
Composer Winifred Phillips
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Winifred Phillips is a composer of music for entertainment media. The blog posts focuses on music, video games and the convergence of the two.
Composer Winifred Phillips
3w ago
By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow Hey there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a lecture this March at the Game Developers Conference 2025 about my Grammy-nominated score to Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord! “A Score for Wizardry: World-Building Through Music” will explore both the historical […]
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Composer Winifred Phillips
4M ago
By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow Welcome back! I’m game composer Winifred Phillips – my most recent game release is the original music of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord: the smash-hit 3D remake of the classic 1981 dungeon-crawler (listen and download my award-winning soundtrack for free). This is part four of my series of articles […]
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Composer Winifred Phillips
5M ago
By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow Hi there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips – my most recent game release is the music of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord: the smash-hit 3D remake of the classic 1981 dungeon-crawler (listen and download my award-winning soundtrack for free). Welcome to part three of my article series presenting […]
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Composer Winifred Phillips
6M ago
By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow Welcome back! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips – my latest game project is the award-winning music for the smash-hit 3D remake of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord! (Listen and download the award-winning soundtrack, and vote for the Wizardry soundtrack in the public voting of the World Soundtrack Awards.) […]
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Composer Winifred Phillips
8M ago
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Welcome! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips – my latest is the music for the bestselling remake of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (listen and download the award-winning soundtrack for free). Today I’m pleased to present the final installment of my three-part series based on my interview with Meena Shamaly, the host of the Game Show on ABC Classic (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Meena Shamaly brings all his knowledge as an accomplished composer, producer and performance artist into his role as i ..read more
Composer Winifred Phillips
9M ago
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Hey everybody! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips. Welcome to part two of my three-part article series based on my interview with Meena Shamaly, host of the popular Game Show program on ABC Classic (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Meena is a prolific performance artist, composer and producer, in addition to his role as the host of the Game Show, and I was delighted to be interviewed for his awesome series! An audio recording of the uncut interview is hosted right now on the ABC Classic web site.&nb ..read more
Composer Winifred Phillips
10M ago
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Hello there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and last November I was delighted to be featured on the popular Game Show program broadcast on ABC Classic (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The show that was broadcast on ABC Classic featured lots of my music from my video game repertoire, along with clips from a longer interview we recorded shortly before the broadcast. Game Show is hosted by Meena Shamaly, who is an accomplished performance poet, composer, and producer of arts workshops and poetry slams.&nb ..read more
Composer Winifred Phillips
1y ago
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Hello everyone! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and I’m delighted to share that I’ll be delivering a lecture this March in San Francisco during the Game Developers Conference — one of the top industry conferences of the year. My lecture is entitled “Dial Up the Diegetics: Musical Sound Effects,” and I was honored that GDC included it as a featured audio selection in the GDC 2024 Session Guide, and highlighted my participation as a GDC speaker this year by including me in the GDC 2024 Speaker Spotlight. My lect ..read more
Composer Winifred Phillips
1y ago
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Hey everybody! I’m video game music composer Winifred Phillips, author of the book A Composer’s Guide to Game Music. Since the publication of my book by the MIT Press, I’ve maintained a monthly series of articles designed to expand upon the content of that book and enable further exploration of related topics. Inspired by my more recent video game projects in popular franchises such as Jurassic World, Lineage, and Sackboy, these articles have delved into subjects ranging from interactivity, to music theory, to business and networking.
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Composer Winifred Phillips
1y ago
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Hello there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips. In March of 2023, I gave a lecture entitled “Chaos Theory: The Music of Jurassic World Primal Ops” during the Game Developers Conference 2023. This lecture was named one of the most popular presentations at GDC 2023, and is currently nominated for a Game Audio Network Guild Award for Best Game Audio Presentation. Every year, after I present at this popular yearly conference, I release the complete content of my lecture in a series of free articles. This is the ..read more