Episode 34: Winifred Phillips

My guest this week is Winifred Phillips. Winifred Phillips is a composer for video games, television, radio and film. She is a winner of the Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, a two-time winner of the Hollywood Music in Media Award, and the winner of several Game Audio Network Guild awards, including Music of the Year. She's also a published author of a comprehensive resource book about the field of game music, A Composer's Guide to Game Music. Her book offers a practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field. In this episode, we talk about the future of music in VR games, essential job skills for game composers, the difference between composing for mobile vs consoles, her work on Little Big Planet games and Assassin's Creed Liberation, why she wrote A Composer's Guide to Game Music and some of the challenges she overcame to get it done.