Cris Velasco and Brian D’Oliveira Score Resident Evil 7

Cris Velasco and Brian D’Oliveira score the next game in the Resident Evil series, ‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’, with the main theme song written by another SMA composer, Michael Levine. The game delivers intimate horror with a tightly focused scope and all the trappings you’d expect from a survival game.  While the setting and characters have no obvious connections to any previous…

Netflix’s ‘Extremis’ Garners Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Short – Scored by Justin Melland

Justin Melland scored the Netflix Documentary Short, ‘Extremis,’  a 24-minute documentary about intensive hospital care and end-of-life decisions in Oakland, California’s Highland Hospital. The short documentary that manages to address several difficult questions about who ought to make the decisions of when it’s time to stop treatment was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short Category. Justin’s past…

Akira Yamaoka to create the music and sound of “Let it Die”

Akira Yamaoka — best known for the music and sound design on the Silent Hill series – has created the music and sound design for the PS4 exclusive hack and slash game “Let It Die”. It features Akira’ immersive original music and sound design as well as original songs with over 100 musicians from Japan.…

Michael A. Levine: The Man Behind The Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Theme ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody’

Michael A. Levine – When the first trailer was released for Capcom’s latest Resident Evil installment, “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard”, fans were instantly buzzing about the eerie theme song that accompanied the trailer, “Go Tell Aunt Rhody”. Cut to the game’s release, “Rhody” has become one of the franchises most popular themes. The man responsible…

2017 Sundance Film Festival: ‘Plastic China’ – Scored by Tyler Strickland

Tyler Strickland scored the Jiuliang Wang documentary ‘Plastic China,’ a film that tells the stories of two families: an unschooled 11-year-old girl, Yi-Jie, who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her YI minority parents in a recycle workshop a thousand miles away from their mountain village home town and the ambitious boss of the workshop, Kun,…

2017 Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Mars Generation’ – Scored by Tyler Strickland

Tyler Strickland scored the documentary ‘The Mars Generation,’ where director Michael Barnett delves into space exploration’s history and current state while looking beyond technology to what we will really need to get to the Red Planet: the power of youthful dreams. Through amazing archival footage of the space program as well as interviews with a number of scientists…