The Fanitarium - For Geeks By Geeks

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  • Musical Procrastination #24: Christopher Tin and the Music of Civilizations!
    In Musical Procrastination #24 we interview Christopher Tin, the two time Grammy Award winning composer behing songs like Baba Yeti (Civilization 4) and Sogno Di Volare (Civilization 6) as well as music for X2, The Ring etc. Christopher Tin also has several albums out including the Grammy Award winning Calling All Dawns and its followup The Drop That Contained the Sea. 
     
    More about Christopher Tin
    He writes music for the concert hall, but also for film, video games and commercials. His albums have reached #1 on the Billboard charts, his songs have been sampled by rappers and covered by trance acts, and he's had entire concerts at Carnegie Hall devoted to his music. He also collaborates with a wide variety of artists: from electronic music pioneers, to opera legends, to international stars of world music.
    He made history with his song “Baba Yetu,” winning the first Grammy ever awarded to a piece of music written for a video game (Civilization IV) — then made history again by winning the last ever Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album (for Calling All Dawns). He followed that album up in 2014 with another fusion of world and classical music, The Drop That Contained the Sea, debuting at #1 on Billboard's classical charts, and premiering to a sold out audience at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium.
    Tin grew up in northern California, firmly grounded in classical music, but with a heavy musical wanderlust: playing in jazz combos, writing musicals for his classmates, and obsessively listening to '70s classic rock concept albums. As he got older he supplemented his formal training by studying the music and languages of different cultures, but also by immersing himself in the underground rave scene of '90s San Francisco. He did his undergraduate composition studies at Stanford and Oxford; then won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London, where he graduated at the head of his class.
    He now lives and works in Santa Monica, where he serves as a Governor of the LA Chapter of the Recording Academy.
     
    For more on Christopher Tin goto his website at: https://christophertin.com
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    56 min
  • Musical Procrastination #23: Chad Seiter Composer of Microsoft's ReCore
    In Musical Procrastination #23 - Jeremiah steps in for Lee as he interviews Chad Seiter, composer for the new Microsoft title ReCore. Chad Seiter has also worked on many other franchises such as Star Trek, Lost, Fringe, Jurassic World and more!
    About Chad Seiter from: http://www.chadseiter.com/
    A prolific composer, arranger and orchestrator for film, television, video games and symphonic concerts, Chad Seiter has composed and produced original music for major Hollywood franchises including Star Trek, Fringe and LOST. He is also Composer, Music Director and Associate Executive Producer for Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions and The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses touring concert series performing symphonic arrangements of the classic Nintendo scores performed with hundreds of the world’s leading orchestras.
     
    Chad Seiter started his musical career as assistant to Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino, providing orchestration on hit television series LOST and blockbuster films including Jurassic World, the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, Cloverfield, Speed Racer, and later composing for the first season of the highly rated television series Fringe, recording each weekly episode with the highly coveted Hollywood Studio Orchestra scoring musicians.
     
    He also scored the AAA video games LEGO Jurassic World, Star Trek, and Fracture, as well as providing additional music to Ratatouille, Up, LOST: Via Domus, and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. Majestic and epic in scope, Seiter’s original score for Star Trek was performed by 123 musicians of the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, one of the largest ensembles ever recorded for a game.
     
    As Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Music Director for The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses and The Legend of Zelda: 25th Anniversary Symphony live concert tours, Chad Seiter’s acclaimed orchestral arrangements of Koji Kondo’s iconic video game scores have been performed by the world’s most prestigious orchestras including The Royal Philharmonic, The Tokyo Philharmonic and The National Symphony.
     
    Seiter recently launched his latest epic concert production as Associate Executive Producer and Co-Creator, Composer, Lead Arranger and Music Director of Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions, a new, live orchestral touring concert showcasing memorable music from the world of Pokémon.
     
    With sold-out shows and rave reviews for his symphonies currently touring worldwide, Seiter looks forward to new and interesting projects that combine his creative voice and love of the orchestra.
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    1 hr 12 min

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