2008 G.A.N.G. Awards for SCL Members
THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS
SCL Members Featured and Celebrated – G.A.N.G. Awards
http://www.TheSCL.com
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GAME AUDIO NETWORK GUILD (G.A.N.G.) ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS FOR 6TH ANNUAL G.A.N.G. AWARDS
The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), the non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of game audio, announced the winners for the 6th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards which honor outstanding creative, technical and artistic audio achievement in the world of interactive entertainment. Winners were announced at the G.A.N.G. Awards ceremony held in San Francisco, CA during the Game Developers Conference, including several SCL Members. Voted and judged upon by the game audio industry and members of G.A.N.G., BioShock made its mark by taking home every category it was nominated in.
AUDIO OF THE YEAR
MUSIC OF THE YEAR
BEST INTERACTIVE SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL INSTRUMENTAL for Welcome To Rapture
SCL Board Member Garry Schyman for BioShock
G.A.N.G. SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
SCL Board Member Russell Brower for World of Warcraft
(audio director & composer – Blizzard Entertainment)
BEST ORIGINAL VOCAL – CHORAL
SCL Member Gerard Marino for God of War II
BEST GAME AUDIO ARTICLE, PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST
The World of Game Composing by SCL Member Peter Alexander
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
SCL Member Austin Wintory (composer – flOw)
More information can be found at the G.A.N.G. website:
http://www.audiogang.org
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THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-profit and primary organization for professional film, TV and video game composers and lyricists, with a distinguished 60-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television. The predecessor organization, the Screen Composers Association, began in 1945 with such legendary icons as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin and David Raksin among others. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film/television/game music industry today. http://www.TheSCL.com
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