SCL Online Seminar: Game Changers Series: THE MUSIC OF MOBILE GAMING

WITH

Composers

JEFF BROADBENT

NAINITA DESAI

MIKOLAI STROINSKI

MODERATED BY

GARRY SCHYMAN

Composer, SCL Board Member

YouTube Live Stream

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

12:00-1:00pm (PT) // 2:00-3:00pm (CT) // 3:00-4:00pm (ET)

Step into the captivating world of mobile gaming music with our expert panel. In this illuminating session, industry-leading composers and sound designers explore the art of creating immersive musical experiences for mobile games. Uncover the secrets behind crafting dynamic soundscapes that adapt seamlessly to gameplay, enhancing engagement and emotional depth. From catchy melodies, to ambient tones that heighten tension, join us to unravel interplay between music and mobile gaming. 

Jeff Broadbent is a composer whose passion for music has been heard around the world in numerous video games, films, television programs, and trailers. His music has received both critical and commercial success, underscoring a British Academy Award and multiple Hollywood Music In Media Award-winning projects grossing billions of dollars worldwide. Jeff's compositions range from impactful sonic aggression to stirring and sublime emotion. His music features a rich stylistic blend of lush orchestrations, modern sound-design manipulations, cutting-edge electronics, and emotional solo instruments. By creative vision and technical prowess, his scores connect the audience with the mediums of film, television, and video games, through cinematic scoring fused with sonic artistry.

Broadbent's repertoire includes scores composed for some of the world's biggest video game franchises including Assassin's Creed, Call Of Duty, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, League Of Legends, Wild Rift, Apex Legends, Avatar, Transformers, Marvel, Monster Hunter, Magic The Gathering, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Lego, and Planetside 2. Recently Jeff composed music for Call Of Duty Mobile, which became the largest mobile game launch in history. The main theme was recorded by the Northwest Sinfonia, and the score was a finalist in the Hollywood Music In Media Awards, in addition to winning multiple Google Play awards. Jeff's musical diversity is evident in Sony Online's Planetside 2, in which he fused elements of orchestra, rock, and electronic genres, winning him a Hollywood Music In Media Award for Best Video Game Score and a Global Music Award of Merit. Jeff's ambient sound-design inspired score for Ubisoft's I Am Alive resulted in rave press reviews, an Outstanding Production Winner Award (Game Music Online), and an additional Hollywood Music In Media Award nomination. Jeff was commissioned to create a new main theme for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Identity, which resulted in a Hollywood Music In Media award. Jeff's music has been featured in major film trailers including Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, X-men: Days Of Future Past, and The Lazarus Effect. These emotionally intense soundtracks blend modern sonic design and artistic sensibilities to create deeply unique experiences. Broadbent's music has been featured in prime-time television shows and specials including The Curse Of Oak Island and Marvel: Assembling A Universe, as well as promos for leading television series including Marvel: Agents Of Shield, NCIS, Hawaii Five-o, Elementary, Scorpion, and Blue Bloods. Jeff's music has been used in music videos and commercials.

Jeff has won six Hollywood Music In Media Awards, a Game Audio Network Guild Award, seven Global Music Awards, a Telly Award, two ASCAP Plus Awards, and has been a finalist for the NAVGTR, Game Music Online, Radio Rivendell, and Soundtrack Geek awards. He is also a voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). Broadbent has recorded music with orchestras and musicians in Los Angeles, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Prague, Budapest, and Shanghai. Jeff holds a master's degree in music composition, in addition to studying film and video game scoring at UCLA under such luminaries as Robert Drasnin (Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone) and Thom Sharp (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid). As a guest conductor for the hit video game concert team Video Games Live, Jeff performed with orchestra, choir, and soloists in a sold-out venue at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. He is a multi-instrumentalist that plays piano, guitar, guitarviol, drums, bass, saxophone, world percussion, synthesizer programming, modern musical sound design, and more.

Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer having won an Emmy, a Royal Television Society Award, and Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack Academy Awards. A double BIFA and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the Year 2019, Nainita was described by Empire magazine as one of the top 5 composers to watch for 2022 who also won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology 2022.

She has recently garnered MPSE Golden Reel, ASCAP, SCL, GANG, and Develop nominations for her score for the acclaimed video game Immortality. Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar, and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include the hit Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, exec produced by Oscar winner Jimmy Chinn, for which her score earned Primetime Emmy, HMMA, and ASCAP Composer Choice nominations. Current projects include Oscar-winning John Battsek’s feature The Deepest Breath (A24, Netflix) which World Premiered at Sundance 2023. Desai’s other credits include Oscar 2020 nominated and BAFTA & Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama and Sundance-winning The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Recent projects include BBC1 action thriller series Crossfire, SKY comedy-drama series Funny Woman (Gemma Arterton), Bafta-nominated American Murder, landmark natural history series Predators for Sky/Netflix, Interactive film/video game Telling Lies, (Annapurna Interactive) and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise for Activision. Upcoming projects include a major live-action fantasy series for Disney+, landmark natural history series Earthsounds for Apple TV+, crime drama show The Tower (Mammoth Screen / ITV) as well as premium shows for James Cameron / Nat Geo, and a video game for EA Originals.

Following a degree in Maths and studying sound for film at the NFTS in the UK, Nainita began her career as a sound designer on feature films for directors including Werner Herzog and Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as assistant music engineering for Peter Gabriel. Nainita moves seamlessly between working with orchestras, to scores utilizing her collection of custom-made instruments, incorporating electronics, found sound, and experimental sound design which has informed her experimental, deeply immersive approach. She is also an elected senate member of the Ivor’s Academy and sits on the BAFTA Film Committee and AMPAS Intl Events Committee.

Mikolai Stroinski is a multi-award-winning composer. He was born in Kenya, raised in Poland, and lives and writes music in Los Angeles. Magna cum laude graduate of Karol Szymanowski Music Academy and summa cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music (Outstanding Achievement in Film Scoring), Mikolai has scored and composed music for TV programs on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Discovery Channel, History Channel, HBO, SyFy Channel, and his work is broadcast worldwide. His recent TV projects include the HBO production Bez Tajemnic (In Treatment), a series directed by Agnieszka Holland (director of The Killing and House of Cards) as well as Paradoks and Zbrodnia, both series produced by Oscar-winning Opus Film, the Golden Globe nominated production house (for the film Ida).

In addition to his film and TV music, Mikolai has expanded to the gaming industry, scoring music for major titles such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine (CDPR), Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (CDPR), League of Legends (Riot Games), Age Of Empires 4 (Relic Entertainment/Microsoft), and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), receiving critical and commercial acclaim worldwide. Ethan Carter won Best Audio at the 14th Annual Game Developer Choice Awards and a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition at the 18th Annual DICE Awards.

Most recently, Mikolai scored the massively multiplayer online action RPG Diablo Immortal (Blizzard Entertainment/NetEase) and Metamorphosis (Ovid Works), a surreal interactive adventure inspired by the Expressionist writings of Frank Kafka, receiving the Society of Composers and Lyricists’ Award for Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media. Currently, Mikolai is scoring the dark fantasy, Witchfire (The Astronauts).

*** IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ ***

FREE for current SCL members (click HERE to check membership status).

Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Tuesday, September 12 , 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.