Hi there, I'm a music graduate and composer, looking to build a portfolio to eventually make the scary jump from office drone to freelance later this year. I'd be interested in any opportunities to compose original music for upcoming games. I'm a classical composer and songwriter, and my orchestrations tend to be quite full/dramatic/cinematic, with a penchant for unusual time signatures and some dissonance. My composition and songwriting also tends to be quite narrative, and I have a passion for musical theatre/cabaret, so would be particularly interested in games requiring incidental music to assist in storytelling. I can provide notated score and/or midi files - I'm not sure how music is usually supplied for games..? I guess it varies... Please get in touch if you're interested - I'm really keen to get any projects on the go! I can send you some recent samples. I'm afraid I don't have a website to point you to yet, but it's in the pipeline... All the best, Matt PS. Here is a recent track I've been working on orchestrating. It's in progress, but you get an idea... fuller orchestration kicks in around 2mins, change of feel around 3mins.
it definitely does vary! midi / mp3 / ogg / pcm (raw) so many ways - depending on how busy the games are; there may be different alternatives for music - you don't want to be spending 20% of your time decoding an mp3 if you need as many FPS as you can! i would say formats vary on a case by case basis - MIDI is good; as it lets it be small - but you can also convert to pcm, mp3 et al.
Thanks very much for this. I plan to soon invest in some decent orchestral samples so I can output better-sounding MP3s if required (my friend made the above for me from a MIDI file) - I just need to look into how best to go about this. This might be a stupid question - showing my lack of techy knowledge - but isn't a MIDI file just the information... sequence of notes/volume etc... without containing any actual sounds or samples? So the device needs to be able to playback midi and have a basic bank of synth sounds? Thanks again for the advice! Matt
