November 7, 2003: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has just announced their Games Awards Nominations. Bill's scores for Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War (Activision / id) and Command and Conquer: Generals (EA) (co-written with Mikael Sandgren, Soundelux DMG) have been nominated in the BAFTA Music Category! Congratulations to all of the nominees in all categories! Listen to Bill's C&C:Generals and RtCW Music here. View trailers and purchase these titles at Bill's Store, including the newly released Return to Castle Wolfenstein Platinum Edition which bundles the original RtCW with Enemy Territory and the recently released first C&C: Generals expansion, Zero Hour.
November 3, 2003: The Intro music from the newly released Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Xbox (UbiSoft) has just been posted along with Dungeon - Ominous Visitors from Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (NCSoft) and three unreleased tracks from Bill's Trespasser score (Dreamworks / EA) including "Mayan Temple Theme", "Forest Walk" and the intro cinematic music "Apartment Crash Intro.
October 21, 2003: The upcoming Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Xbox (GOLD), R63: Raven Shield for MAC and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword (UbiSoft) are all available for pre-order at Bill's Web Store. Athena Sword and Raven Shield feature free shipping! View the stunning Rainbow Six 3 Xbox Trailer featuring Bill's new music. Listen to Bill's R63: Raven Shield Music and check back for new music when Athena Sword and R63-Xbox ships.
October 10, 2003: Bill has composed a new concert work titled Adventure Fanfare, a preview for Project SAM Orchestral Libraries, using the upcoming SAM Trumpets (still in production at the time of this release). SAM Trumpets is the third sample library in Project SAM's orchestral brass line. This library will be the most extensive of the three. Listen to a higher bitrate sample of Bill's "Adventure Fanfare" on the SAM Trumpets demo page!
October 10, 2003: To celebrate Command & Conquer: Generals and the new Zero Hour Mission Pack (EA) both being on the NPD Top 10 best selling PC games in the US for the week ending September 27, and the 6,000+ downloads of Bill's previously released Zero Hour music track that we mentioned in the last E-Newsletter in just the first two days, we are posting up a new music track, Zero Hour USA 10! Generals and Zero Hour are both available at Bill's Web Store with free shipping. Generals will soon be available for the MAC.
September 26, 2003: The first expansion for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour (Electronic Arts) is now available in stores and at Bill's Web Store with free shipping and new Zero Hour trailers featuring Bill's music. New music from Zero Hour has just been posted!
September 15, 2003: Bill has just completed music for two Academy of Television Arts & Sciences PSAs (Public Service Announcements) which will be featured in the 55th annual Emmy Awards show! The two spots are titled "Academy" and "Interns". The "Academy" music clip has just been posted. The Emmy Awards Show will broadcast on Sunday, September 21st on Fox.
September 15, 2003: A Production Library Music CD Titled: "Cinematic Drama on the Edge" featuring music from Bill's archives will soon be available for use in your productions from The Hollywood Edge. See Bill's Web Store for purchasing information. (This CD does not feature music from Bill's past projects). More information on this CD will be posted soon.
August 16, 2003: Update! The english language Lineage II official site now features the collection of orchestrated scores by Bill in streaming media and MP3 formats.
August 5, 2003: More Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle music is now available for download at the official Lineage II Korean Site. The official Lineage II English Site has also been updated with new movies and news. Visit Bill's Bill's Lineage II music page for more music.
August 5, 2003: We have added music from several of Bill's previous television commercial spots to the Film/TV Music page. The newly added music tracks are Gatorade Propel: "Surfaces", Nintendo: "Mario Brothers - Hallway", Kraft Miracle Whip: "Lost at Sea" and Nintendo Gameboy: "Donkey Kong Country". Links to view some of the video trailers and TV spots featuring Bill's music are on the Credits page under the film projector icons.
July 21, 2003: GameZone has posted a new interview with Bill featuring some background on his Lineage II score as well as general questions on his creative process, inspirations, upcoming projects and more. More interviews can be found on Bill's Press Page.
