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Welcome to WillowTree Audioworks,
online home of award-winning composer Ian Dorsch.
June 28, 2010
March 29, 2010
- It's been a while since I
posted about Airborn! We've recently won 1st place for best art
in Phase 4 of Epic's Make
Something Unreal Contest, and are now in full swing on our
standalone UDK demo. We'll hopefully have some very exciting news
to reveal soon, but in the meantime here
is a new in-game track for your enjoyment. WARNING: it's possibly
the most cheerful little piece of music I've ever written.
February 22, 2010
- The GWJOST EP is ready
for download
in both wav and 320kbps mp3 formats. The EP is freely
downloadable, but if you would like to make a donation you are welcome
to do so via the Paypal link on the download page. As I've
mentioned, I am in full swing on a CD project, and donations will
primarily go toward production expenses. Regarding the content of
the EP: it's mostly blatant fan service for listeners of the Gamers
With Jobs podcasts over the years. All of the material was
written for either GWJ Radio or the GWJ Conference Call, and it's
appeared in one form or another on those podcasts. Much of it has
been available via my demos page, but this is the first time that the
extended version of the new Conference Call Theme will be made
available, and it's also the first time that I'm offering high quality
versions of these tracks. Because much of this material doesn't
make a lot of sense without context, I've included notes on each track
in the PDF liner notes included in the download.
January 13, 2010
- Happy new year!
Because you are awesome, I have a new Airborn
track to share with
you. Who loves you? Me, that's who. Also, I've
written a new theme song for my friends at the Gamers With
Jobs Conference Call podcast. The song debuts in the newest episode.
In the next week or two, I will have an extended, 3:00+ version
of the theme up for download, with some guest guitar work from my good
friend and former band mate, Richard Chambliss. Rather than
simply post the track to the demos page, I'm going to try something a
bit different and put up a link to donate whatever you'd like for
access to a high quality version of that track, and a few others from
my archives. It will be an experiment. I'm testing the
waters for a possible CD release later in the year, and the results of
this sort of mini digital EP pseudo release will both help fund the CD
project, and inform the way I handle the CD release. At any rate,
look for that to pop up before the end of the month.
October 2, 2009
- So that was summer,
huh? Man, that was fast. Ah well, time for an update!
There's lots to report. In the Escapist department, we've
recently premiered a new show, Escapist
News Network. It's a humorous look at gaming news from the
Unskippable/LoadingReadRun crew. The theme music is way
over-the-top action news kind of stuff, and it was a lot of fun to put
together. Also, I'm going to be interviewed for The Escapist
Listening Lounge on All Games Radio.
Check out the show next Tuesday at 8:30 pm EST.
- Airborn has been released
into the wild, and entered into Epic's Make Something Unreal
Contest. It's basically a proof of concept, so there's not much
in the way of gameplay yet, but it's worth taking for a spin just to
appreciate the gorgeous artwork and atmosphere. Check out a brief
teaser trailer featuring some of my in-game music here.
- Love's open alpha is up and
running. The audio engine is not yet in place, so you won't hear
any of my music in there, but it's fantastic to see Eskil's world in
action.
- And finally, I've been
getting a lot of email requests for guitar tab for the Zero Punctuation
theme. As pleased as I am that people want to learn it, and as
much as I would love to provide such a thing, I simply don't have the
time to transcribe those guitar parts. However, what I can do is post a series of videos
demonstrating how to play the various parts of the song. I'm
making plans to hit the rhythm guitar stuff some time in the next
couple of weeks. Hopefully that will be helpful for you guys.
July 21, 2009
- I am very pleased to
announce the Escapist
Music Library. All of my Escapist themes are now available
there for free download, including Zero Punctuation, Doomsday Arcade
and The Escapist Show. Enjoy!
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