{"id":133,"date":"2009-05-02T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-05-01T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:20:42","slug":"christopher-tin-inteview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/christopher-tin-inteview\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Tin Inteview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocremix.org\/info\/Composer_Interview:_Christopher_Tin\">good interview<\/a> with my friend Chris where he talks about his experience with <em>Civ4<\/em>&#8216; s <em>Baba Yetu<\/em> and his upcoming album, <em>Calling All Dawns<\/em>. Must have been fun to record in Abbey Road! Here&#8217;s a good quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Liontamer: <\/strong>You&#8217;ve actually been to Video Games Live performances at both the <a href=\"http:\/\/videogameslive.com\/gallery\/v\/concert\/album10_0\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/videogameslive.com\/gallery\/v\/concert\/album10_0\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Bowl in LA<\/a> and The Kennedy Center in DC. How often have you able to attend shows within the tour? As part of the regular composer meet-and-greets there, do you have any memorable stories of meeting with fans or fellow composers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> I try to attend the California ones; the only exception is the Kennedy Center show, which I thought was too good of an opportunity to pass up. On the whole, though, I don&#8217;t have a lot of time to be going to a lot of the concerts. As for stories from the Meet And Greets, my favorite is when I was sitting between my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,50568\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,50568\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Soren Johnson<\/a> (designer for <em>Civ IV<\/em>, currently on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spore<\/a><\/em>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,111543\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,111543\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Will Littlejohn<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarherogame.com\/gh1\/\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guitarherogame.com\/gh1\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guitar Hero<\/a><\/em>).  Will turned to us and said, \u201cHey guys, we just wanted you to know that while we were working on <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>, during all our lunch breaks we would play <em>Civ IV<\/em>.\u201d  To which Soren replied: \u201cThat&#8217;s funny, because during all our breaks on <em>Civ<\/em>, we would all play <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>!\u201d  That was a great little moment, and I think it speaks well to our close-knit community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good interview with my friend Chris where he talks about his experience with Civ4&#8216; s Baba Yetu and his upcoming album, Calling All Dawns. Must have been fun to record in Abbey Road! Here&#8217;s a good quote: Liontamer: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/christopher-tin-inteview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}