July 1, 2003: Bill is pleased to announce that a rousing suite of his Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield music will be performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra as part of the first Live Symphonic Game Music Concert of the world outside of Japan. This event will take place on August 20th 2003 as part of the opening ceremony of the GC - Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, a leading games industry convention in Europe.
Event producer Thomas B�cker comments that the 90 minute event will feature the greatest titles of recent years like Final Fantasy, Medal of Honor, Legend of Zelda, Headhunter, Outcast and more.
"Bill Brown is a very well-known composer for many outstanding games. His music always adds that special atmosphere to entertainment productions that makes them shine. The music for 'Raven Shield' continues his story of success. An event that claims to perform the greatest hits of recent years cannot be without Brown's work."
To commemorate this special event, three more of Bill's Raven Shield MP3 music tracks have just been added to Bill's Tom Clancy series Music Page. Read the Music Reviews!
The concert takes place at the concert hall Gewandhaus zu Leipzig Germany. (translate). You can view the complete concert program here. Tickets for the Symphonic Game Music Concert are available now. (translate).
June 5, 2003: New music from the upcoming online game Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle by NCSoft has just been posted featuring the orchestral Intro and Outro music and the Lineage II E3 Trailer score. A link to download the newly released E3 Trailer has just been added to Bill's Store and Lineage II is now available for pre-order at Bills Store.
June 2, 2003: The US version DVD of the film Scorcher that Bill scored is now available for pre-order at Bill's Store! The Region 2 version is also available for UK visitors. Music here!
May 19, 2003: Bill attended E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo and several photos from the event have been added to Bill's Photos page! A new music track from the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) E3 Trailer has been added. You will find a link to download the E3 video trailer on Bill's Store. One more track from Bill's Command & Conquer: Generals score has also been posted. Listen to C&C Generals USA 08! More info on these titles can be found in previous news and at Bill's Store.
Rainbow Six 3's first Mission Pack Athena Sword for PC and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Island Thunder for Xbox were also shown at E3 and are both now available for pre-order.
May 7, 2003: Bill recently returned from the orchestra recording session for Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle in Seattle. Photos from the session have been added to Bill's Photos page. IGN has posted a press release by NCSoft announcing that Bill is composing the musical score for Lineage II. Check out NCSoft's E3 site for more information on Lineage II.
May 7, 2003: The Main Menu track from Bill's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (UbiSoft / Redstorm) has been posted. Also in the news is the release of the Xbox version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Activision / id Software) subtitled "Tides of War", available now at Bill's Store. The PS2 version, "Operation Resurrection" is expected the end of May and is available for pre-order. Check out the Music of Wolfenstein here.
April 5, 2003: Music4Games has a new feature titled Ubimusic Records Live Orchestra For Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, listing the production team and quoting Bill and Simon Pressey of UbiSoft on the experience. More articles and interviews can be found on Bill's Press page.
The first Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield Reviews are in! Read what they are saying about the music! Listen to Bill's Raven Shield music here.
April 5, 2003: The Jeep "Guardrail" TV Commercial Spot that Bill wrote and produced the music for can be viewed here. Listen to the music here.
March 31, 2003: A selection of Bill's music from the recently released Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield has been posted! Raven Shield is the third installment of the award winning best-selling Rainbow Six series by UbiSoft / Redstorm Entertainment. Raven Shield has received IGN's Editor's Choice Award and is currently available with Free Shipping and a $10.00 Mail-In Rebate at Bill's Store, where you can also view video trailers. A special Raven Shield Release Video filmed at the UbiSoft Canada office can be downloaded here (9.7mb). Several photos of the orchestra recording session have been posted on Bill's Photos page. View a movie clip of the orchestra playing a bit of Bill's Raven Shield music here!
March 31, 2003: If you have been wanting to purchase the 'Scorcher' and 'Trapped' films that Bill scored, but are unable to play Region 2 DVDs we have good news! The new GameShark2 Version 3 for Playstation2 ($39.99) is now available on Bill's Store and allows your PS2 to play DVDs from any region in the world! Read more about the films and listen to the music on Bill's Scorcher and Trapped pages.
