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Recently I was the extremely lucky and fortunate winner of a pair of BM5A MKII monitors from the good folks at Dynaudio Acoustics.  Most people I know in the music business are familiar with Dynaudio studio monitors and they are very highly esteemed in the professional side of the industry, and for good reason.  Aside from being a pretty stylish addition to my studio, I am continually amazed by the pristine clarity and accuracy in which they pump my work back into my ears. Read more

Recently OC ReMix has been conducting interviews with various game composers and ReMixers.  This is the first time they’ve interviewed an entire team.  As Jack Wall said once, it’s a pretty “epic” interview, put together by the staff AND community forum members of OCR, and it’s very in-depth.  A great read for anyone curious about the process behind writing music for video games.  The good folks at BioWare were even kind enough to plug it on the Mass Effect website, as well as Facebook and Twitter.  There’s a couple ReMixes from Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 to go with it, so head on over today to read up and download the tracks! Or, click “Read More” to stream them on Youtube! Read more

For all the game developers that have found their way here, WALL of SOUND inc (http://wallofsoundinc.com) is a full-service music company providing the highest quality musical experiences for the video game industry. Led by industry legend Jack Wall, the company is a creative collective of individuals working together to produce, mix, master and implement music on any and all gaming platforms.  (Click READ MORE to continue) Read more

I know the Game Developers Conference was over a month ago, but I figured I’d go ahead and post some of the highlights this year: (Click READ MORE to continue)

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Hey friends and fans, some pretty cool news that I’ve been meaning to share for the past few days:  The good folks at Image Line software, the makers of FL Studio have appointed me the honor of being considered a “Power User” when they found out about my use of their software for my work in Mass Effect 2.   Read more

TIMELINE:

May 25 -Mass Effect movie announced.

May21 – Wall of Sound Interview with OC ReMix. BioWare endorses it.

Apr 10 – Mass Effect sales reach over 6.6 million copies

Feb 22 - Mass Effect 2 OST reviewed at Original Sound Version

Feb 01 - Mass Effect 2 OST reaches #11 in Top Soundtrack Albums on iTunes

Jan 31 - Jack Wall interviewed by Daily Best Articles

Jan 29 - Mass Effect 2 sales hit over 2 million copies 3 days after game’s release

Jan 28 - Mass Effect 2 attains top rankings with over 40 perfect scores

Jan 26 – Mass Effect 2 released in North America

Jan 19 – Mass Effect 2 Soundtrack released on Amazon, iTunes, etc.

Jan 11 - Gamespy announces composers

Jan 11 – EA announces composers for Mass Effect 2

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Songs for the Cure ‘10 from Josh Whelchel on Vimeo.

Hello friends and fans!  As some of you may remember, last year I participated in a cancer drive headed by friend and fellow composer Josh Whelchel in the form of writing music for the “Songs for the Cure ‘09″ album.  My participation is what gave birth to the track “Far Beyond Eyes” which you can hear over in the music player on the right of this page.  and assisted Josh, along with the many other talented musicians who also contributed their work to the album.  Collectively, the album raised over $5000 to help fund the American Cancer Society in the fight against cancer. Read more

So 2009 turned out to be a pretty awesome year for your friendly Big Giant Circles.  I wish I’d done a better job of logging it all, but since I have a new site anyway, I figured this would be a good time/place to share with you all some of the particularly awesome experiences I had   So in not-perfect order, here you go!  (Click READ MORE to continue)

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That’s “Music and Gaming festival” if you’re unfamiliar with the word.  It’s a huge celebration of all kinds of things, but mostly video games and video game music.  It’s got everything a nerd (like myself) could ask for Read more