Pixel Symphonic

03 - Alpha Chrome Yayo

This month’s guest is Alpha Chrome Yayo, one of the composers behind 2025’s Promise Mascot Agency! We talk about his wide range of interesting instruments, how he found his way into doing the soundtrack for Promise, what it felt like to be a Yakuza fan suddenly working on a game starring Takaya Kuroda, and most importantly who his favorite mascot in Promise is. All that and more! This episode features music by Nor and Alpha Chrome Yayo. SUPPORT ACY’S WORK! ACY’s Bandcamp: https://alphachromeyayo.bandcamp.com/ ACY’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alphachromeyayo.com ACY’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlphaChromeYayo

BONUS - Ramon Braumuller

Wow, lookie here! This month you’ll be getting two episodes of Pixel Symphonic, this bonus episode today and next week’s regularly scheduled episode! In this bonus interview I sat down with Ramon Braumuller, the composer behind the gaming song of the season in Bluesky’s new favorite 90s platformer Moon Child! I asked him how he ended up working for Team Hoi, how it feels to see a game he worked on suddenly blow up over 30 years later, as well as what he’s been up to in those 30 years since. This episode features music by Nor and Ramon Braumuller. SUPPORT RAMON’S WORK! Ramon’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nombra101

02 - Chase Bethea

This month’s guest is Chase Bethea, composer for games like Aground, , On the Peril of Parrots, Sunken Stones, and more! We talk about his background in music, his endeavors to try and make soundtracks out of the sounds he feels video games are missing, the importance of testing your music in context during the development cycle, and more. This episode features music by Nor and Chase Bethea. SUPPORT CHASE’S WORK! Chase’s Bandcamp: https://chasebethea.bandcamp.com/music Chase’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chasebethea.bsky.social

01 - Peter Spezia

It’s time for the inaugural episode of a brand new outing! Pixel Symphonic is a show about video game music. We’re here to learn and talk about it with the people who make it, the people who listen to it, and everything in between. This new show will be releasing one episode a month, with a new guest each month. For my first guest it just felt right to bring on my old Original Soundchat cohost Peter Spezia. He may be retired and out of the game now, but there’s nobody else in the world I like talking about game music with more. Our conversation goes into how we got into video music through largely the same entry point, and also Peter’s favorite soundtrack from his adult years. This episode features music by Nor, Takahiro Nishi, Shogo Sakai, Masaaki Iwasaki, David Wise, Michiko Naruke, Jun Senoue, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuka Tsujioko, Kenji Ito, Jun Ishikawa, Noriyuki Iwadare, Kenichi Nishimaki, Yoko Shimomura, Shoji Meguro, and ACE.