GameSOUNDCon 2024

The MIDI Association

2 Days of Video Game Music, Sound, Dialogue and More

Game Music and Sound Design Conference

GameSoundCon 2024- October 29-30- Burbank Convention Center- Burbank, CA & Online

GameSoundCon 2024 is hybrid!

We attended GameSoundCon and got to catch up with composers, sound designers, dialogue specialists, researchers, educators and others who want to keep up with the cutting edge in video game sound, music, dialogue and technology.

Topics included:

Video Game Music Composition
Game Sound Design
Technology
Business/Career
Virtual/Mixed Reality Audio
Dialogue/Performance
Interactive Audio Research
Ludomusicology and the study of game music and sound
Tutorials
Game Music and Sound Design Education

The composers we tlaked to were very excited about the developments in MIDI 2.0 in particular the Orchestral Articulation Profile which will solve many problems with the way articulations are currently handled.

The MIDI Association and IASG Team at Game Sound Con

The MIDI Association was the booth the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) as Steve Horowitz, IASIG chair is also the executive director of the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program at SCFM.

Pictures above form left to right are Pat Scandalis and Austin Smith from the IASIG and George Sanger (The Fat Man).

George Alistair Sanger (The Fat Man) is often described as a “Legendary Game Audio Guru,” and has been creating music and other audio for games since Thin Ice for Intellivision in 1983.

The Fat Man hosted the annual Texas Interactive Music Conference and BBQ (Project Bar-B-Q), the computer/music industry’s most prestigious and influential conference. The IASIG is contemplating a reboot of Project BBQ perhaps even at a different location.

Most recently George was the Audio Director (and the first audio hire) at billion-dollar tech startup Magic Leap.