The classical musician on working with Austin Wintory, catching Pokémon, and the link between Atari and cheese
Tina Guo is a cellist, composer and published poet. Alongside her own creations, Guo has made a name for herself performing on a wide variety of TV, movie and videogame soundtracks, including Diablo III, the Call Of Duty: Black Ops games, and Journey. More recently she has released Game On, an album of videogame covers.
What led you to create Game On?
Video gaming has always been a part of my life. My first experience happened when I moved from China to America. I was five years old, and my little brother – who was already in America – had an Atari system and we played this Tarzan game. Actually, I remember the day I first played that, I also tried cheese for the first time! After that my brother had a SNES, and we played a lot of Zelda, Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country, and the music in those games is so iconic, so that’s always stuck with me.
Anyway, I grew up and moved to LA, and I started working on a lot of scores – movie, TV and videogame soundtracks. It just kind of happened naturally, like everything fell into place. Over the past ten years I’ve released a lot of different albums – originals and covers – and I previously did an album of covers of music from TV and movies. So naturally the next thing to do was videogames.
This story is from the May 2017 edition of Edge.
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