Panel Discussion and Performance:
Playing the Game - Music for Interactive Entertainment

April 21, 2003 at the PONCHO Concert Hall, Kerry Hall, at Cornish College, Seattle

Created and produced by Gennady Filimonov, this event is sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy) and is hosted by Cornish College of the Arts and the Seattle Composer's Alliance. This event will promote music and composition in interactive video. Experts will be on-hand to discuss the ins-and-outs of the business and will give the audience an insider's perspective on the process.

Performances by the Odeon String Quartet (Lehmann Ensemble-in-Residence).

Moderator for the event is Hummie Mann, two-time Emmy Award-winning, Canadian composer/arranger.

Featured guest speakers include the cream of the crop in the gaming industry:

• Alistair Hirst - award-winning composer, Need for Speed series
• Ben Houge - award-winning composer, Arcanum
• Marty O'Donnell - award-winning composer, Halo
• Jeremy Soule - award-winning composer Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Scott Selfon - Xbox Audio Content Consultant and Manager on the MSN Creative Audio team, which focused on the sonification of Web content using interactive soundtracks.

Featured artists: Odeon String Quartet
Currently, the Odeon String Quartet is the Lehmann Ensemble-in-Residence at Cornish College of the Arts. This residency is made possible by a generous gift from Thelma Lehman. "Just a few seasons old, this young, vibrant group has made a Kronos-like commitment to 20th century music all over the artistic map - from serialism, evocations of folk and pop music from around the world, American classics and European neo-romanticism," writes music critic Gavin Borchert in the Seattle Weekly.

2003 Past Events