ST2 #12 - Racing Special (w/Steve Collett, Ian Livingstone and TDK) [COMPOSER INTERVIEW / PODCAST]
Episode 101, Sep 04, 2020, 06:00 PM
From the oldest arcade cabinets, racing games have been incredibly popular. They’ve revved their way through just about every console and computer chip imaginable, and drifted around every audio innovation with ease. What was once a dedicated and focused profession has widened in scope, especially since the introduction of licensed music and the ever-increasing prevalence of orchestral instrumentation.
For this racing special, I spoke to three of the genre’s most prolific professionals. Firstly, from Lowrider Sound, I’m joined by Steve Collett, an industry legend, who has composed for series like MotoGP, curated licensed soundtracks and worked extensively in sound design. However, MotoGP later had bespoke soundtracks by Ian Livingstone, first credited in the racing genre on Formula 1 1999. Since then, Ian has received an Ivor Novello award, and helped set the tone for five further games in the series, alongside many others. While Ian wrote music for F1 through the first half of the 2010s, sound effects were handled by none other than Mark Knight – also known as TDK. Yet, Mark is no stranger to providing his own compositions for various racers, starting in 1995 with Cyberspeed before taking the F1 reigns himself twenty years later.
Lee Tyrrell on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/GreenT128
Lowrider Sound (Steve Collett) on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lowridersound
Ian Livingstone on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ianliv
TDK on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TDK_Chiptune
For this racing special, I spoke to three of the genre’s most prolific professionals. Firstly, from Lowrider Sound, I’m joined by Steve Collett, an industry legend, who has composed for series like MotoGP, curated licensed soundtracks and worked extensively in sound design. However, MotoGP later had bespoke soundtracks by Ian Livingstone, first credited in the racing genre on Formula 1 1999. Since then, Ian has received an Ivor Novello award, and helped set the tone for five further games in the series, alongside many others. While Ian wrote music for F1 through the first half of the 2010s, sound effects were handled by none other than Mark Knight – also known as TDK. Yet, Mark is no stranger to providing his own compositions for various racers, starting in 1995 with Cyberspeed before taking the F1 reigns himself twenty years later.
Lee Tyrrell on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/GreenT128
Lowrider Sound (Steve Collett) on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lowridersound
Ian Livingstone on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ianliv
TDK on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TDK_Chiptune
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