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Joon Media ep 7 Adventure Time, Erik Desiderio and Steve Pardo from Harmonix

Emily Reese interviews composer Erik Desiderio about his music for Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games, the virtual reality game from the beloved TV show. Also, Steve Pardo talks about his music for indie games like Apple's new Beat Sports, and what it's like working on games at Harmonix like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Support Emily on Patreon.

Joon Media ep 6 Dynamedion, Adam Gubman

Emily Reese interviews Pierre Langer, Tilmann Silescu, and Axel Rohrbach from Dynamedion. The three are responsible for making the creature sound effects in Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. And composer Adam Gubman talks about what it's like to make a career change in game audio. Support Emily on Patreon.

Joon Media ep 5 David Housden Volume, Thomas Was Alone_Susan Arendt, Take This

Emily Reese interviews composer David Housden about his music for Mike Bithell's new game, Volume, and talks about scoring Mike's first game, Thomas Was Alone. Also, Susan Arendt talks about the charity she cofounded to combat mental illness in the gaming community, Take This. Support Emily's work on Patreon.

Joon Media ep 4 Brad Derrick Elder Scrolls Online and OCRemix

Emily Reese interviews composer Brad Derrick about his music for Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, learns about eSports from IGN's Kevin Knocke, and checks in with Larry Oji from OCRemix about some of his favorite recent video game music remixes. Support Emily on Patreon.

Joon Media ep 3 Garry Schyman Destroy All Humans

Emily Reese interviews Garry Schyman about the classic series, Destroy All Humans, and talks to developer Kathie Flood about her gorgeous underwater exploration game, Infinite SCUBA. Support Emily on Patreon.

Minisode 002 from Joon Media

Woooo hoooo! Here's Minisode 002, to give you a taste of what the full episode sounds like. Enjoy highlights from Episode 002 including composer Stephen Baysted, podcaster Charlie McCarron and Kirk Hamilton, who's the Features Editor at http://Kotaku.com.

Thank you for coming to visit!

Emily, Sam and June

Minisode 001 from Joon Media

If you're curious what our show sounds like, listen to Minisode 001! 

It features highlights from actors Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie, composer Jason Graves and podcasters the Super Marcato Bros.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily, Sam & June

Joon Media ep 2 Stephen Baysted, Kirk Hamilton, Charlie McCarron

Emily Reese interviews composer Stephen Baysted about Project CARS, checks in with Kirk Hamilton from Kotaku.com, and chats with Charlie McCarron about his podcast, Composer Quest. Support Emily on Patreon.

EPISODE 001: Ellen McLain, John Patrick Lowrie, Jason Graves, Super Marcato Bros., Ben Reeves

Hi, welcome, howdy, thanks for checking out Episode 1 of the show with no name yet!! More on that later.

I’m Emily Reese, and I’m happy you’re along for the ride! Sam Keenan and I started a podcast together at Minnesota Public Radio called Top Score. We loved working on that show and miss it very much!

Our new show gives you an opportunity to hear from nearly anyone you could possibly imagine in the video game industry. We love video game music, so you’ll hear a lot of that too. Do you have a favorite cosplayer? We’ll get ‘em on! You’ll hear from composers, LPers, audio directors, artists, musicians, journalists, podcasters, actors, and more!

This first episode is ridiculously fabulous, if we do say so ourselves.

The first time I ever interviewed Jason Graves, it was early in 2011. He was already working on the music for Until Dawn around that time, although I didn’t know that yet. Four years and several interviews and panels later, Jason and I got to talk about his music for the game. Until Dawn is a survival horror game, way way way too scary for me to play, although I’m not ruling it out. Jason and I have been down this road before - I didn’t play any of the Dead Space games either. I encourage you, if you shy away from the horror genre, to watch the opening moments of Until Dawn. You’ll get an incredible sense of what it must be like to play it, without soiling yourself from actually playing it.

John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen McLain are voice actors and musicians. They’ve been married for about 29 years, and they’re a hoot. They’re best-known in gaming for their work in several Valve titles, like the Portal series, Left 4 Dead, Half-Life 2, and Team Fortress 2. Ellen's projects include the award-winning film Winning Dad. She’s in LEGO Dimensions, which comes out later this month (Sept. 27). John wrote a sci-fi novel called Dancing With Eternity and he’s the voice of Sherlock Holmes in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an audio book series of all 60 in the set by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These two are amazing!

You can learn more about Karl and Will Brueggemann, and hear their original music and check out their Super Marcato Bros. podcast here!

Ben Reeves, Senior Editor for Game Informer, went to PAX Prime in Seattle this past weekend. He stopped by to tell us about his experience at the biggest fan-convention in video games, and did you know he wrote a book?? Check it out, it’s called Kill Screen.