Sentences with phrase «lead composer of»

(his birth name is 椙山 浩一, which is pronounced the same)(born April 11, 1931) is the lead composer of the Dragon Quest series, with other works done for Japanese TV shows, such as Space Runaway Ideon, Cyborg 009 and Gatchaman.

Koji Kondo has been the lead composer of all of the series» music for the span of Zelda's existence, and since none of the characters ever truly speak in the series, the entire franchise has relied on music cues to give characters personality, give environments personally, evoke proper emotions, and so on.

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Business Insider recently spoke to Matt Novack, one of the composers of the series alongside lead composer Craig Wedren (School of Rock, Anchorman, GLOW), about the challenges of composing comedy, and parodying the music of a nostalgic decade.

Douglas Yeo (bass trombonist with the Boston Symphony), Phil Smith (principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic), Wendy White (mezzo — soprano with the Metropolitan Opera), Jerry Blackstone (co — director of the country's leading conducting program at the University of Michigan), and Michael Kurick (award — winning composer on Vanderbilt's faculty) are but a handful of the hundreds upon hundreds of Christians active as professional musicians outside of C — Pop.

England's favourite composer produced some of his greatest works after binge - eating and lead poisoning began to take their toll

Developed by a team led by McPherson of technicians, composers and musicians at Queen Mary, University of London, TouchKeys allows pianists to try out musical techniques that were previously unimaginable on a keyboard.

In 1909 a coterie of intellectuals, including writer Franz Kafka, composer Giacomo Puccini, and poet and aviator Gabriele D'Annunzio, flocked to Brescia, Italy, to watch the world's leading aviators as they competed for prizes in speed, altitude, and distance.

In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world.

In terms of new participants, we find material from stunt performer Isaac Hamon, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Nick Keller, Weta Workshop sculptors Kim Beaton and Jamie Beswarick, Weta Workshop concept artists Frank Victoria, Lindsey Crummett, Greg Tozer and Johnny Fraser - Allen, hair and makeup designer Peter Swords King, costume designers Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck, costumer Amy Craven, textile artist Kelly Olatunji, Weta Workshop technician Kim Docherty, special makeup and prosthetics supervisor Jason Docherty, prosthetic makeup artist Georgia Allen, master swordsmith Peter Lyon, additional costumer Emma Evans, lead creatures designer Andrew Baker, digital creature supervisor Simon Clutterbuck, textures technical supervisor Glen Sharah, senior shader TD Christopher George, VFX supervisor Chris White, texture artist Daniel Bennett, actor Manu Bennett, Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour owner Russell Alexander, supervising art director Simon Bright, art director Brian Massey, set dresser Ben Whale, Middle - Earth Minstrel editor / author Bradford Lee Eden, sound designer Dave Whitehead, composer David Long, and musician Neil Finn.

Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling discovery: The source of the nightmares may lie in a past - life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world - famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer - husband Roman... in 1948.

Mozart (Tom Hulce) is an adolescent boor touched by the hand of God; Emperor Joseph's (Jeffrey Jones) court composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) becomes obsessed and desperately jealous of Mozart's gift, leading him to the madhouse and confessions of murder.

Thomas Newman is one of the leading film composers of his generation, but it was hard to imagine how Skyfall would turn out — action thrillers are not things that figure remotely prominently in his filmography.

So Cuaron, who used the same writer (Steven Kloves), production designer (Stuart Craig), composer (John Williams) and trio of leads as the previous two films did, ended up putting the best face on a problematic situation.

His pursuit of music composition then lead him to Venice for a period of studio with the Italian master, Luigi Nono and then finally to Los Angeles to undertake a fellowship with Academy Award - winning composer, Jerry Goldsmith.

Fellows participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of leading film composers and film music professionals acting as Creative Advisors.

Clint Mansell is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer of the band Pop Will Eat Itself.

Usually the preferred composer for Spike Jonze and the Coen Brothers, last year saw composer Carter Burwell miss out on scoring duties for the filmmakers» latest efforts in favor of musicians — indie band Arcade Fire subbing in for «Her» and T. Bone Burnett leading a group of cast - members and musicians for a period - authentic folk soundtrack in «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

Remarkably assured in his multiple roles of director, lead actor, composer, and screenwriter, Gallo delivers on his lofty ambitions in this captivating (and at times comedic) drama of contemporary alienation.

«Stepping Into Darkness: The Visual Design of Sicario» focuses on crafting the film's look and defining cinematography, «Blunt, Brolin and Benicio: Portraying the Characters of Sicario» features interviews with the three leads, «Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario» researches the brutal history of drug violence along the border (it features graphic imagery so beware), and «A Pulse from the Desert: The Score of Sicario,» which runs about 6 minutes, profiles composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

The previously lead music composer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Manaka Kataoka, is reportedly leading up the soundtrack for the upcoming Zelda title Breath of the Wild for Wii U and Nintendo Switch.

Behind the scenes, the creative team was led by director of photography Eduardo Serra, production designer Stuart Craig, editor Mark Day, composer Alexandre Desplat, visual effects supervisor Tim Burke, and costume designer Jany Temime.

His versatility as a composer has led to a busy and varied movie - scoring career taking him across musical boundaries from the acclaimed BAFTA - winning film TOUCHING THE VOID to THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND.

