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Michael Sweet Associate Professor Film Scoring "Video game audio is a multidisciplinary field; it's so varied and massive in scope, with about six disciplines combined into one. On one hand, you have to be the John Williams: you have to write the music. But on the other hand, for it to work with the video game, there's also the logic of how all that music is going to work together in the game and how that stuff interacts. For composers, you have to wrap your head around some new concepts that you don't encounter as a linear film composer. Those things include branching and looping, and being able to transition from one place to another very quickly. In a game, you have to plan for all the variances of how a player might actually be interacting with the game." Read more about Sweet... More on the Faculty...

News, Events, and Music…

• International Folk Festival

  This annual performance celebrates Berklee's abundant international student population—24 percent—proving that music is truly a cultural bridge. Students and faculty from the Bahamas, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and the United States will perform, some wearing the vibrant clothing and playing the instruments from their home lands. More

• What's Happening at Berklee

  Every week publicist Mitzi Dorbu suggests choice concerts and events by students, faculty, alumni, and special guests on Berklee's campus and at locales around Boston and beyond. The sounds are exciting, many shows are free, and the music is as diverse as Berklee itself. More

• Sounds of Berklee Podcast

  Berklee student Ann Driscoll travels to Austin, Texas this month to perform at South by Southwest, along with many other Heavy Rotation Records artists. Can't make it to Austin? Listen to Driscoll's "Ringmaster" from the comfort of your own home. More