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词条 Tim Larkin
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{{for|the American self defense expert|Tim Larkin (self-defense)}}{{BLP sources|date=January 2012}}Tim Larkin is a composer and sound designer for Valve Corporation. Previously the audio director for Cyan software company that produced the Myst series of computer games. Before working at Valve, he worked at Cyan, working as a sound designer for Riven, and as a composer for realMyst, Ages Beyond Myst and End of Ages.[1]

He has 23 years experience in the game audio industry. He started in the game industry working as a composer/sound designer for Broderbund. He created sound design for Riven while working there and was later hired at Cyan to work on realMyst and Uru. Tim still performs session work regularly as a trumpet player as well as doing freelance sound design and composition outside Cyan. He created music and sound design for titles such as Middle-earth, The Incredibles, Pariah, The Lord of the Rings, and Prince of Persia. He won the Academy Award for sound design at the 75th Academy Awards for his work on the Sony Imageworks animated short film, The ChubbChubbs!. In the 2000s, Larkin was hired by Valve Corporation and worked on a number of their games, including Team Fortress 2, Portal, Portal 2, Global Offensive, Dota 2, and Artifact.[2]

Tim's experience in the music industry includes live performances as a trumpet player with artists Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Mel Tormé, Sheila E and Huey Lewis. He recorded on record albums for Ice-T and as a solo artist for Avenue Jazz. He worked on HBO's The Rat Pack, White Mile and Floundering. He has done the trumpet work for the documentaries National Geographic's Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal, Pearl Harbor and The White House, and American Experience documentaries on Galileo and the Wright Brothers.

URU

Uru{{'}}s music was composed by Tim Larkin, who had started his career at game publisher Brøderbund, and lobbied hard to be included on Riven{{'}}s development team.[3] Larkin worked on creating different sound effects for Riven and was chosen to score Uru after composer and Myst co-creator Robyn Miller left Cyan in early 1998.[4] The music for the game was collected as a soundtrack, Uru Music, that was released in 2003.

Larkin chose the instrumentation for each track based on the various digital environments in the game. When the player is in the game's representation of New Mexico, for example, Larkin used a resonator guitar and flutes, creating what he called something "indigenous to a southwest type of feel that's very contemporary". In other areas Larkin described the game's music as being "less typical than you would find in most games" because of the exotic landscape the developers had created.[5] To create contemporary and exotic types of music in the game, Larkin employed a combination of real and synthesized instruments. Sometimes Larkin replaced synthesized performances with those of real musicians, as in the track "Gallery Theme", where a synthesized vocal part was eventually discarded in favor of soprano Tasha Koontz.[5] To create an exotic feel, Larkin used a group of Maasai tribesmen's chanting, who were recorded during their visit to Spokane, Washington, where Cyan Worlds was located at that time.[3]

The Uru soundtrack received two Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) nominations in 2004—one for "Best Original Vocal Song (Choral)" for the "Gallery Theme" (which won), and another for "Best Original Soundtrack."[6] Beyond its use in Uru, "Gallery Theme" was later used in the theatrical trailer for Steven Spielberg's film, Munich.[7] The Uru soundtrack comes on an enhanced CD, containing a (nearly) four-minute music video called "Uru: The Makers" and an audio-only interview with Rand Miller and Tim Larkin.

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Marks|first=Aaron|title=The Complete Guide to Game Audio: For Composers, Musicians, Sound Designers, Game Developers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWBO0izdpF8C&pg=PA14|accessdate=23 April 2012|date=2008-10-28|publisher=Focal Press|isbn=9780240810744|pages=14–}}
2. ^{{cite web |last1=Larson |first1=Randall |title=ARTIFACT – Music for Digital Card Gaming |url=https://musiquefantastique.com/further-examinations/artifact-music-for-digital-card-gaming/ |website=musiquefantastique.com |accessdate=December 6, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|author=Miller, Jennifer |url=http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/UruTimLarkin/UruTimLarkin.shtm |title=Interview with Tim Larkin |publisher=Just Adventure |accessdate=October 19, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514080015/http://justadventure.com/Interviews/UruTimLarkin/UruTimLarkin.shtm |archivedate=May 14, 2008 }}
4. ^{{cite web|author=Lillington, Karen|date=March 2, 1998|url=http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/03/02feature.html|title='Myst' Partnership is Riven|work=Salon|accessdate=April 9, 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307111501/http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/03/02feature.html |archivedate=March 7, 2008}}
5. ^{{cite AV media notes| title = Uru Music materials| titlelink = Uru: Ages Beyond Myst#Audio| others = Tim Larkin| year = 2003| authorlink =| publisher = Ubisoft}}
6. ^{{cite web|author=Milano, Dominic|date=March 4, 2004|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2083/postcard_from_the_gdc_2004_the_.php|title=Postcard from the GDC 2004: The G.A.N.G. Awards|publisher=Gamasutra|accessdate=March 10, 2009}}
7. ^{{cite web|author=Larkin, Tim|date=December 5, 2005|url=http://www.timlarkin.net/news.htm|title=News: Spielberg's Munich trailer gets Tim's underscore|publisher=Tim Larkin.net|accessdate=October 28, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225010604/http://www.timlarkin.net/news.htm|archivedate=December 25, 2008|df=}}

External links

  • Cyan Worlds official website
  • [https://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/larkin/index.html Apple article about Tim Larkin]
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