We’ve got a fun episode for you guys today. It’s also a fitting follow-up to our previous episode, so … cheers to proper progression!
Brenna and I grill young-and-aspiring composer / violinist / audio engineer Jeff Ball on all topics related to Jeff Ball’s life. Okay, not all of them. But many of them. As Brenna is herself (re)learning violin, we get into the nitty-gritty of violin technique. We also talk about Ball’s work on the Globulous soundtrack, his performances in collaboration with Sam Hulick on Red Orchestra 2 and Mass Effect 3, his take on how to forge an identity (without getting pegged and typecast as, for example, “the violin guy”), and of course, we get the full backstory on how Ball even got started in the biz. Hint: GDC is a special, special place.
Download: Original SoundCAST Episode #015
Want to know which songs we used during the show? Find out after the jump.
All songs composed by Jeff Ball unless otherwise noted:
[0:00:00] “Through the Ice Fields” from Tiny Barbarian
[0:03:40] “Interplanetary Cruise” from Astroman
[0:11:00] “Pursuit of Pavlov” from Red Orchestra 2: Heroes Of Stalingrad (comp: Sam Hulick, violin: Jeff Ball)
[0:14:00] “I Was Lost Without You” from Mass Effect 3 (comp: Sam Hulick, violin: Jeff Ball)
[0:20:00] “Obsidian Axiom” from Globulous
[0:31:30] “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14: III. Presto in moto” (comp: Samuel Barber, violin: Hilary Hahn, orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
[0:38:40] “Vapor Radian” from Globulous
[0:41:05] “Labyrinth of Dance Floors” from 25YEARLEGEND (comp: Koji Kondo, arr: Jeff Ball)
