Video Game Music Industry Expert Interview Honoraria
Academic Year:
2013 - 2014 (June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014)
Funding Requested:
$400.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
I write to request 400 dollars to conduct four virtual (Skype) interviews with various top-level industry professionals throughout the semester as part of classroom activities. Through work on my game music blog, videogamemusicnerd.blogspot.com, I've made connections with guest speakers: Karen Collins (Associate Professor, University of Waterloo) who is the leading game audio scholar in the western world; Brian Schmidt (founding member of the Game Audio Network Guild (GANG)) who is a composer, audio programmer, game audio consultant, and creator of GameSoundCon; and George Sanger, author of The Fat Guide to Game Audio, game audio think-tank guru, and well respected composer, and Damian Kastbauer, audio implementor and co-creator of gameaudiopodcast. Each conversation will be timed to coincide with and reinforce classroom discussions of similar topics. For instance, the interview with Damian Kastbauer will take place during the section of the class when we're discussing audio implementation and the conversation with George Sanger will be concurrent with beginning our Composition Quest! In these interactive conversations, I'll act as moderator and give the students the chance to speak directly to professional experts, fleshing out class readings and discussions. As a way to extend the function of these interviews, I plan to record these video conversations for re-use and would also like to make these recorded interviews available via the UM-library for access by the community.