Extended Show Notes
- 00:00:30 · William and Glenn interview Mike Morasky.
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William McMahon —
Host
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Glenn (aka. HecticGlenn) —
Host
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Mike Morasky —
Interviewee
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William McMahon —
- 00:10:20 – Who is Mike Morasky?
- Differences between film and video games.
- Mike’s gaming history.
- Valve’s interview process.
- Weta Digital
- Bay Raitt, a digital modeler and animator.
- 00:12:10 – Working at Valve
- Is the music industry competitive?
- Fraps, real time video capture & benchmarking.
- How music directs emotion in video games.
- Diegesis, a style of representation in fiction.
- Valve’s Approach to Playtesting (pdf).
- Jaws (1975)
- Collaboration at Valve.
- Games Mike has worked on.
- Is the music industry competitive?
- 00:26:10 – Kelly Bailey
- Details of Kelly’s departure.
- Information on “undisclosed projects”.
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Glitch, a genre of electronic music.
- 00:32:55 – Inspirations
- Philip Glass
- Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
- Steve Reich
- Terry Riley
- Inspiration for noises and music.
- 00:43:10 – Portal 2 Audio
- Co-op campaign finale details.
- Escape sequences details.
- How music was composed for Portal 2.
- Hardest track/sequence to compose.
- Intro sequence details.
- 00:59:05 – Exclusive First Draft of Portal 2 Intro
- 01:05:40 – Dynamic Music in Portal 2
- Chambers devoid of music.
- Introductions to dynamic music.
- Syncing the dynamic music.
- Details on the new Sound Operator Stack for back syncing.
- Deciding what an object sounds like.
- Psychology of dynamic music.
- Dynamic music and the SDK. – Slight SDK details.
- Information on Tim and Justin from Valve Software.
- 01:30:30 – Technical Hardware and Software Questions
- Logic Pro, be a musician, sound like an engineer.
- Steinberg, creativity first.
- Digital audio workstations.
- REAPER, audio production without limits.
- Chiptune, a form of synthesised music.
- REAKTOR 5, the future of sound.
- Studiologic VMK-88 Plus USB Controller.
- KORE 2, the next-generation workstation.
- Korg nanoSERIES, most compact family of USB-MIDI controllers.
- Hans Zimmer,a German film score and music producer.
- 01:40:00 – Advice for Young Composers
- 01:46:00 – Turret Opera Details
- 01:50:20 – Working with Jonathan Coulton.
- 01:53:20 – Portal 2 OST Details
- 01:54:45 – TT eSPORTS Winner
- 01:54:30 – Conclusion
- Favourite item at Valve’s snack bar?
- Music lessons?
- Who at Valve has the sweatiest hands?
- 01:59:00 – Wrap-up, Thanks.
7 Comments
What are the chances of someone using a music editing program such as FL10-Ableton Live-Ableton Launch pad working for you in the near future? I Love music, I love it, and I don’t want a job that I hate when I get older as you see most of the time in this society. I’m learning to use programs such as this and was just wondering the chances of working for Valve? Or even you.
Thanks for the interview. Bay is like a GOD to me. I love that guy.
awesome interview! thanks
Added a download for the Exclusive First Draft of Portal 2 Intro, a few people asked for it.
Damn. I sent in like 15 music-nerd questions assuming maybe 1 of them would get answered, but it seems like I can find all of my questions in the show notes already. Thanks!
Podcast 17 is for the fans and listeners… 80% of all the questions asked were fan questions.
Damn. I sent in like 15 questions assuming maybe 1 of them would get answered, but it seems like I can find all of my questions in the show notes already. Thanks!