Graham Southern Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Games:Composed music and designed sound for the game Liquidators by 1986 CL3 Studio -Nominated for a Game Audio Network Guild award for Best Sound Design for an Indie Game -Numerous positive Steam reviews with consistent praise specifically for the sound designComposed additional music for Rocket Arena (EA Games) under composer Jack Wall, and scored 2 Rocket Arena trailersSelected to compose music for Knight Errant, mobile roleplaying game by former lead artist of Dragonvale by Backflip Studios.Selected to design sound for the PC/console re-master of Nintendo DS game Lock’s Quest by Digital Continue.Selected to lead music/sound design for NYU Game Center Master’s student team thesis project, Dire. Dire was selected for NYU Incubator project and nominated to represent NYU at 2016 Game Developers Conference.Composed music for production house CoPilot Music, for its work for Bethesda Softworks for Doom 2016 trailer campaign.Film / Television / Other:Keyboardist / Orchestrator for metal band Our Dying World -Los Angeles Champions of the 2022 Battle for Wacken -Album, Hymns of Blinding Darkness has received praise from major publications such as Decibel and Metal-RulesComposed all original music for the horror film Crazy Car. -Film nominated into the 15th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival, premiering at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.Multiple cues of my music placed on the series The Contender (Epix), Paradise Hotel (Fox), and World Pet Games (Fox) through Burnett Music Group. Selected to compose music for documentary Dai’s Garden. -Film nominated into NYC’s Asian American Film Festival, Winner of Best Foreign Short at Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards.

Assisted award winning film and television composer, Megan Cavallari, in marketing and project acquisition

Warner Bros. Studios

-Assisted at the studio of award-winning composer Trevor Morris on various tasks -Edited music for use in shows such as Taken, Vikings, and other similar projects

New York, New York

-Rearranged commercial music segments into longer cues for use in Butter’s production music library-Composed for various campaigns including Advil, Humira, Dawn, Puffs, and Chick-fil-A

Santa Monica

Assisted international team of award-winning composers and audio engineers in daily operations at film score studio headed and founded by Hans Zimmer

Chicago, Il

-Categorized WMS's / Williams Interactive's music archive of 500+ tracks into easily navigable online library accessible to game development branches worldwide -Arranged separate clips of music from WMS's Yahtzee Premium Video Slot into a unified piece of music tailored to fit a promotional video for the William's Interactive online port of the game-Produced high-quality recordings of sound assets for WMS's gaming platform, Bet Cloud, utilizing professional sound studio and equipment. Edited assets for optimal implementation within game using tools such as equalization, compression, normalization etc. within Sony Sound Forge -Assisted in the setup and teardown for recording sessions in an efficient and time effective manner-Organized the sound studio and other facilities within the sound department, helping to maintain and improve upon a high-functioning work environment-Composed soundtrack for the Scientific Games summer internship program informational / promotional video. Enhanced liveliness and motivational effect of intern video through original music and sound design. Very well received by intern supervisors and coordinators of intern program, saying it was the best Scientific Games intern video they had seen so far.-Recorded narration for Scientific Games summer internship program informational / promotional video utilizing professional studio and equipment, resulting in a high sound quality in the final version of the intern video

Master'S Degree, Scoring For Film And Multimedia

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology, Minor In Music Theory/Composition

Activities and Societies: Shotokan Karate, Black Belt: Qualified as alternate to US National Team, 2008 Comedy: Stand-up comedian.

Study Abroad In Osaka, Japan