 11.10.09 I wrote an article for the website Shockwave-sound.com on how to succesfully complete a first paid composition project. It's written for composers who have the necessary musical skills, but have never had to deal with a real client before. It's funny, because this article also is my first paid writing project, so I guess I'm a real published author now. I hope this one is the first of many, as I enjoyed doing it very much. 11.02.09 Here's a gameplay clip from the THQ video game "Marvel Super Hero Squad" (via GameSpot), featuring a piece of music I composed for it called "City Battle". You can listen to it in its entirety in the music player in the Portfolio section of this website, along with another piece from the same game. Also, EA has graciously allowed me to show in my demo reel a few tracks I wrote for their video games "Littlest Pet Shop" and "Littlest Pet Shop Friends". They can also be found in the Portfolio section of this website. Enjoy!  10.27.09 Another game release day. Today it's EA's "Nerf N-Strike Elite", for which I designed a lot of sound effects. This one is out for the Wii only, and it comes with a real Nerf gun that shoots foam darts when you switch the Wiimote for a dart cartridge.This game is the sequel to last year's bestseller "Nerf N-Strike", another game I worked for, doing sound design and additional music. This was the last project I did with Audio Director / Composer Chance Thomas at EA's Salt Lake City studio, although we worked together again on Ubisoft's "James Cameron's AVATAR: The Game", which comes out on December 1st for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP and the PC. On other news, I'm still composing music for an upcoming game from EA and also doing some additional sound design for the same title. As usual, I can't mention its name, but I will as soon as the official press release is made by the studio. 10.20.09 Today's a very exciting day! Not only has this new website launched, but also two games I worked on are being released on this very same date. The games are "Littlest Pet Shop Friends" from EA, for which I designed sounds and composed additional music, and "Marvel Super Hero Squad" from THQ, on which I was an additional composer as well.
Also, I uploaded four new music pieces to the new Portfolio section. They are called "City Adventure", "City Battle", "The Voyage Begins" and "The Grand Party". Make sure to explore the rest of the website as well - lots of new cool things. Enjoy! 10.03.09 I've just completed composing all the music for an upcoming video game for EA and started writing music for another one, also for EA. I expect both of them will be announced soon. This Fall is shaping up to be extremely busy. On a different note, this website will get revamped in the next couple of months. The current layout is a few years old and it's beginning to show its age, especially with the amount of content that it has accumulated over time. The new one will be more fun and engaging, while still maintaining all the information available for those with the time and patience to go over it.  09.15.09 I'm currently writing music for a new unannounced video game for EA. Also, the 'huge game' that I mentioned a couple of months ago has been announced by its developer, Ubisoft. It's "James Cameron's AVATAR: The Game", and I'm very proud to have contributed to it, as it's looking to be one of the biggest video games ever made.By the way, here are the release dates for the games I've worked on recently: "Littlest Pet Shop Friends" (EA) - October 20th "Marvel Super Hero Squad" (THQ) - October 20th "NERF 2: N-Strike Elite" (EA) - October 26th "James Cameron's AVATAR: The Game" (Ubisoft) - November 24th Also, several Rock Band tracks I've been working on with the guys at RockGamer Studios will be released later this year through Xbox LIVE and the Rock Band Network. They include "Creepy Doll" by Jonathan Coulton, "White Heat" by Cetan Clawson and "Arigato" by Gandhi. 08.12.09 I recently partnered with RockGamer Studios, a company that authors tracks for the insanely popular game Rock Band. Our first projects are tracks for Costarican band Gandhi and for guitar wizard Cetan Clawson, and they will be available for purchase from the Rock Band online store and from Xbox LIVE at the end of the year. Just finished the remaining mixes for HBO series "Lingerie", which is comprised of 13-episodes and is currently airing on Cinemax HD. This looks to be my last audio post project for television, as my focus is now set on audio and music for video games almost exclusively. 