Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is a musician, DJ, and entertainer best known for remixing video game music. He is the owner of Tiny Waves, a record label / events company / artist advocacy group committed to empowering artists and community building. Ben is also the music director for the popular YouTube series "The Completionist", and his alignment is squarely Chaotic Good.
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LyricWulf
LyricWulf is a self-taught pianist who arranges video game and anime music into instructional videos along with sheet music for piano. He’s well-known for the visual effects of his videos and the accuracy of his sheets. You’ll often find him calling himself a dog while he live streams himself making his arrangements.
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Natalie Tenenbaum
Natalie Tenenbaum is a pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, music producer and orchestrator working on Broadway (MEAN GIRLS), video games (RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2), TV (NBC) and as an indie artist based in New York. Natalie's last appearance at MAGFest was with the 8 Bit Big Band who she performs and records with frequently.
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Smart Game Piano
Smart Game Piano is an online resource that helps people achieve mental wellness and strength through learning piano with video game and anime music. My mission is to get everyone to play piano and to be a part of a community that loves nerdy music. The world is encouraging us to be lazy and complacent and the Smart Game Piano students, the Smartists (Smart + Artists), are fighting back against that. We are going to be the creative forces in the world in order to make it and ourselves better.
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Paypal: skjerstadmusic@gmail.com
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8-Bit Music Theory
8-Bit, the creator of the 8-Bit Music Theory YouTube Channel, makes videos picking apart just what makes our favourite video game music so great. A mixture of technical music theory analysis and broad musical observations aim to provide musical insights to beginners and experts alike!
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Matt Kenyon
Matt Kenyon is a VGM fan, composer, and host of the podcast Composer Code, which seeks to demystify the world of video game composition by interviewing some of the best in the industry.
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Grant Kirkhope
Grant Kirkhope is a BAFTA nominated composer who has created the soundtracks to video games that have sold in excess of 30 million copies. From “Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle” to “Ghostbusters”, “GoldenEye 007” to “Banjo-Kazooie”, “Perfect Dark” to “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning” and “Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth” to “Viva Piñata”, he has shown his versatility in being able to compose music in a huge variety of styles. Now residing in Los Angeles he is represented by Cheryl Tiano and Kevin Korn at The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.
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Sunny & the Black Pack
A world class pianist, producer, vocalist and entrepreneur, Sunny takes the reigns of Black Media and pushes the team to their utmost potential. His incredibly authentic personality is refreshing and it's obvious that he has genuine care for his audience. You can catch him on Twitch, YouTube and Reddit where he releases music videos, Super Mario Maker 2, Call of Duty and League of Legends videos.
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Venmo: @BlackMedia
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Ryukahr
Ryukahr is a gaming and music creator who specializes in difficult platforming, speedruns and other forms of gaming content. Well-known for his insanely-challenging Mario Maker videos, there’s not a kaizo or hot garbage level Ryu won’t tackle.
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Elisa Melendez
Elisa was born and raised in Puerto Rico amid mofongo, Mario, and musical theater. Shortly after moving to Miami, FL, she developed a passion for singing, songwriting, and acting (like an absolute dork) which she parlayed into her eventual pop-rock band, Crimson. Elisa’s personal experiences as a woman rock musician and her longstanding passion for video games, merged to guide her research on gender, representation, and music games—earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Sociology in 2018.Elisa took her findings to the video game industry, where she’s worn many hats from freelance writer to community manager to broadcasting and content producer to voice actress (Tyreen Calypso, Borderlands 3).
Nowadays, you (y'all) can find her in Texas writing music, creating content, watching bad movies and rolling for initiative as part of the FilmJoy YouTube channel (Deep Dive/Hot Quest), and teaching whenever and however she can.
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Danielle McRae
Danielle McRae is a Voice Actress for anime, animation and video games including League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Skullgirls, Neptunia, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Monster Prom, Neptunia, Pokemon Journeys, Kemono Friends and much more.
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Paypal: daniellemcrae86@gmail.com
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Robbie Benson
Robbie "Gwobs" Benson began playing piano at the age of 2, filming an EarthBound film adaptation at 7, and escorting 80 MAGWest attendees to Taco Bravo in the middle of the night at 31. Founder and bandleader of Super Soul Bros, Robbie has also performed alongside members of Tower of Power, Santana, Frank Zapa and the Doobie Brothers. Most recently he's explored his creativity as the artist "Gwobs," producing game soundtracks, lofi ("Chill Beats To File Your Taxes To"), live streaming performance art, and curating The Gwobs Cereal Club.
MAGwobs is thrilled to be part of MAGWest 2020.
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