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GAME ON! THE VIDEO GAME AND MUSIC REVOLUTION —
CARNEGIE HALL NOTABLES
PROGRAM PRESENTS
GAME ON! THE VIDEO GAME AND MUSIC REVOLUTION
A MULTIMEDIA EVENT EXPLORING VIDEO GAMES AND MUSIC
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 IN ZANKEL HALL
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Grandmaster
Flash, Alex Rigopulos, Christopher Tin,
Meghan Asha, and
Pete Wentz
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Fall Out
Boy’s Pete Wentz Moderates Discussion with:
Grandmaster Flash, Hip Hop Icon featured on
DJ Hero;
Alex Rigopulos, Co-Creator of Rock Band
and Guitar Hero;
Christopher Tin, Video Game & Film Composer; and
Meghan Asha, On-Air Technology Specialist
Exclusive Interactive Afterparty Immediately
Follows
at Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center
On
October 19, 2009 at 7:30
p.m. in Zankel Hall, the
Carnegie Hall Notables—a membership and
ticket program for music enthusiasts in their
20s and 30s—presents GAME ON! The
Video Game and Music Revolution, a
multimedia panel discussion exploring the
dynamic relationship between music and video
games. This event features a one-night-only
conversation between influential personalities
in video game music, all carving out new
territories in the future of music and
technology. It also includes multimedia
demonstrations of the newest music video games.
The discussion will be moderated by musician,
activist, and entrepreneur Pete Wentz
(Fall Out Boy), whose music is featured in the
extraordinarily popular video games Guitar
Hero and Rock Band. Joining Wentz
on the panel will be the founding father of hip
hop and featured character in DJ Hero
Grandmaster Flash, the
co-founder and CEO of Harmonix (creators of
Guitar Hero and Rock Band)
Alex Rigopulos, video game and film
composer Christopher Tin (Civilization
IV), and on-air technology specialist and
host of TMI Weekly Meghan Asha.
Immediately following the discussion, attendees
will be able to explore the relationship between
video games and music first-hand at an
interactive afterparty at the Nintendo World
store, sponsored by Marani Vodka. The evening is
generously underwritten by Pia and Jimmy Zankel.
The October 19 panel discussion and afterparty
are free for Carnegie Hall Notables members at
the Supporter level and higher. Tickets, priced
at $50 for Notables members at the Prelude level
and $75 for the general public, are also
available. For ticket information, please call
212-903-9734, e-mail
notables@carnegiehall.org,
or visit
carnegiehall.org/gameon.
GAME ON! is part of a series of annual
Carnegie Hall–presented panel discussions that
has been offered for Carnegie Hall Notables
members. Previous events have explored music's
connection to other artistic designs such as
Broadway's youth movement, film soundtracks,
fashion, and politics. Celebrity panelists have
included Academy Award-nominated film director
Wes Anderson, musicians Lou Reed, Natalie
Merchant, Moby, Wu-Tang Clan’s chief music
producer RZA, Saturday Night Live’s Ana
Gasteyer, Grammy- and Tony-Award winning
songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik,
Academy-Award nominated and Tony-Award winning
director and costume designer Julie Taymor,
fashion designer Zac Posen, Tony-Award winning
composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emmy-Award
winning Sex and the City stylist
Patricia Field.
Panelists
Pete Wentz is a musician, activist, and
entrepreneur whose music is featured in the
popular video games, Guitar Hero and
Rock Band. Wentz is the bassist and
lyricist of the Grammy Award-nominated band Fall
Out Boy, who, over the past few years, has
become a multi-platinum selling group that has
generated chart-topping hits. Building on his
past experiences as an up and coming artist,
Wentz has tenaciously sought ways to help
aspiring musicians take their careers to new
levels. In 2005, Wentz’s pursuit came to
fruition when he founded the record label
Decaydence. In just three years since its
inception, Decaydance has proved to be a
powerhouse label of the modern pop/punk/rock
movement and has released critically and
commercially successful albums by its artist
roster which includes: Gym Class Heroes, Panic
At The Disco, and Cobra Starship, among others,
most of whom were found and nurtured by Wentz.
Wentz is also an accomplished, published author,
owner of a clothing company, Clandestine
Industries and a chain of nightlife destinations
called Angels & Kings, and is the host of the
weekly radio series “Pete Wentz’s Hits & Misses”
on Sirius/XM. His latest effort is a comic book
series “Fall Out Toy Works,” inspired by the
music of Fall Out Boy’s most recent album “Folie
à Deux.”
Grandmaster Flash is a DJ, one
of the founding fathers of hip-hop, and a
featured character in the video game DJ Hero.
In the early 1970s, Joseph Saddler (Grandmaster
Flash) was living in the South Bronx studying
electrical engineering. Saddler discovered his
much deeper passion for music, while
experimenting with his father’s vinyl during his
adolescence. The career of DJ Grandmaster Flash
began in the Bronx with neighborhood block
parties that, in essence, launched the hip-hop
genre. His knowledge of audio equipment led him
to an idea that would revolutionize music: the
turntable as instrument. He was the first DJ to
physically lay his hands on the vinyl and
manipulate it in backward and forward motions,
when most DJs simply handled the record by the
edges, put down the arm, and let it play.
Grandmaster Flash also invented the Quick Mix
Theory, which included techniques such as the
double-back, back-door, back-spin, and phasing.
