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>>> - I was one of those kids who played too much video games. My mom would constantly yell at me to turn down the volume. But who could possibly turn down the volume to the original zelda? Thus the video game music seed was planted in my brain.

>>> - I had been introduced to music at a young age, taking piano lessons, and singing along in church. Later I had picked up the trumpet, and singing in choir. By the time I had graduated high school I could play trumpet, trombone, and tuba, and was in every possible band/vocal group I could join.

>>> - I first started composing when I had gotten my first DAW in 1999, cakewalk's home studio edition. I had started working on making music for small game projects made by friends, and later developed my composing skills from that to earn several composition awards from Illinois Music Educators Association, and go forth to be the first student at my high school to have a composition played in concert.

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>>> - I had joined the U.S. Navy between 2003-2007, where I had continued to compose as a hobby, and played in the military band. After the military I went to Full Sail University, where I got a degree in audio engineering, and first started composing, and making SFX for game dev students final projects.

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>>> - Right now I am actively offering audio services to the indie gaming communites, and working towards employment at a major game development company.

>>> - I still enjoy gaming as much as ever, and I always schedule time to sit down, and play games, and to never lose that spark.

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Some of my influences:

Danny Elfman, Ben Burtt, Gary Rydstrom, Nubuo Uematsu, John Williams, Starcraft, Diablo, Early Final Fantasy Games, Spiro 1+2, Star Wars, The Sims, Age Of Mythology, Half the Games made for Nintendo, Playing in Band in Highschool, Vocal Jazz, Many of the remixs at OCremix.org, Swaping out old sound effects in Old PC Games, My Mentors In the Full Sail Game Audio Department Chris, and Casey, And Finding cool Sounds on Accident.

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Contact Information

E-mail

Contact@danielgooding.me

Address

Daniel Gooding

1325 DeerRun Trail

Sandwich, IL 60548

 

 

(Cell) 321-960-1528