Slot Machine Composing
Composer Quest: A Songwriting and Music Composition Podcast
English - October 28, 2015 20:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsMusic Arts Performing Arts music composition composing music theory composition songwriting songwriting podcast music composition podcast songwriter music writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Reel spins, rollups, symbols, celebrations, underscores - they're all different sound ingredients that go into a slot machine. In this episode of Composer Quest, I interview three guys in the sound department at High 5 Games about their unique challenge of making music for casino slots. We talk about the composition techniques they use to hook players into these elaborate slot machine story worlds. I also ask them how they feel about using their musical skills to get people to throw down money and press that button again "like a monkey looking for that frickin' shot of espresso," as Aldo describes it. It's a fun and quirky interview, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.