What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
Film, Multimedia, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
What is your favorite genre or style of music?
video game music, film music
Is music your main income source?
Yes!
About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
I compose video game music full time these days. I work for a company called SomaTone Interactive, based in California. My life is fun and full of music :) If anyone has any tips or advice or anything to say to me, I would like to read your comments!
Comments
Greetings John,
I like your music very much. It is quite professional, and very compelling. Thanks for sharing.
Very best,
Larry Elliott
for anyone interested: http://soundcloud.com/john-hoge/winds-of-adventure
Hehe. Well it has cost alot of money! And to be honest, Hollywood Strings has been my best investment since my computer, when it comes to orchestral libraries! Also, I've been looking at other libraries for choirs, and found Liberis and Requiem Pro by Tonehammer. You should look into those. They seem even better than Symphonic Choirs!
Thanks alot John! :D
Yeah I scored a private fake trailer for LOTR that my buddy did. He wanted that theme in there, but still with some originality to it. :)
I used EWQL Hollywood Strings, EWQL Storm Drum, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Platinum (with Pro XP) and EWQL Symphonic Choirs for this piece, and all the other pieces as well, except of course not the choir, for the pieces that had none. ;)
IMO it has alot of FFA(Hitoshi Sakamoto) feeling to it which i really like!
very cheery and yet epic and tells alot of story!
imo it sounds very professional as-well!