Ranked #1
Leslie Ann Jones is a Jedi of sound engineers
Leslie Ann Jones is a Jedi of sound engineers
The director of music recording and scoring at Skywalker Sound, Leslie Ann Jones oversees all sound production in the fa... Read more
18 Jun 2015
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15mins
Ranked #2
Bear McCreary on Top Score
Bear McCreary on Top Score
Composer Bear McCreary is our guest on Top Score this week from Classical MPR. I first became interested in his music th... Read more
19 Oct 2011
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35mins
Ranked #3
Creating powerful and engaging game soundtracks
Creating powerful and engaging game soundtracks
Composer, audio engineer and voice actor Alexander Brandon joins Emily Reese on this week's Top Score to talk about crea... Read more
9 Apr 2015
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19mins
Ranked #4
Curtis Schweitzer and Starbound on Top Score
Curtis Schweitzer and Starbound on Top Score
Composer Curtis Schweitzer wrote unusually long pieces of music for his soundtrack to the game Starbound. He talks to Em... Read more
8 May 2014
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4mins
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Ranked #5
Top Score Launches Season 2 with Halo Composer Martin O'Donnell
Top Score Launches Season 2 with Halo Composer Martin O'Donnell
Veteran video game composer Martin O'Donnell talks about writing scores for ten years of Halo on the first episode of se... Read more
6 Sep 2011
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35mins
Ranked #6
Jesper Kyd at Minnesota Public Radio Headquarters
Jesper Kyd at Minnesota Public Radio Headquarters
Composer Jesper Kyd visited MPR headquarters in November for Top Score's first live event. Check out the audio and video... Read more
31 Jan 2012
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46mins
Ranked #7
Top Score: Singer Lisbeth Scott's rising note
Top Score: Singer Lisbeth Scott's rising note
Several years ago, a five-minute conversation took Lisbeth Scott from being a part-time singer and musician in a dance s... Read more
2 Oct 2014
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23mins
Ranked #8
Comparing Baroque Music to Early Video Game Music
Comparing Baroque Music to Early Video Game Music
Writer Ricky O'Bannon talks about counterpoint in the context of video game music.
27 Mar 2014
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4mins
Ranked #9
Jeremy Soule and Guild Wars 2 on Top Score
Jeremy Soule and Guild Wars 2 on Top Score
This introduction to the music of Guild Wars 2 , written by Jeremy Soule, also illustrates how you can learn about othe... Read more
14 Nov 2013
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4mins
Ranked #10
Top Score: Super Marcato Brothers
Top Score: Super Marcato Brothers
Karl and Will Brueggemann, known as the Super Marcato Brothers, live and breathe retro video games. They compose origina... Read more
30 Oct 2014
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17mins
Ranked #11
Christophe Heral and Billy Martin Talk Rayman Legends on Top Score
Christophe Heral and Billy Martin Talk Rayman Legends on Top Score
Christophe Heral and Billy Martin collaborated on their second Rayman game: Rayman Legends.
6 Mar 2014
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4mins
Ranked #12
Peter McConnell and Broken Age on Top Score
Peter McConnell and Broken Age on Top Score
Peter McConnell teamed up with Tim Schafer and Double Fine Studios for a gem of a score for "Broken Age". McConnell talk... Read more
13 Feb 2014
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4mins
Ranked #13
Ari Pulkkinen and Angry Birds on Top Score
Ari Pulkkinen and Angry Birds on Top Score
Finnish composer Ari Pulkkinen was already an established composer in the gaming industry when he wrote the theme for An... Read more
20 Feb 2014
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4mins
Ranked #14
Top Score: A composer known as 'Disasterpeace'
Top Score: A composer known as 'Disasterpeace'
Back in 2012, video game media outlets were ablaze with news about FEZ . This press helped launch the career of the gam... Read more
9 Oct 2014
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25mins
Ranked #15
Top Score: Composer Paul Ruskay
Top Score: Composer Paul Ruskay
On this week's Top Score, Emily Reese talks with composer Paul Ruskay, who created the soundtrack for 'Homeworld Remaste... Read more
28 May 2015
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24mins
Ranked #16
Olivier Deriviere Scores Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry
Olivier Deriviere Scores Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry
Composer Olivier Derivière blended his own original music with traditional Haitian music for the score to Assassin's Cre... Read more
22 May 2014
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4mins
Ranked #17
Greg Edmonson and Uncharted 3 on Top Score
Greg Edmonson and Uncharted 3 on Top Score
Greg Edmonson talks about his music for the Uncharted trilogy on Top Score from Classical Minnesota Public Radio.
17 Nov 2011
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33mins
Ranked #18
Composing music in full color
Composing music in full color
Composer Daniel Sadowski possesses that rare ability to see music in color, so when he was asked to compose music for th... Read more
14 May 2015
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16mins
Ranked #19
Cellist Tina Guo on Top Score
Cellist Tina Guo on Top Score
Cellist Tina Guo is best known for shredding on her electric cello. But the lonely, meditative sonority of a video game ... Read more
11 Sep 2014
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4mins
Ranked #20
Top Score: Composer Andrew Aversa
Top Score: Composer Andrew Aversa
Hard-working composer Andrew Aversa shares his various experiences writing music for video games, and he also invites as... Read more
23 Oct 2014
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22mins
