Winifred Phillips’ Guide to Game Composing
Book review of Winifred Phillips’ A Composer’s Guide to Game Music (MIT Press) + related reviews integrated from the old website.
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Book: Composer’s Guide to Game Music, A (2014)
Winifred Phillips’ decision to start her composing career exclusively in video games isn’t unique, but she may be one of the most dedicated and articulate composers working today, and her latest work – a book-length intro guide to the highly specialized craft of game music – is a meticulously written tome…
MP3: SimAnimals (2008)
Separated from Nintendo’s videogame, Winifred Phillips’ music for Sim Animals stands very well on its own as a collection of insanely cheerful themes that manage to avoid the pitfalls of being cloying and saccharine…
MP3: Spore Hero (2009)
Winifred Phillips’ score for the Nintendo Wii video game begins with a brassy heroic theme’s filled with the brassy swagger of a swashbuckling actioner, and yet there’s a contemporary rock edge…
MP3: Assassin’s Creed III – Liberation (2012)
Score: Excellent Label: Ubisoft Music Released: October 30, 2012 Tracks / Album Length: 26 tracks / (63:43) Composer: Winifred Phillips Special Notes: n/a Review: For UBISOFT’s female-led spinoff game, Winifred Phillips composed a multitude of cues that carry forward the orchestral-electronic sounds of Lorne Balfe’s Assassin’s Creed III, yet typical of Phillips’ writing, there’s a wealth […]
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