Here's the trailer, although Miss Madz is not yet old enough to view it; it's rated 18!
And here's the complete, unedited track.
The Dublin International Game Music Festival
The iDIG Music Fest - Click on the image to go to our website!
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Miss Madz Voice on Assassin's Creed 3 Trailer
The Assassin's Creed 3 - Independence, trailer just came out and it features a little thing I exec produced a couple of years ago with my beautiful - then ten-year-old - step-daughter singing "Amazing Grace". My SJB, composer/producer Craig Stuart Garfinkle wrote the beautiful string accompaniment and produced the track.
Here's the trailer, although Miss Madz is not yet old enough to view it; it's rated 18!
And here's the complete, unedited track.
Here's the trailer, although Miss Madz is not yet old enough to view it; it's rated 18!
And here's the complete, unedited track.
Tonight - SOTG#2 in Houston
Last night I met Sean from the Houston chapter of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. He told me that they raise money to save childrens lives by holding marathon gaming sessions. Sean also gave me a keyring cast from the tiny hand of one of the preemie babies they've saved - it went straight to my heart.
Tonight on stage I'm going to wear their pin on my jacket. Thank you to Sean and the brave individuals who work for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Also, thanks to those Legend of Zelda fans who've taken part in gaming marathons that have raised so much money for children.
Here's to Gamers changing the world...
Tonight on stage I'm going to wear their pin on my jacket. Thank you to Sean and the brave individuals who work for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Also, thanks to those Legend of Zelda fans who've taken part in gaming marathons that have raised so much money for children.
Here's to Gamers changing the world...
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| Children's Miracle Network Hospitals balloon pin |
Posted with BlogsyLast Night - Symphony of the Goddesses in Houston
We had such a great time on stage last night with a fantastic Houston audience throwing energy at us to put in to our performance. Zelda fans make such a fantastically appreciative audience. I LOVE seeing entire families coming to see the show together. So many parents have told us how amazed they are that their kids want to go to the symphony and so many grown-up Zelda fans tell us that SOTG is their first time to experience the magic of a live orchestra. Thanks to The Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the staff at Jones Hall for treating us so well especially at the meet-and-greet with fans after the show.
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| Jeron and I with Majora's Masks! Amazing fan creations. |
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| with Jordin and her triforce t-shirt |
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| With Gabriel |
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| with Brian and his fab shirt |
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Radio Interview for SOTG
If Socrates Played Trumpet...
Out and about in Houston, Texas I heard a soulful and solitary trumpet reverberating off the glass and steel skyscrapers. The sound led me to "Pops" and his friend Reginald. Pops told me he comes to Main St. every day because his "horn" is too loud for his neighborhood and he just needs to play. I sat down with the guys for a while and talked musical philosophy. We all agreed that it's a musicians duty, nay, responsibility to play; that their gift belongs not to them but to all who hear them.
This is a belief I carry with me on stage every time I walk out there.
You never know who really needs you in those moments. Which member of your audience is grieving or lonely or despondant; which have traveled from violence-torn cities (some Mexican friends I met in Austin who came from the heart/den of the drug cartels); who has returned from war and needs their belief in humanity restored so as to live a normal life (a vet I met in Austin who told me he was sorry to have missed the show in Dallas - beacause he was in IRAQ!).
It is our job to serve our audience... humbly.
Pops, Reginald and I agreed that we were meant to meet today. I needed my faith in humanity restored and in his reaching out with his soul through his instrument, I found real human beauty again.
Also: I loved that he played with a lit cigarette and told me that he'd been playing the horn through fifty years and lost his four front teeth to it! And... Reginald told me I was "One Foxy Lady", which made my day especially since this Irish cailín's only experience of such wildlife would be either in the woods across from our house in Kilconnell or a Jimi Hendrix song.
Thank God for character. Here's presenting "Pops" and his orchestra of one:
This is a belief I carry with me on stage every time I walk out there.
You never know who really needs you in those moments. Which member of your audience is grieving or lonely or despondant; which have traveled from violence-torn cities (some Mexican friends I met in Austin who came from the heart/den of the drug cartels); who has returned from war and needs their belief in humanity restored so as to live a normal life (a vet I met in Austin who told me he was sorry to have missed the show in Dallas - beacause he was in IRAQ!).
