Winnie Waldron

Winnie Waldron

Producer Winnie Waldron on the day she received her third Gracie Award (red carpet photo, Gracie Awards gala, NYC Hilton)

Winnie Waldron on the day she received her third Gracie Award (red carpet photo, Gracie Awards gala, NYC Hilton)
Background information
Occupation(s) Music producer
Labels Sumthing Else, WaterTower, E.A.R.S. EA Recordings

Winnie Waldron is an American music producer for video games, a producer for radio, a radio script editor / adapter, a manuscript editor and a radio host.

Career

Radio

Waldron began her professional relationship with National Public Radio via the radio drama series Tales from the Other Side, a science fiction speculative series which aired as a part of NPR Playhouse in 1992. For this series, Waldron served as script editor, actress, on-air host and co-producer with her long-time creative partner Winifred Phillips.[1]

From 1992 to 2003, Waldron served as on-air host, producer and script editor / adapter[1] for a series of radio dramas, first presented on National Public Radio Playhouse under the title Generations Radio Theater Presents,[2] and then later as Generations Radio Theater Presents: Radio Tales.[3] This anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The programs air regularly as the Radio Tales series on the Sirius XM Book Radio channel of Sirius XM Satellite Radio.[4]

Video games

For her latest project, Waldron produced music for the Total War Battles: KINGDOM video game, developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega.[5]

Waldron served as music producer for the video game LittleBigPlanet 3: her work on this project earned a Hollywood Music in Media Award in the category of "Best Song in a Video Game."[6]

To date, Waldron has produced music for six games in the LittleBigPlanet franchise, including LittleBigPlanet 2,[7] LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross Controller,[8] LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story (DLC),[9] LittleBigPlanet Karting, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita[10] and LittleBigPlanet 3.

LittleBigPlanet 2 was nominated for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards in the category of 'Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition'.[11] LittleBigPlanet 2 was also nominated for the 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards in the category of 'Best Audio', which recognizes the overall excellence of audio in a game - including musical composition, orchestration, sound design, sound effects, etc.[12] The 10th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards nominated the original music track, Victoria's Lab from LittleBigPlanet 2 in the category of 'Best Original Vocal - Pop'.[13] Kotaku named the score of LittleBigPlanet 2 as one of the best video game soundtracks of the year. In the article "The Best Game Music of 2011: LittleBigPlanet 2", Features Editor Kirk Hamilton praised both the collection of licensed tracks and the original score, singling out theVictoria's Lab and Eve's Asylum tracks as his favorite original music of the game.[14]

Waldron produced the music for the video game Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, which was also released as a soundtrack album on October 30, 2012. She won a 2012 Hollywood Music in Media Award[15] and a GameFocus Award[16] for producing the music score for Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. The main theme music of the Assassin's Creed III: Liberation video game won a G.A.N.G. Award from the Game Audio Network Guild in the category of "Best Original Vocal Song - Choral."'[17] As the music producer for this game, Waldron also received nominations in several year-end award competitions, including the GameZone Awards,[18] the Best of IGN Awards,[19] and the G4TV X-Play Best of 2012 Awards.[20]

Waldron's first project as a music producer for video games was the God of War adventure game from Sony Computer Entertainment America.[21]

In 2007, Waldron worked with creative partner Winifred Phillips to produce a cover version of the theme song from the Super Mario Bros. video game for the compilation CD entitled Best of the Best: A Tribute to Game Music, Volume I, released by GameMusicCentral.[22]

In 2008, she was music producer for the Speed Racer video game.[23]

In 2009, Waldron produced the music of the Spore Hero videogame from Electronic Arts.[24]

Also in 2009, Waldron served as music producer for the video game "SimAnimals" for the Wii.[25] The music of "SimAnimals" was released as a downloadable soundtrack album by the record company E.A.R.S. EA Recordings on January 13, 2009.

Waldron is credited as music producer for the 2009 XBLA game The Maw.[26]

Other video games for which Waldron served as music producer include Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole,[27] Shrek the Third,[28] The Da Vinci Code,[29] and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.[30]

Waldron produced the music for the Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole video game soundtrack album, which was released on October 26, 2010 by WaterTower Music, a division of Warner Bros.[31] One of the tracks on the album, entitled "With Hearts Sublime", is a winner of a 2010 Hollywood Music in Media Award in the category "Best Original Song - Video Game".[32]