07.15.09 Just landed an unreal gig doing music editing for a huge video game. And by huge, I mean stupid huge. As usual, I'm still not allowed to say what it is, but suffice to say it is something of titanic proportions. Because of scheduling requirements, I'm working the graveyard shift on it, from roughly 1 am to 9 am, but it's such fun that I don't mind. One project I'm now at liberty to mention is the other game I'm doing for EA, "Nerf 2: N-Strike Elite", which is the sequel to 2008's "Nerf N-Strike", an extremely commercially successful game I also worked on doing sound design. "Nerf 2" will hit stores in October. And for those of you who read spanish, popular Costarican news site Vuelta En U has published a really nice interview with yours truly. Big thanks to editor-in-chief Victor Fernandez for his attention to detail and good vibes. 06.24.09 I wrote two music pieces for THQ's upcoming video game "Marvel Super Hero Squad", under the direction of audio director and composer Mick Gordon from Game Audio Australia. The game will be out on October 20th and will be released on the Wii, DS, PSP and PS2. EA has officially announced one of the games I'm working on, "Littlest Pet Shop Friends", to be released in the Fall. It is the follow-up to last year's smash hit "Littlest Pet Shop", which has sold more than 2 million copies so far. "Littlest Pet Shop Friends" will be available on the Wii, DS and PC. On the TV side of things, I am now past the halfway point in the audio post production of "Lingerie", the new HBO late-night series. I will have completed all the sound mixes by late July or early August. The first episodes will be airing on Cinemax HD at the beginning of July. I have added a new music cue to the Music Composition Demos in the Portfolio section of the website. It's called "Floored", and it was originally written for the "Fast & Furious" iPhone video game, but it didn't make it in the end. 04.27.09 In addition to the two EA games I'm designing sound for, I'm also writing a few music cues for another major video game and starting to mix a TV series for HBO this week. So, I'm super busy and getting a bit exhausted, but I'm grateful. I can't say anything about the game which I'm writing music for (no surprise there), but the TV series is called "Lingerie", and it's a 13-episode late-night erotic drama for cable. On the music news front, I just got nominated for Composer Of The Year in the Progressive Rock category at the 2009 ACAM Awards, for my work on my album "Giant Robots And Sunsets". ACAM is the Association of Composers and Lyricists of Costa Rica, the equivalent of ASCAP or BMI in the United States. "Giant Robots And Sunsets" is available from cdbaby.com, but it also will be distributed in Costa Rica by Baula Music in the next few weeks. 03.22.09 I'm currently working on two new video games for EA Salt Lake, once more under the direction of Chance Thomas. These will be my third and fourth games for developer Electronic Arts, after the resounding successes of "Littlest Pet Shop" and "Nerf N-Strike". And once again, I can't say anything else about them due to non-disclosure agreements, but will post more information as soon as it's officially released by EA. I'm almost done with my last preparations for GDC'09, the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco next week, where the whole video game industry meets every year. I already have my four-day schedule in place, with tons of lectures, meetings, award ceremonies and industry parties - very cool stuff. 02.17.09 I've completed the re-recording mix for "Manson", a feature-length docudrama produced by Cineflix, in association with The History Channel in the U.S., Five in the U.K and Canal D in Canada. It tells the story of Charles Manson and how he turned his community of hippies called 'The Family' into murderers. It includes an in-depth account by their getaway driver, Linda Kasabian, of the infamous Tate/LaBianca killings in 1969. There is a new track called "One More Hero" in the Music Composition Demos in the Portfolio section of the website. This one is another action cue, and it combines my Heavy Metal influences with a symphonic treatment. 01.02.09 Some exciting news to start the year with a bang: EA and Hasbro have announced that three of the videogames they released in the Fall have reached a combined sales total of 2 million copies. Two of those games are "Nerf N-Strike" and "Littlest Pet Shop", which I worked on, doing sound design and additional music composing. Here is an article on the topic, from renowned online game news publication Gamasutra. This is some great news for me personally, as I hope it will give me a bit of presence in the game audio field, especially for the upcoming Game Developers Conference in March. I'm extremely grateful to EA Salt Lake's audio director Chance Thomas for the opportunity to be a part of the audio team on those projects. |
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