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everything you never wanted to know about brad derrick

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At the intersection of music nerds and gaming nerds...it's this nerd! Hello!

I'm just your every day musician and gamer who accidentally figured out how to do both for a living. After a youth (mis)spent indulging in those hobbies, I collected a couple of music degrees, including a masters in electronic composition ("How will this pay the bills?"), and landed my first gig at a game studio simply because I knew a little something about computer audio ("Oh...that's how").

Since then, I've spent over three decades writing music and leading audio teams on titles large (ESO: 25 million players, $2+ billion in revenue) and small (countless tiny / indie projects lost in the sands of time).

I've gotten to travel the world to work with orchestras and choirs, soloists and vocalists. I've gotten to burn the midnight oil on countless Dew-fueled DAW benders (my favorite pastime). And I've gotten to be an absolute control freak - having the luxury of undiluted and streamlined execution on a musical vision, carving out a niche producing interactive dynamic scores from "farm to table" - handling every aspect of the music from initial conception to final integration.

Now there's a level of artistic satisfaction well beyond simply writing a pretty little ditty. Instead, I get to create a living breathing musical entity, with the player as my real-time collaborator, shaping the score through their own actions, and in turn enriching their experience of some fantastic imaginary realm. Pretty bitchin', eh?

 

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