrodex Inc on STEAM. 

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more about and hear more music by Winifred Phillips at her official site http://www.winifredphillips.com/ or follow him on twitter @winphillips

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