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Interview: Composer Virginia Leo

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This episode is a conversation with video game composer and sound designer Virginia Leo, whose work also includes adaptive & interactive media, VR, and film. We talk about how she approaches writing music for games and what it’s like working as a media composer in a fast-moving industry. She's a graduate from dBs Sound & Music Institute in Bristol with a Bachelor's Honours Degree in Sound for Games and Apps. She's been widely recognized for her achievements in composing at the yearly Global Game Jam, scoring the nature documentary Peregrine Coast by Andrew Salter, and for her score of the game The Baby in Yellow. To find out more about Virginia, you can go to: https://www.virginia-leo.com/ And you can check out her YouTube channel: click here To learn more about the podcast, click here. To signup for the newsletter, click here.

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