Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War - Composer, Jack Wall

Sam speaks with composer, Jack Wall about his recent work on Call
of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, working through Covid-19, how it
compares to working on other entries to the franchise, how
different it was to working on Mass Effect, and more!


"Jack Wall is an ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA nominated composer
best known for his rich, cinematic scores found within popular
video game franchises such as Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War,
Black Ops II, III, & IV, Mass Effect I & II, the Myst
series, Jade Empire and several other franchises winning multiple
awards for his work. Most recently Wall scored the highly
anticipated next-gen entry in the blockbuster Call of Duty
series, Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War and the supernatural
drama television series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments on
Disney’s Freeform TV. He has also written additional music score
for numerous other TV series including the fantasy drama series
Reign on the CW and Emerald City on NBC as well as scoring the
hi-octane action film Hard Target 2 available on Netflix.


Wall was co-founder of The Game Audio Network Guild and is a
frequent speaker/instructor at various educational institutions
such as Columbia College, USC, UCLA, Expressions Center for New
Media, The Los Angeles Recording School and Berklee College in
Boston.


Continuing to raise the bar for emotional, performance-driven
scores at the highest level, Wall’s repertoire encompasses a
diverse range of musical styles and influences: from ethereal
ambience, choral crescendos and heavy tribal orchestra to
traditional Asian, Middle-Eastern, Eastern European
instrumentation, futuristic electronic soundscapes and big band
jazz recorded with the world’s top musicians. For more
information, visit www.jackwall.net."


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this episode.


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