Brian Schmidt
Composer
Steve Ritchie...Knight 2000, which was acclaimed for having perhaps one of the best musical soundtracks ever for a pinball game (composed by himself, Brian Schmidt, and Dan Forden). It was also one of the first games to feature a "Wizard Mode", called "The... In this article: Black Knight, High Speed, World Poker Tour, Firepower, and Atari Games |
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Global warming controversy
...warming but differ on the amount, with one break-even point at 0.15 °C/decade, was made between software engineer David Evans and Brian Schmidt. Evans explained his reasons as a combination of the following: skepticism in global dimming as...
In this article: Global warming, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fossil fuel, Stephen McIntyre, Richard Lindzen, United States, Carbon, and Roger A. Pielke
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Kansas City Star | October 28, 2009
Iconic music gives 'Halo' its groove
...copies of the “Halo 2” soundtrack were sold. </p><p>O’Donnell is one of the biggest stars, according to Brian Schmidt, a game composer and consultant in Bellevue, Wash. </p><p> “He’s easily a John...
In this article: Marty O'Donnell, Bungie, Halo, Halo 2, John Williams, and Halo 3: ODST
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Brian Schmidt
Portions of his thesis were published in the Computer Music Journal in 1987. Schmidt left Microsoft in February 2008, and formed Brian Schmidt Studios, L.L.C., an independent consulting firm. He is also the creator of GameSoundCon...
In this article: Brian L. Schmidt, Microsoft, Northwestern University, Xbox, Computer Music Journal, NARC, Sega, Xbox 360, and Pixies
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Wikipedia | September 30, 2009
Dan Forden
...quite complex. Several songs that he composed for the Mortal Kombat 3 soundtrack were used in the precursor to South Park, ''Jesus vs. Santa ''. Black Knight 2000 (with Brian Schmidt and Steve Ritchie) with Jon Hey and Rich Karstens)
In this article: Easter egg, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mortal Kombat, Conservatory, Medieval Madness, and Black Knight
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Wikipedia | September 28, 2009
NARC (video game)
...Auto. Rock group Pixies recorded a cover of the theme song from the original arcade game, originally written by game music composer Brian Schmidt, and released it as a B-Side to their 1991 single, "Planet of Sound". They titled the cover...
In this article: NARC, Narcotic, Xbox, Pixies, Cannabis, Black Francis, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and ZX Spectrum
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Wikipedia | September 09, 2009
Crue Ball
...band Motley Crue and featured three Crue songs: "Dr. Feelgood ", "Live Wire " and "Home Sweet Home ". The game's soundtrack by Brian Schmidt features heavy metal-style music. The game's prototype name was Twisted Flipper. The Producer of...
In this article: Crue Ball, Motley Crue, Producer, Live Wire, Home Sweet Home, MTV, Mega Drive, and Electronic Arts
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The Seattle Times | December 28, 2008
Big-time movie, TV composers explore video games as a fresh musical frontier
...have to make that up in my head. It's an interesting challenge to write without any pictures, but fun." Following the action Brian Schmidt, a game composer in Bellevue, sums up the task by referencing a situation in the movie "The Truman...
In this article: Garry Schyman, Ken Levine, Steve Jablonsky, Danny Elfman, Sony Bend, Grammy, Gustav Mahler, Batman, Magnum, P.I, and Seattle
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San Jose Mercury News | December 15, 2008
Video game soundtracks getting bigger and better
...to work from, so I have to make that up in my head. It's an interesting challenge to write without any pictures, but fun." Brian Schmidt, a game composer in Bellevue, Wash., sums up the task by referencing a situation in the movie "The...
In this article: Garry Schyman, Steve Jablonsky, Resistance: Retribution, Gustav Mahler, Danny Elfman, Washington, Metal Gear Solid 4, Fable, and Harry Gregson-Williams
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Wikipedia | December 08, 2007
BSMT2000
The BSMT2000 is an audio DSP created by Brian Schmidt for use in various pinball and video games (notably, the Data East pinball games, as well as its successors, Sega Pinball and Stern Pinball ). Officially, its initials stood for "Brian...
In this article: MAME, WhiteStar, Data East, and Texas Instruments
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Brian L. Schmidt is a music composer for various video games and pinball games. Schmidt is also the creator of the BSMT2000 audio DSP, which is used in various pinball games and video arcade machines. Currently, he is the program manager of the Xbox Audio and Voice Technologies division at Microsoft.
Brian has undergraduate degrees in both Music and Computer Science as well as a Masters degree in Computer Applications in Music, all from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. Brian started in the industry in 1987 as an employee of Williams (WMS) writing music and music software for pinball machines. While at Williams, he worked on Black Knight 2000 with Ed Boon (who later went on to create the Mortal Kombat series) and several other pinball machines. At WMS he also wrote the music for the arcade game NARC. His main theme from NARC went on to be recorded by the Pixies. After two years at WMS, Brian left to be an independent consultant, during which time he wrote music and created sound effects for close to 120 video and arcade games and pinball machines including John Madden Football and the "Desert Strike" series. In 1998, Brian was recruited into Microsoft where he worked on DirectX before moving over to the Xbox team in late 1999. At Xbox, Brian was responsible for the overall audio system architecture; he also created the startup sound for the original Xbox. Brian continues in his role developing audio technologies such as XACT and was responsible for the audio architecture of the Xbox 360. Brian Serves on the Board of Directors of the Game Audio Network Guild (GANG), the advisory board of the Game Developers Conference and is a well known industry speaker and published author
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