Tag: music

  • Interpreting Thelonious Monk’s “25 Tips for Musicians” To Game Development

    In 1960, saxophonist Steve Lacy was hired to play a series of performances with Thelonious Monk. During that time he wrote down a list of tips — things Monk said, observations he made, advice offered in the way that advice often gets offered in a working band: casually, in the moment, not necessarily intended to…

  • Sound High Level Thoughts

    A few months back I was given the opportunity to put together and present a talk to the whole studio about game audio. Keeping it under twenty minutes meant staying deliberately high level — which was harder than it sounds, because audio is one of those topics where every thread you pull leads to three…

  • Losing The Things We Love

    I recently found some old music playlists of my own creation from 2011-2012. While the playlists themselves still exist, my efforts to compile or at least listen to the music on them has been a challenge. Many songs are no longer physically being printed. A handful are not available on any streaming services. Some are…