Reel spins, rollups, symbols, celebrations, underscores - they're all different sound ingredients...
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Podcasts de Charlie McCarron
Kevin MacLeod, King of Royalty-Free Music
If you’ve been to an indie film fest, you’ve probably seen Kevin MacLeod in the credits. Or maybe...
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Jason Graves on Game Composing
Tomb Raider, Until Dawn, and the Dead Space series are some of the big-name video games Jason...
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Blind Film Composer Stephen Letnes
What is life like as a blind composer? It’s a question I’ve wondered about, but haven’t been able...
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Quest 16: Gamer’s Rhapsody Game Jam
Emily Reese (Joon Media), Tim Turi (Game Informer), and Thomas Spargo (Gamer’s Rhapsody) join me...
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How would you score a scene where a guy looks longingly at a bag of Doritos stuck in a vending...
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Video game music seems to have cliche sounds for different types of levels: ice world music,...
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Sometimes you have to give yourself weird challenges to get out of your comfortable habits. In...
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21. 7th Chords and Queen Vocals
Changing a single note in a chord can drastically alter the mood of a piece, like changing from...
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Podcasting 101 with Guest Producer Jenny Handke
For the Season 6 Premiere of Composer Quest, I asked aspiring podcast producer Jenny Handke to...
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Quest 18: MNKINO Film Score Fest 2016
I’m happy to announce that we’re bringing back MNKINO Film Score Fest this year! If you haven’t...
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Improv Looping with Mandy and Mikey
Are you a "gardener" composer or an "architect" composer? My new (almost) neighbors Michael...
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Composing for a Mutant Lobster Wife with Sage Lewis
When I called up Sage Lewis on Skype, I didn’t realize he was a fellow Minnesotan. He’s now out...
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To have any real emotional impact, music has to have some sort of payoff, through repeated...
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Asperger's Are Us Composer Crystal Grooms Mangano
Crystal Grooms Mangano recently scored the documentary Asperger’s Are Us, which follows a comedy...
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Daniel Levitin on Evolution and Songwriting
Musician, neuroscientist, and author Daniel Levitin has brought music psychology to the masses...
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What do you do when you've written an A section and B section that don't quite fit together? In...
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A few weeks ago, I got to participate in a very fun live composing event at GlitchCon, called...
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Patching Together a Creative Life with Anton Torres
Anton Torres has been an electronic music hobbyist for over 20 years, using the very earliest...
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Since the recent episodes of Composer Quest have been about electronic and video game music, I...
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