Music for Gaming: What's Working + What's Ahead
Grab a glass of your favorite beverage and join our panel of industry experts as they discuss the current landscape and what the future holds in the world of soundtracks for gaming.
The 40-minute moderated panel will be followed by a 20-minute Q&A between panelists and attendees.
INTERACTIVE ZOOM SESSION
Thursday, JULY 9 @ 3:30 PM PST
Panel discussion followed by Q&A
Limited space. Register today.
Brandon Young
Sr. Director of Music Affairs
Activision
At the helm of Activision’s Music Department since 2003, Brandon has led the musical creative direction for all of Activision’s in-game music initiatives, any/all music in marketing and promotional assets and partnerships, and anything that touches music. Franchises Brandon has worked on include Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and Tony Hawk. In the music world, iconic composers and artists such as Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Metallica, Aerosmith, Van Halen and Taylor Swift.
Gavin Johnson
Head of Gaming
Monstercat
For the past 8 years at Monstercat, Gavin has helped seamlessly connect music and gaming communities through strategic partnerships and campaigns. Monstercat currently has on-going music content partnerships with Rocket League, Beat Saber, and various gaming companies.
About This Series: Syncing Music with Media
Industry leaders in the music supervision space will discuss how the content business has been impacted by the pandemic, and how they envision this will play out through lockdown, social distancing and beyond.
Victoria Wiltshire
Victoria began her professional music career as a recording artist with Australian group, 'Culture Shock' after signing to Sony Music in 1993, resulting in a top #20 national single.
Following the success of Culture Shock, she expanded her performing career to musical theater, songwriting and production.
In 2003 Victoria formed a songwriting/production partnership with music producer, now-husband, Paul Wiltshire. Over the following 15 years, the pair wrote &/or produced for The Backstreet Boys, Australian Idol, Engelbert Humperdinck, Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem and many more, with sales exceeding 15 million internationally.
Following her writing/production success, Victoria became Creative Director for 360 degree music company, PLW Entertainment, overseeing artist & product development, image design and marketing.
As Chief Experience Officer, Victoria infuses her passion for the creative and innovative into all that she does while overseeing the overall, holistic experience of Songtradr's global ecosystem.
Victoria Wiltshire I just want to say thats an amazing accomplishments I have no kind of management or studio access and my whole city is waiting do you have any suggestions and ideas that may help me with my hit. I believe with someone like your wisdom I could live my full potential with less worrying.
Hi Christopher,
Thank you so much for your note. I know many are in a similar situation, with limited access.
While this may not answer your question fully, I’d like to share a couple of posts that give potential resources to music artists:
How to ‘Spring Clean Your Music Career During Lockdown
5 Music Artist Resources You Can Use Now — Amid the Coronavirus
If you find additional resources, please feel free to share with us as well.
Take care.
Will there be a replay? The GMS webinar is at exactly the same time. I’d love to see this and hope there will be a replay link. Thank you!
Hi Michele, thanks for writing. Yes, will have on our Facebook page. We’ll also have on YouTube starting Friday and with a recap next week on our blog.
Of course, if you’re able to join live you can participate in Q&A.
Take care!