His template grew to include “cuttin’,” which,
in turn, spawned scratching. By the end of the
1970s, Flash had started another trend that
became a hallmark of hip-hop: emcees rapping
over his beats. Before long, he started his own
group, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
In 2007, the rock and roll establishment
recognized Flash when Grandmaster Flash and the
Furious Five became the first hip-hop group ever
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Flash has been the recipient of many awards,
including VH1 Hip Hop Honors; The Icon Award
from BET; The Lifetime Achievement Award from
the RIAA; and Bill Gates’s Vanguard Award.
Alex Rigopulos is the
Co-Founder and CEO of Harmonix, the creators of
Guitar Hero and Rock Band. As
a professionally trained composer, Rigopulos
brought a love of music to Harmonix from the
very beginning. He co-founded the company in
1995 because he wanted to invent new ways for
non-musicians to experience the unique joy that
comes from making music, regardless of talent.
Rigopulos is also an avid gamer and has been
playing games since age three, when his parents
brought home a Magnavox Odyssey console. He also
enjoys rocking out on the drums and occasionally
performs with his brothers in their rock band,
Yeast. He earned a Bachelor of Science in music
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and his Master of Science from the computer
music group of the MIT Media Laboratory. Alex
says, “Playing music is one of the most purely
pleasurable experiences that life has to offer,
and Harmonix exists to make that experience
accessible to everyone.”
Christopher Tin is a composer
for video games, film, and advertising. He has
composed music for the video game franchise
Civilization, international ad campaigns
(Puma and Gap), and a major blockbuster film (X2:
X-Men United). Educated at Stanford and
Oxford Universities as well as the Royal College
of Music, Tin is a former Fulbright Scholar and
recipient of a Sundance Institute Fellowship. In
addition to his scoring work, he co-developed
the startup sound for Microsoft’s Surface
operating system, and his Garage Band demo music
is found on each new Macintosh computer. His
theme song “Baba Yetu” for the video game
Civilization IV achieved crossover status
when the sheet music became the second-highest
seller for Alfred Publishing and subsequently
became the most performed piece of video game
music. Featured on the concert tour Video
Games Live, “Baba Yetu” has received
performances by the National Symphony Orchestra
and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, among others.
Building on this success, Tin released his debut
album Calling All Dawns—a
twelve-movement song cycle fusing world and
classical music. The album features a new
recording of “Baba Yetu” with the Grammy-winning
Soweto Gospel Choir, as well as performances by
Dulce Pontes, Frederica von Stade, Anonymous 4,
Sussan Deyhim, and others, accompanied by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Meghan Asha is an on-air
technology specialist for NBC and Fox News,
founder of NonSociety.com, host of TMI
Weekly, and a tech-focused blogger. Born
and raised in the heart of Silicon Valley, upon
graduating with honors from the University of
Southern California, Asha’s career began in
finance at a tech-focused hedge fund. In January
2008, she decided to follow her passion for
gadgets by attending the Consumer Electronics
Show. After this experience, Asha infamously
told an interviewer that she wanted to "bring
sexy back to tech!" Convinced that the
world—especially young women—needed an
unconventional approach to technology, Asha
decided that her enthusiastic, zany attitude
could pique others’ interest enough to make tech
a way of life. In April 2008, she formed
NonSociety.com, along with her two business
partners and best friends, style blogger Mary
Rambin, and media personality Julia Allison. In
September 2008, Asha, along with Rambin and
Allison, partnered with Next New Networks to
produce and co-host a popular internet chat
show, TMI Weekly. In the past year,
Asha has covered events like Mercedes Benz
Fashion Week, The World Economic Forum in Davos,
DLD in Munich, Glamour Women of the Year Awards,
Le Web, MacWorld, and the Consumer Electronics
Show. Asha regularly does commentary for Fox
News, CBS, CW, CNET, and The Today Show.
She’s also been featured in the Los Angeles
Times, Page Six Magazine, New
York Observer, Wired Magazine,
CNET, Elle, and Style.com.
The Carnegie Hall Notables is a
membership group specifically created for music
enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s. The Notables
program celebrates music through intimate
discussions with world-famous composers and
musicians, concerts, private performances, and
exclusive Notables-only social gatherings
throughout New York City. Members are invited to
experience all types of music, traditional and
contemporary. Contributions to the Notables
support the vital music education programs of
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, which
annually serves over 115,000 children, students,
teachers, parents, young music professionals,
and adults in the New York City metropolitan
area, across the United States, and around the
world. Visit
carnegiehall.org/notables
for more information.
Bank of America is the Proud Season
Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.
Event
Information
Monday, October 19, 2009
GAME ON! The Video Game and Music Revolution
7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion at Zankel
Hall
Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy),
musician, activist, and entrepreneur whose
music is featured in Guitar Hero
and Rock Band
Grandmaster Flash, founding
father of hip-hop and featured character in
DJ Hero
Alex Rigopulos, co-founder
and CEO of Harmonix, the creators of
Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Christopher Tin, video game
(Civilization IV) and film composer
Meghan Asha, on-air
technology specialist (NBC and Fox News) and
host of TMI Weekly
9:30 p.m. Afterparty at The Nintendo
World Store
Sponsored by Marani Vodka
10 Rockefeller Plaza, 48th Street between
Fifth and Sixth avenues
The panel discussion and afterparty is free
for Notables members at the Supporter level
and higher. Tickets, priced at $50 for
Notables members at the Prelude level and
$75 for the general public, are also
available. For ticket information, please
call 212-903-9734, or visit
carnegiehall.org/gameon.
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