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Thank you all for your interest! We have come to a decision to which few will be interviewed for the position of music composer on our team!

We are following up with scheduling short interviews with some of our top picks.

We will be messaging those whom we'd like to have a short interview with. Look out for a message from us with our Skype username and a link to download a PDFs of our contract and job description.

This is a contracted position, and as such, you’ll be responsible for handling any tax and/or government
requirements needed by the country in which you reside. You will be considered an Independent
Contractor to our company and will be responsible for providing your own equipment and ergonomic home
office set-up.

Our lead designer, producer, and our Art Director/Accountant will be in the conference call with you for the interview.

We have had some very talented composers share there work here with us and we were actually surprised how some of you were extremely versatile and well equipped in many different styles. We will probably come back here again for future projects. You guys are awesome! Thanks again!

Good afternoon!

We're coming close to a decision for whom will work with our team. We will still be looking at potential candidates for the next few days and maybe part of this weekend.

Many of you have been asking about our rates. We're paying for each music track 1-2 minutes each, and we're looking at 12-15 tracks total. If you'd like more information about our exact compensation rate please PM us, we do not want to disclose that information publicly at this time on the forum.

We really would like for everyone to post their examples of EACH of the styles we mentioned here in this thread.

We have only considered those who have shown authentic and quality examples in each style.

Looking forward to hearing more great work from the NG Audio Portal community.

Good afternoon everyone!

Looks like we've gotten many PMs this morning and overnight!

Everything posted in here looks great!

---deadfishes:
It is understandable, with all those links and examples posted it could easily get messed up in the BBS or HTML code here. It happens, but I do want to say that you seem to have been one of probably two other music composers to provide us with samples of pretty much everything we need.

We would like to see everyone post one or more samples in each of the styles we requested in the original post.
The more, the better.

ALSO: Someone asked about working with sound design. We are working on SFX ourselves but we might still consider someone working on SFX with us as well. So I guess we are now open to that possibility. You can PM us for that.

So something just came up. We actually would PREFERit if people were to post their samples in the thread rather than PM or e-mail. We are sharing this public thread with our investors and other team members. It's easier for us to just send them the link of this topic than for us to copy and paste everything in this thread and everything from the PM's.

Thanks guys, we're putting our development on hold for the next couple of days to focus on making sure we find the right person to provide music for us.

At 2/8/14 11:02 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 2/8/14 10:50 PM, DarkAbyssGames wrote: Maybe if people collaborate, but we'd like to find our ideal candidate as described in our first post if we could.

There are a lot of musicians here that are talented in multiple genres. I, myself, write a wide range of genres, usually just whatever suits my fancy at the time, but even I'm missing a couple things from your list. I can do metal, rock, orchestral, orchestral metal/rock, trance, DnB, etc. etc.

... But I've never tried Jazz before, and I struggle with stuff like Dubstep (I don't have anything in that vein on my profile, I have a short complextro section in my most recent song though).

I understand the concern of losing a bit of consistency using multiple artists, but given how wide of a range you are looking for, especially if you're looking for people with their own live instruments for the acoustic genres (I.E. You said you want people to not use VST saxophones for instance), I think you're going to have a very hard time finding a single person that is capable of all that.

Good luck finding someone, but I think you'll be looking a long, long time if you don't compromise and split up the work a little bit between different musicians.

Thanks, it's good to know that you guys understand where we are coming from. Really, this is mostly coming from people who have invested in our game.

We'll try to stick around here for a bit to see if anything comes up, I'm sure we'll find something. If not we might ask for people to collaborate with each other.

Also, we're considering anyone and everyone! Please don't be shy guys, we're really interested in listening to your music!

At 2/8/14 10:44 PM, stunkel wrote: Sounds interesting! But I have to ask, what kind of game uses ALL of these genres? I'm not trying to say your game is wrong for doing so, I've never actually seen a game using near as many genres as you listed. It's definitely unique and you don't see it very often! So I hope that works out for you guys.

Also why not hire a bunch of different musicians? Most games do this as an advantage because everybody has a different style and it will bring a lot more variety to the table! Just an idea though.

Anyways, I have some orchestral works, and some electronic stuff. I can do just about every genre on here too, but there are plenty of musicians on here that are better suited. But I am most comfortable with orchestral.

Off the top of my head, here are some musicians who will fit your genres:

camoshark for jazz and live playing
ZipZipper and steampianist for quirky music.
geoplex for DnB
step for orchestral hybrid
samulis for anything orchestral or classical

And here is some of my music
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/523343
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/552412
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/527853

Okay I will be looking at some of those profiles and yours as well.

We have discussed it over many meetings that using different artists really had a negative impact on the game's aesthetic music-wise.

Is it a bit of a stretch though to find a someone who can make some awesome orchestral hybrids tracks, lash out a great jazz tune that sounds very convincing and make some rockin' tracks as well?

Maybe if people collaborate, but we'd like to find our ideal candidate as described in our first post if we could.

I am part of a very small and very talented team of game developers working on a game that will be released on the Google Play (Android) and the iTunes App Store (iOS).

This is a PAID job. We are privately funded. You will be compensated upon delivering the audio tracks. You will only be compensated for the music that is going to be used in the game.

We're looking towards a late-spring release so we'd probably need all the music tracks completed by the end of March.

Music tracks will be about 1-2 minutes. You will be compensated per each music track used in the game. There will be about 15 music tracks give or take a few more.

We're also anticipating to port our game to steam sometime in the near future.

We did consider taking from many different musicians here on the website, but it came to our attention that the continuity of the music overall, and the flow of the different styles just didn't work out. Perhaps a composer capable of doing many different styles WELL would be the best.

Most of the users that we have stumbled on have some great orchestral music or great electronic music, etc... but none seem to be "all-around" or proficient across the board consistently in many styles.

We're looking for someone who can do all of the following really well:

Orchestral Soundtrack --- Something from modern orchestra scores these days
Orchestral Hybrid --- Mixing Orchestra with Electronic and Rock elements
Rock --- Hardrock/Metal
Electronica - DnB, Dubstep, House
Jazz --- We need at least one live instrument. We'd prefer this to be really authentic. No mock-up or fake saxophones or trumpets please.
Classical --- We're talking about music from actual classical musical periods. Not really full-on orchestral, maybe a quartet or something?
Quirky/Fun/Casual --- Something you'd hear in a casual game like Candy Crush.

So why do we want multiple styles?

In our game, (which we can give more details about later) there are several "main" characters who have their own unique styles artwise and music-wise as well. Also, in the game you will be collecting music "pick-ups" that will be varied musical styles.

Classical has a certain "power" that differers from the Rock "power," for example.

If you are interested, please post one or two of each of the styles we have specified we needed.
You can post in this thread or PM us.

We do understand not many out there proficient in many styles so if you see this and know someone who could help us out, please let them know about us!

I don't know how often people come on here requesting for musicians, so I hope this is okay and not against any sort of forum rules.

Thanks guys looking forward to hearing some awesome music!