March 31, 2003: The Gatorade "Propel" television commercial that is currently airing titled "Surfaces" that Bill composed and produced the music for, has won Top Spot of the Week March 28, 2003 from Shoot Magazine, the leading newsweekly for commercial production and postproduction. Congratulations to Gatorade and to director Gerard de Thame and the crew! View the 30 second Gatorade "Surfaces" video. (This video clip has better quality audio than the clip on the Shoot page). The Propel Flash Site also features Bill's music!
March 8, 2003: Check out GameSpy's article "Does Melody Matter?" which gives an overview of one of the panel presentations that Bill participated in at the Game Developer's Conference this past week! See more info on the GDC panels that Bill participated in below.
February 27, 2003: The first Command & Conquer: Generals reviews are in! Check out what they are saying about the music! Generals has received IGN's Editor's Choice Award and Generals is the #1 Top Seller according to NPD Techworld for the week of February 9-15 2003! We have also posted excerpts of an interview with Mical Pedriana, lead sound designer at EA Pacific, discussing the music of Generals. Free shipping and a Bonus download is available on Generals at Bill's Store! (Bonus is available until May 30, 2003).
February 13, 2003: Bill has just finished up an interview chatting with John [JCal] Callaham of HomeLAN. Check out the interview here. More interviews can be found on Bill's Press page.
February 11, 2003: Command & Conquer: Generals (Electronic Arts / EA Pacific) has just been released and several of Bill's "Generals" music tracks have just been posted. The full C&C Generals score was composed and produced by Bill and Mikael Sandgren, also of Soundelux DMG. View the video trailers and pick up the game at Bill's Store! More info on Generals in previous news.
February 11, 2003: Bill will be speaking on two panels at the upcoming Game Developer's Conference in March 2003. The "Producing Orchestral Scores for Games" Panel is scheduled for Thursday, March 6th, 9:00-10:00AM. Audio CDs from the sessions are expected to be available following the conference.
"Producing Orchestral Scores for Games: Description: In this session, the speakers will discuss making orchestral scores for games a reality from the point of view of the producer as well as the composer. On the production side, topics include how an orchestral score might benefit your game, developing and selling the budget, exploring the cross-promotional potential of an orchestral soundtrack and possible added revenue from selling the soundtrack CD. From the point of view of the composer, topics include methods of writing game specific music for an orchestra, choosing the orchestra, and selling your producer on the orchestra. Key points that are addressed are the specific production methods, the standards of excellence and how an acute attention to detail is required to reach any degree of success in an orchestrated soundtrack."
The second GDC panel that Bill will be on is titled "Does Melody Matter?". This presentation is scheduled for Friday, March 7, 9:00-10:00AM.
"Does Melody Matter?: Description: Melody is the soul of any soundtrack. Whether it's a TV, film or game soundtrack, melody helps create the emotional drive in any entertainment experience and plays a major role in sustaining the memory of that experience. Some may disagree and say melodies have no place in today's video games. Beginning with examples in different styles, this session demonstrates a few basic techniques in music composition that contribute to a strong, solid melody. Examples of melodies in television and film of how those same compositional techniques are applied to video game composition is explored. Examples and dissection of the audio in Halo, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Alice rounds out the panel."
February 11, 2003: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield music has wrapped, and includes live orchestral music recorded with top players from the Montreal Symphony and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras, Montreal Canada. Raven Shield (UbiSoft / Redstorm Entertainment), the sequel to Rainbow Six, the 1999 Action Game Of The Year (PCGamer Magazine) is expected to hit stores in March 2003 for the PC and 3rd quarter 2003 for the Xbox console.
February 11, 2003: Bill has completed the music for a new Gatorade "Propel" television commercial spot titled "Surfaces" which will be airing in a few weeks. The music featured on the Propel Flash Site is also Bill's. The Propel "Drip" TV spot also featured Bill's music.
January 8, 2003: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2002 World Aids Day Documentary is now available for viewing. Bill composed and produced the score last year for the short interactive film about the history of AIDS and the role people can play in advancing global awareness. Listen to Bill's music for this documentary film titled The Sun Valley Project.