It is our job to serve our audience... humbly.
Pops, Reginald and I agreed that we were meant to meet today. I needed my faith in humanity restored and in his reaching out with his soul through his instrument, I found real human beauty again.
Also: I loved that he played with a lit cigarette and told me that he'd been playing the horn through fifty years and lost his four front teeth to it! And... Reginald told me I was "One Foxy Lady", which made my day especially since this Irish cailín's only experience of such wildlife would be either in the woods across from our house in Kilconnell or a Jimi Hendrix song.
Thank God for character. Here's presenting "Pops" and his orchestra of one:
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Fireworks in Houston
Happy "Fourth" America.
I'm in Houston Texas on the Fourth of July watching the fireworks as backdrop to beautiful Jones Hall, home to the Houston Symphony Orchestra. I'm looking forward to meeting the orchestra tomorrow and hoping beyond all hope that at least a couple of them will show up in cowboy boots and maybe, just maybe... a space-suit? Right, so the narrow-mindedness of that comment practically wills someone in the orchestra to give me a damned impersonation of that damned leprechaun in the "Lucky Charms" advert (FACT: they don't allow those things come to come through customs in Ireland for fear of a national revolt; "revolt" and revulsion being the projected national sentiment).
Anyway, I absolutely love the Houston Symphony's recording of Stravinsky's Le Baisir de la Fée with conductor Hans Graf (particularly beautiful cello solos deserve a mention). God, that piece sounds like Tchaikovsky on some very interesting non-prescription drugs... In fact, it's sounds like the Nut finally Cracked...
Oh dear... a pun.
Anyway, here's Jones Hall, a fine example of indigenous American architecture (especially with the Fourt of July fireworks in the background). It looks like an alien civilization is about to land their ship on the stage (Where's Bill Pulman when you need him?):
So... yesterday I solicited the help of stylist Nikki Holmes in Santa Monica to create some DRAMATIC make-up looks for The Symphony of the Goddesses (For God's sake Lenny Bernstein wore A CAPE on stage and what's a little eye-makeup compared to A CAPE! Ok, so he was a bit of a superhero, we'll give 'im that). I showed her some pictures of VG heroines and of courses the bould Link and his constant conspirator, Princess Zelda. The result turned out a little more "Wicked" than we had intended but here it is:
I'm in Houston Texas on the Fourth of July watching the fireworks as backdrop to beautiful Jones Hall, home to the Houston Symphony Orchestra. I'm looking forward to meeting the orchestra tomorrow and hoping beyond all hope that at least a couple of them will show up in cowboy boots and maybe, just maybe... a space-suit? Right, so the narrow-mindedness of that comment practically wills someone in the orchestra to give me a damned impersonation of that damned leprechaun in the "Lucky Charms" advert (FACT: they don't allow those things come to come through customs in Ireland for fear of a national revolt; "revolt" and revulsion being the projected national sentiment).
Oh dear... a pun.
Anyway, here's Jones Hall, a fine example of indigenous American architecture (especially with the Fourt of July fireworks in the background). It looks like an alien civilization is about to land their ship on the stage (Where's Bill Pulman when you need him?):
So... yesterday I solicited the help of stylist Nikki Holmes in Santa Monica to create some DRAMATIC make-up looks for The Symphony of the Goddesses (For God's sake Lenny Bernstein wore A CAPE on stage and what's a little eye-makeup compared to A CAPE! Ok, so he was a bit of a superhero, we'll give 'im that). I showed her some pictures of VG heroines and of courses the bould Link and his constant conspirator, Princess Zelda. The result turned out a little more "Wicked" than we had intended but here it is:
Ok, was denkst Du? Sure, the blue has got to go in favor of green... for Link and for... IRELAND... but that's a tad un-patriotic in my adopted country considering the day that's in it.
Shur I thought a green card was something the yanks just gave a person as a prize just for the grand honor of being Irish... we're "magically delicious" you know.
Deee-fyy-ing Graaaaavittteeeeeeee
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