D'Anthoni Wooten: composing music for video games

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Early video game music was once limited to simple sounds by the limited technology available, which led to the style of music known as chiptune. Chiptune is the signature sound of the first video games.

While chiptunes still thrive in certain games, game music now includes full orchestration and pop music from may genres.

Teams of composers, music directors, and music supervisors work with game developers and publishers. The popularity of video game music has created education and job opportunities. like movie scores, popular video game soundtracks are now enjoyed independently of the games that spawned them - in recordings and live performances.

D’Anthoni Wooten is a film, game, and television composer currently based in Los Angeles. He grew up in Olathe, Kansas (outside of Kansas City) where he took to learning piano, composition, and music technology from a young age. He later attended Berklee College of Music in 2013, where he studied film scoring and electronic production and design and focused much of his studies in scoring for games. After college he interned for the Japanese production company “G-Angle” which later led to the path to score for various short films, games, and television including aMAZEin (indie game), Flame Guardian (indie game), Fair Trade (Posted on Linkup TV), Black Boys Film (Selected in the Toronto Film Festival), Long Way Home (with universal film editor Kat McAuley).

Some of his biggest accomplishments include scoring for the Japanese Company: Takahashi Shoten (高橋書店) which aired their 2020 company campaign “Footsteps” and was broadcasted on Japanese television. D’Anthoni focuses on orchestral, ambient, and experimental music. He also scored for the British Film “Fair Trade” which has received over a half a million views on LinkUp TV on YouTube.

D’Anthoni fully believes that music should connect to the heart no matter the style or genre and wants to keep an open mind no matter what project he jumps into.

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