Game Music Workshop: Elliot Leung – Design for Open World Game and Adaptive Audio
Workshop | CCL22230639
The HKBU School of Creative Arts, with the kind support of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, hosts acclaimed composer Elliot Leung for a wide-ranging discussion on the occasion of the world premiere of his Metaverse Symphony.
In this lecture demonstration, Elliot Leung will discuss his role as a composer when developing an open-world game. How to understand game mechanic and its relationship with music when the game has no linear narrative? How to design music when a gamer has total control? What is the composer’s mindset and necessary skill to write music for this genre? Elliot will share his experience as a game music composer, and will interact with the audience to demonstrate how to observe game triggers and how music can cope with game actions. He will look at some classics open-world game design as case studies. Finally, Elliot will lay out his idea on how game music design informs his composition of the futuristic Metaverse Symphony.
About Elliot Ho Yat Leung
Elliot Ho Yat Leung is the first and only composer to breakthrough from Hong Kong to Hollywood. He has composed the score for 3 of the top 10 highest-grossing non-English films with his films grossing over $2 billion USD, making him one of the highest grossing composers in Asia. His music has been described as being "audio-graphically visual" by The Standard, and being able to "invigorate life" by Film Inquiry. Leung is a Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2022 inductee and 3-time ASCAP Award winner. Leung’s expertise in hybrid orchestral scores also saw him composing for popular video game titles like Honour of Kings by Tencent Games, Dragonheir: Silent Gods by Bytedance and LifeAfter: Season 3 by Netease Games. His upcoming work includes the highly anticipated first-person shooter Six Days in Fallujah by Victura to be released on Playstation, Xbox and PC and a currently unannounced Hollywood film. In addition to his composition career, Leung was also appointed as the first Chairman of the Young Patrons Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022. Leung was mentored by renowned composer Martin O'Donnell (Halo/Destiny).
In this lecture demonstration, Elliot Leung will discuss his role as a composer when developing an open-world game. How to understand game mechanic and its relationship with music when the game has no linear narrative? How to design music when a gamer has total control? What is the composer’s mindset and necessary skill to write music for this genre? Elliot will share his experience as a game music composer, and will interact with the audience to demonstrate how to observe game triggers and how music can cope with game actions. He will look at some classics open-world game design as case studies. Finally, Elliot will lay out his idea on how game music design informs his composition of the futuristic Metaverse Symphony.
About Elliot Ho Yat Leung
Elliot Ho Yat Leung is the first and only composer to breakthrough from Hong Kong to Hollywood. He has composed the score for 3 of the top 10 highest-grossing non-English films with his films grossing over $2 billion USD, making him one of the highest grossing composers in Asia. His music has been described as being "audio-graphically visual" by The Standard, and being able to "invigorate life" by Film Inquiry. Leung is a Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2022 inductee and 3-time ASCAP Award winner. Leung’s expertise in hybrid orchestral scores also saw him composing for popular video game titles like Honour of Kings by Tencent Games, Dragonheir: Silent Gods by Bytedance and LifeAfter: Season 3 by Netease Games. His upcoming work includes the highly anticipated first-person shooter Six Days in Fallujah by Victura to be released on Playstation, Xbox and PC and a currently unannounced Hollywood film. In addition to his composition career, Leung was also appointed as the first Chairman of the Young Patrons Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022. Leung was mentored by renowned composer Martin O'Donnell (Halo/Destiny).
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