Podcast #3 with Inon Zur

Inon Zur on how he broke into the video game business, why he decided to get involved with the Endgame Music Library, and the story behind the making of the album Dramatic Fantastic

SHOW NOTES:

0:15 Introduction

2:26 Bob Rice, veteran of video game music who has represented top video game composers for decades and who understands what type of music gamers want most, talks about his involvement in the video game music business, how video game music composers benefit from licensing their music for use in film, TV shows, and trailer advertisement, his familiarity with the production music industry and what lead him to APM.

7:48 Inon Zur on how he broke into the video game business, why he decided to get involved with the Endgame Music Library, and the story behind the making of the album Dramatic Fantastic, which features an eighty piece orchestra and forty person choir.

14:39 Zur talks about matching the music to the game genre, scoring for role playing games versus shooting games, the similarities between the type of music that works in a trailer and the type that works in a video game, and the cues he has contributed to the Endgame Music Library.

19:56 Music Medley. 1) Treasure Hunt from the disc ADVENTURE STORIES. 2) For the Heroes from the disc DARK HEROES. 3) Clouds of War from the disc DARK HEROES. All three production music tracks are composed by Zur and featured in the Endgame Music Library.

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