Other

Waldron served as the first manuscript editor of the book, A Composer's Guide to Game Music, which was published by MIT Press in March of 2014.[33]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. 1 2 "Winifred Phillips Official Site: Biography" Winifredphillips.com. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  2. ↑ "NPR Playhouse - January - March, 2001" MNinter.net. Accessed March 21, 2008.
  3. ↑ National Public Radio: "NPR Quarterly Program Guide, Spring 2001". NPR Marketing, Vol. VII, No. II
  4. ↑ "Program List for Channel Sirius XM Book Radio" XMRadio.com. Accessed March 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Total War Battles: Kingdoms (Video Game 2015) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb" IMDb.com. Accessed July 10, 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Hollywood Music in Media Awards: 2014 HMMA Winners". HMMAwards.org. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
  7. ↑ "The Music of LittleBigPlanet 2". Media Molecule. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  8. ↑ "Tunes to Play By: How Video-Game Music Gets Made". SoundWorks Collection. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story Features the Music of Winifred Phillips". WinifredPhillips.com. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Details and Credits for PlayStation Vita - Metacritic". Examiner.com. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  11. 1 2 "Uncharted Nominated in 12 Categories for Interactive Achievement Awards - Industry Gamers". industrygamers.com. 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
  12. 1 2 "Game Developers Choice Awards". gamechoiceawards.com. 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  13. 1 2 "Game Audio Network Guild Announced 10th Annual Award Nominees - Industry Gamers". industrygamers.com. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  14. ↑ "The Best Game Music of 2011: LittleBigPlanet 2". kotaku.com. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  15. 1 2 "Music Awards - Hollywood Music in Media Awards". hmmawards.org. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  16. 1 2 "The best video games of 2012 in GF by categories - Special Reports". GameFocus.com. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  17. 1 2 "ACIII Liberation Score Brings Home Another Award - Inside Gaming Daily Blog". InsideGamingDaily.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  18. 1 2 "GameZone's Game of the Year 2012 Nominations". gamezone.com. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  19. 1 2 "Best PS Vita Sound - Best of 2012 - IGN". ign.com. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  20. 1 2 "X-Play's Best of 2012 Awards Results - 2012 Game of the Year and More! - G4tv.com". g4tv.com. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  21. ↑ "Winifred Phillips Discusses Her Journey to Composing the Music for God of War" Ps2.gamezone.com. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  22. ↑ "SoundtrackNet: Best of the Best: A Tribute to Game Music, Volume 1 Soundtrack" Soundtrack.net. Accessed January 31, 2009.
  23. ↑ "Speed Racer: The Videogame (2008) Wii credits - MobyGames" Mobygames.com. Accessed October 27, 2010.
  24. ↑ "Spore Hero (2009) Wii credits - MobyGames" Mobygames.com. Accessed October 27, 2010.
  25. ↑ "The Sims Label Announces Winifred Phillips as the Composer of the Original Score for SimAnimals" Electronic Arts. Accessed March 9, 2010
  26. ↑ "EL33TONLINE: News - Exclusive: The Maw Q and A with Twisted Pixel" EL33TONLINE.com. Accessed January 31, 2009.
  27. ↑ "Video" Winifredphillips.com. Accessed October 26, 2010.
  28. ↑ "Game Credits for Shrek the Third" MobyGames.com. Accessed March 21, 2008.
  29. ↑ "Game Credits for The Da Vinci Code" MobyGames.com. Accessed March 21, 2008.
  30. ↑ "Game Credits for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" MobyGames.com. Accessed March 21, 2008.
  31. ↑ "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Original Videogame Soundtrack) by Winifred Phillips" iTunes. Accessed October 26, 2010.
  32. 1 2 "2010 HMMA Winners" Hmmawards.com. Accessed Nov. 20, 2010.
  33. ↑ "A Composer's Guide to Game Music" Google Books. Accessed November 7, 2014.
  34. ↑ "Music Talent Competition - Global Music Awards". thegma.net. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  35. ↑ "G.A.N.G. Awards 2013 Awards" audiogang.org. Accessed August 2, 2015.
  36. ↑ "Game Audio Network Guild - Winifred Phillips' Blog" Audiogang.org. Accessed January 29, 2010.
  37. ↑ "Visual Media Nominees" Hmmawards.com. Accessed December 10, 2009.
  38. ↑ "Movie Music U.K. Music Awards 2009" Webcache.googleusercontent.com. Accessed Oct. 24, 2010.
  39. ↑ "Winifred Phillips, Awards" Winifredphillips.com. Accessed Oct. 27, 2010.
  40. ↑ "Video Game News - 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards Winners Announced by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences" GameZone.com. Accessed March 9, 2010.
  41. 1 2 3 4 "4th Annual G.A.N.G. Award Winners Announced" Gamasutra.com. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  42. ↑ "GameSpot's Best of 2005 - Special Achievement Awards" GameSpot.com, as indexed by the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  43. ↑ "PAX Gamers - GOTY Awards - 2005 Features :: All" PAXgamers.com, as indexed by the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  44. ↑ "IGN.com presents The Best of 2005" IGN.com. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  45. ↑ "2005 Game of the Year - Best Games of 2005" GameZone.com. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  46. ↑ "AWRT Press Release" AWRT.org, as accessed by the Internet archive at Archive,org. Accessed March 9, 2010.
  47. ↑ "NPR Productions Win Gracie Allen Awards" NPR.org. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  48. ↑ "2001 Gracie Allen Award Winners" AWRT.org, as indexed by the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  49. ↑ "2004 Winners, Radio Programming and Promotion, New York Festivals" NewYorkFestivals.com, as indexed by the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  50. ↑ "NFCB Announces 2001 Golden Reel Award Winners" NFCB.org, as indexed by the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Accessed March 22, 2008.
  51. ↑ "Largo Library Virtual Reference Desk" TBLC.org. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  52. ↑ "Gamasutra - G-Phoria 2005 Award Nominees Announced" Gamasutra.com. Accessed September 16, 2008.
  53. ↑ "Samuel L. Jackson to Host; The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vin Diesel, The Rock, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & Ozzy Osbourne to Appear at Spike TV "Video Game Awards 2005" PRnewswire.com. Accessed September 16, 2008.

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