Designing Music NOW Podcast - Ep18 - Composer Guy Michelmore of Thinkspace

Welcome to the Designing Music NOW Podcast - Ep. 18 - where we interview Guy Michelmore, Emmy award-nominated composer and course director of ThinkSpace Education - home of the world’s only online master’s degrees in composing and orchestrating for film, games and TV. They are also launching the world's first online MFA for video game composition and sound design. ThinkSpace Education: http://thinkspaceeducation.com/ For more articles, podcasts, reviews and news about the craft of creating music for games and interactive media, check out www.designingmusicnow.com Track List Intro - 0:00 Guy's Background/ThinkSpace Education Background - 0:20 Work/Learn from Anywhere - 3:30 Industry Growing 10%/year - 4:25 ThinkSpace Program Offerings - 5:40 Game Audio Community Friendly and Helpful - 9:00 Challenges in Teaching Game Audio - 11:05 100% Retention Rate of Students at ThinkSpace - 13:50 Student Entry Requirement and Background - 15:00 Employment in Game Audio, No Gaurantees - 16:20 Success Stories - 19:11 Business Aspects Taught at ThinkSpace - 20:35 Recommend Internships with Established Composers? - 23:50 Balance of Technology and Artistic Techniques - 25:38 Specific Tools Taught, FMOD etc. - 29:00 DAWS - 31:20 Elias - 32:00 Tools are Always Changing - 33:95 Online Education Challenges - 36:30 Teaching Orchestration Online - 39:25 Sample Libraries 43:30 Difference Between Online and On the Ground Music Education, Collaboration - 45:25 Sound Design Program - 47:36 All Teaches at ThinkSpace are Working Composers and Sound Designers - 50:28 Pricing Models and Free Content - 51:53 Class Schedule, Start in September and January - 52:30 Conclusion: 54:25