The film has three unknowns in John Magaro, Will Brill and Jack Huston (who has since broken out with his role on «Boardwalk Empire «-RRB- as the leads, which shouldn't be a problem as Chase's depiction of youth with inexperienced talent on his HBO show was stellar, but it also boasts a strong supporting cast with Bella Heathcote as the protagonist Magaro's girlfriend, Christopher McDonald as her father, Molly Price as Magaro's mother, Lisa Lampenelli as his aunt, Brad Garrett as a composer / producer, and Chase's «Sopranos» leading man James Gandolfini, who apparently shines as Magaro's father, «a postwar, post-Depression era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up.»

One person who knows Malick better than many is composer Hanan Townshend, who has worked regularly with the director ever since a chance encounter led to him supporting fellow composer Alexandre Desplat on The Tree of Life.

ALEX HEFFES (Composer) is one of the UK's leading film composers.

The elegant and somewhat unconventional presentation of the campus setting combined female leads, odd inexplicable occurrence and Brit composer Jim Williams» at times overwhelming score, suggests a pedigree similar to the Dario Argento classic Suspiria (1977), which to my mind merely suggests that Ducournau is motivated by the macabre best.

Sundance Institute Film Music Program, led by Peter Golub connects composers and directors, giving them first - hand experience of the collaborative process, with the goal of nurturing the development of music in film.

This doc from the 2003 Director's Cut special edition DVD features comments from Johnson, Arad, Kilkenny, producer Gary Foster, costume designer James Acheson, textile artist Matt Reitsma, art department coordinator Jamie Neese, costume supervisor Lisa Lovaas, Paul Ben - Victor, Joe Pantoliano, action choreographer Master Cheung - Yan Yuen, Jennifer Garner, stunt coordinator Jeff Imada, Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Affleck's fight trainer David Lea, director of photography Ericson Core, sight - impaired consultant Tom Sullivan, Jon Favreau, special effects coordinator John McLeod, visual effects supervisor Rich Thorne, Shadow World fx lead Eric Horton, and composer Graeme Revell.

Only composer Thomas Newman (Side Effects) comes up short, his music never achieving liftoff, the music instead sounding as if he's attempting his best John Williams imitation instead of allowing his own Oscar - winning instincts to lead him in a personal, and likely more effective, direction.

The creative behind - the - scenes team is led by director of photography Andrew Lesnie, production designer Dan Hennah, editor Jabez Olssen and composer Howard Shore.

The film was the darling of Cannes and is already leading the rumours for next year's Academy Awards ®, but only took home one award; European Composer.

Amid some of the most beautiful art and architecture that Europe has to offer, and often accompanied by a soundtrack of history's most enduring composers (Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss), the two leads, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), search for meaning and permanence in a world that emphasizes disposability.

In an interview with CBC Radio (via Indiewire), Zimmer reveals that his favorite film composer is Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead.

, like uh composer David Arnold's fascinating process of discussing his score - in - progress with the leads, but they are few and far between the verbal tics of man to whom investors have entrusted screenplay duties on many occasions.

With no time for meticulous preparation or rehearsals, he chose a rock - solid cast led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks and surrounded himself with a trusted A-team of collaborators including cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, production designer Rick Carter, costume designer Ann Roth (a Streep favorite), and composer John Williams.

Composer Irving Berlin didn't want a bio of his life, so the studio constructed a fictional riff, leading up to some new thing called «swing.»

The site features «demonstration pages» that include a variety of different categories, such as genres, lead instruments, and composer.

How will they express the true intent of the composer without someone leading the way?

In these interviews you'll be introduced to the lead game designer, composer, art director, and the head of the AurumDust team.

Andrew is the co-founder and lead designer of Impact Soundworks, where he develops sample libraries and virtual instruments for composers.

The previously lead music composer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Manaka Kataoka, is reportedly leading up the soundtrack for the upcoming Zelda title Breath of the Wild for Wii U and Nintendo Switch.

In A Composer's Guide to Game Music, Winifred Phillips — herself an award - winning composer of video game music — provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in thComposer's Guide to Game Music, Winifred Phillips — herself an award - winning composer of video game music — provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in thcomposer of video game music — provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in thcomposer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field.

With Profile's core team - director Yoshiharu Gotanda and lead designer Masaki Norimoto, along with composer Motoi Sakuraba, Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky's development team seems devoted to rekindling the synergy that propelled Valkyrie Profile.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer of gothic rock band HIM, Ville Valo,

After graduating, she worked at Microsoft as Audio Lead, Sound Designer, and Composer on a variety of projects.

After working at Capcom and Square Enix for much of her career, she now continues to compose for games through freelance work, and is currently the lead composer on the upcoming Square Enix flagship titles Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III.

Developer Nude Maker assembled a dream team of developers and artists for the project, including The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu, Silent Hill creature designer Masahiro Ito, Bloodmasque and Tenchu artist Kyoshi Arai, Bubblegum Crisis artist Shinki Aramaki, Castlevania composer Michiru Yamane, and of course, the lead developer for the Clock Tower series, Hifumi Kono.

Developed in collaboration with ω - Force (Omega Force) from KOEI TECMO GAMES and led by a legendary trio of creators including series mastermind Yuji Horii, revolutionary composer Koichi Sugiyama and world - renowned artist Akira Toriyama, the game brings DRAGON QUEST, a franchise with over 100 titles in Japan to - date, back to the West in full force.

The combination of religious music intertwined with lead composer Dan Romer's theme illustrates the trials and tribulations that the citizen's of Hope County endure and offers optimism of forthcoming changes.