Pixel Symphonic

This month’s guest is Chase Bethea, composer for games like Aground, </reality>, On the Peril of Parrots, Sunken Stones, and more! We talk about his background in music, his endeavors to try and make soundtracks out of the sounds he feels video games are missing, the importance of testing your music in context during the development cycle, and more.This episode features music by Nor and Chase Bethea.SUPPORT CHASE’S WORK!Chase’s Bandcamp: https://chasebethea.bandcamp.com/musicChase’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chasebethea.bsky.social

It’s time for the inaugural episode of a brand new outing! Pixel Symphonic is a show about video game music. We’re here to learn and talk about it with the people who make it, the people who listen to it, and everything in between. This new show will be releasing one episode a month, with a new guest each month.For my first guest it just felt right to bring on my old Original Soundchat cohost Peter Spezia. He may be retired and out of the game now, but there’s nobody else in the world I like talking about game music with more. Our conversation goes into how we got into video music through largely the same entry point, and also Peter’s favorite soundtrack from his adult years.This episode features music by Nor, Takahiro Nishi, Shogo Sakai, Masaaki Iwasaki, David Wise, Michiko Naruke, Jun Senoue, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuka Tsujioko, Kenji Ito, Jun Ishikawa, Noriyuki Iwadare, Kenichi Nishimaki, Yoko Shimomura, Shoji Meguro, and ACE.