This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing Darren Korb, award-winning audio director, song-writer, and composer. Darren is audio director at independent game developer Super Giant Games where he has composed the music, conducted voice recording, and created most of the sound effects for the small independent studio’s critically acclaimed titles, Bastion and Transistor. Bastion has sold over three million copies and PC Gamer states “Bastion is special, the soundtrack is phenomenal”. Darren’s scores for both games have garnered many industry awards. Awards for Bastion, which was the first video game score Darren had written, include Best Original Score at the Spike Video Game Awards, Best Music Award from Official Xbox Magazine and Best Audio in a Casual/Indie/Social Game from the Game Audio Network Guild. In addition, the track ‘Build That Wall (Zia’s Theme)’ won the Best Song in a Game award from Spike Video Game Awards and the Song of The Year in Gamespot’s Game of The Year awards. The musical style of the soundtrack has been described by Korb as “acoustic frontier trip hop”. A soundtrack album for the game was released due to fan demand. Darren went on to write the score and songs for Super Giant Games next release, Transistor, describing it as “old-world electronic post-rock”. The Transistor soundtrack album was released in 2014 and sold 48,000 copies within the first 10 days of release. Darren received his BA from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2007, studying Music Production and Music Business. Since then in addition to writing scores for Super Giant Games he has worked as a session musician, produced several New York recording artists, composed for various TV and film projects, written a Power Pop musical, and authored songs for the Rock Band Network. He is also the 2010 national Rock Band champion!
Tune in Saturday 9-10 PM to find out more about the life and art of Darren Korb. For more info and to hear previous shows visit www.itsaquestionofbalance.com
