“First class composer. Efficient, knowledgeable, colaborative. Very highly recommended.”
About
Winifred Phillips is an award-winning game music composer. Some of her famous video game…
Experience & Education
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Digital Eclipse Entertainment Partners
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Publications
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A Composer's Guide to Game Music
The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
See publicationPublished by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, A COMPOSER'S GUIDE TO GAME MUSIC by award-winning composer Winifred Phillips has been hailed by celebrated film composer Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven), who called it "not just compulsory bedside reading for budding games composers, but a fine achievement in itself. Bravo!" The Boston Globe described Phillips's book as "the first book designed to help experienced musicians brave the transition to the world…
Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, A COMPOSER'S GUIDE TO GAME MUSIC by award-winning composer Winifred Phillips has been hailed by celebrated film composer Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven), who called it "not just compulsory bedside reading for budding games composers, but a fine achievement in itself. Bravo!" The Boston Globe described Phillips's book as "the first book designed to help experienced musicians brave the transition to the world of game composing," and Sound On Sound Magazine praised the book as "partly educational and partly inspirational... a great introduction to this specialist art." Also among those praising Phillips’s book is renowned video game director David Jaffe (God of War, the Twisted Metal series), who described Phillips’s book as “an important, deep, and rare exploration of video game music by one of the medium’s smartest and most talented voices.”
Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion-dollar, employment-generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, one of the most important qualifications for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games. “It’s very important to have an enduring passion for games,” Phillips writes. “With the right spark of enthusiasm, the process of writing music for games can be positively exhilarating.”
A Composer’s Guide to Game Music from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press offers indispensable guidance for musicians and composers who want to deploy their creativity in a dynamic and growing industry, protect their musical identities while working in a highly technical field, and create great music for a new medium.
Projects
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Game Developers Conference 2015 Speaker
See projectSelected to present two talks during the 2015 Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Talks entitled "LittleBigPlanet 3 and Beyond: Taking Your Score to Vertical Extremes" and "Advanced Composition Techniques for Adaptive Systems."
Honors & Awards
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National Indie Excellence Book Award
National Indie Excellence Awards
Now in its ninth year, the National Indie Excellence Book Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in books from independent publishers, including scholarly and university presses. A COMPOSER'S GUIDE TO GAME MUSIC (The MIT Press) by game composer Winifred Phillips won the National Indie Excellence Book Award in 2015 in the genre of Performing Arts (Film, Theater, Dance & Music).
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GMA Book Award - Gold Medal
Global Music Awards
The Global Music Awards presented a GMA Book Award Gold Medal this year to A Composer's Guide to Game Music, written by Winifred Phillips and published by The MIT Press. The book was judged as exceptional in the field of music, and was the first book to receive a GMA Book Award. The Global Music Awards is an international awards program honoring the music industry through the recognition of unique voices and talented international musical artists.
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Global Music Award
Global Music Awards
For the track, "LittleBigPlanet 3 Ziggurat Theme," from the game LITTLEBIGPLANET 3, in the category of "Video Game Music."
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Hollywood Music in Media Award
Hollywood Music in Media Awards
For the track, "LittleBigPlanet 3 Ziggurat Theme," from the game LITTLEBIGPLANET 3, in the category of "Best Song in a Video Game."
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Global Music Award
Global Music Awards
For the music of Assassin's Creed Liberation.
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Best of IGN Award (Nomination)
IGN.com
For the sound of Assassin's Creed III Liberation.
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Game Audio Network Guild Award
Game Audio Network Guild
For the music of Assassin's Creed III Liberation
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Game Audio Network Guild Award
Game Audio Network Guild
For the music of LittleBigPlanet Karting.
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GameFocus Award
Game-Focus.com
For the music of Assassin's Creed III Liberation.
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GameZone Awards (Nomination)
GameZone.com
For the music of Assassin's Creed III Liberation.
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Hollywood Music in Media Award
Hollywood Music in Media Association
For the music of Assassin's Creed III Liberation
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X-Play's Best of 2012 Awards (Nomination)
G4TV
For the music of Assassin's Creed III Liberation.
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