magmacranes

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music person (derogatory)

composer: Shouting Down Midnight, Noclip, Helheim Hassle & many more

music implementer: The Lamplighter’s League

maker of interactive musical experiences: Which is Witch and inter-view, currently making Divinuet

🌃: Chicago


A thing I’ve noticed is that when I talk to games people they’re like “hmm idk, seems like your experience is mostly in film” and when I talk to film people they’re like “hmm idk, seems like you’ve been mostly working on games lately” so that’s been fun

I don’t like to cry sexism without a lot of evidence that that's what's happening, but I feel like there may be an element of that here too, unconsciously looking for reasons to doubt my abilities. Like if anything, I dunno, isn’t it maybe kind of impressive that I can score to picture AND know Wwise like the back of my hand?

I’m passionate about game composing and I’m passionate about film composing. Loving and being good at one does not take away from loving and being good at the other. Somehow people can accept this with different skills (music & sound design) but not different mediums. It's very frustrating!

(And of course, there are a lot of more successful cishet white dude composers that do both game and film music, and people see that as a plus rather than a detriment. Isn't that interesting)


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