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Pivot Point explores the personal experiences of those who have made a life and career in the world of film, music and the arts. We’ll hear from industry pros about how they got started, the hurdles they overcame and the help they received along the way. Joseph’s style of interviewing reveals stories we embrace as our own, finding empathy and encouragement in the creative journey and hopefully help you move closer to your own personal Pivot Point.
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Music Respawn

Kate Remington

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WSHU Public Radio's Kate Remington combines her love of music and video games in this series of informal conversations with composers and performers of game soundtracks. Plus, there's lots of music in the interviews, so you can hear it for yourself!
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Wrel is the Lead Designer of Planetside 2. This podcast focuses on Outfit Wars, Planetside 2's premiere competitive event, which pits outfit vs. outfit in a 48 vs. 48 player conflict over the frozen Nexus sub-continent that's half chess match and half deathmatch. In addition, Wrel also chatts about life as a game dev, how to read between the lines …
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Carto is a senior systems and level designer with over a decade of experience crafting games like Defiance, H1Z1, and Planetside Arena. In this conversation, Carto shares his story of getting into game development, shares insights on H1Z1, and gives a behind the scenes look at the conception, derailment, and the shuttering of Planetside Arena. Cart…
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Snebzor is a Guild Wars 2 streamer and head goose of the skein gang. https://twitch.tv/snebzor In this podcast, Sneb explains how he applied his master's education in business and consumer behavior to growing a streaming community. He admits his shock at being accused of ableism when encouraging players to rise to the challenge of Dragon's End, and…
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Maclaine Diemer is lead composer for Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons. In this podcast, Maclaine shares how how he moved on from his dream of making it as a rock star and found the games industry. He learned about how games were made at Harmonix, where he worked on Rock Band, before moving on to ArenaNet where he got his big break as composer for Guild…
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Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons is the third expansion for Guild Wars 2. It brings us to Cantha, a mysterious continent far south across the Unending Sea, and brings with it fishing, skiffs, and a new jade-powered friend. End of Dragons features the final confrontation with the Elder Dragons of Tyria, and begs the question: what's next?…
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UWV_Preston first issued the challenge: first man to lose 50 pounds wins a steak dinner, provided by the loser. Deeg answered, then MMO INKS answered. In this podcast, the heavyweights talk about what losing 50 pounds means to them, our individual battles with depression, the challenge of managing sleep, and what we put into and in turn get out of …
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Wrel is the Lead Designer of Planetside 2 at Rogue Planet Games (RPG). He lead the design of Oshur, Planetside's first new continent since 2014, which debuted new water interactions for infantry and vehicles as well as 2nd chapter of Distant Shores story campaign. In this podcast, Wrel talks about how Oshur and its water mechanics came to be, and h…
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Camikaze78 is a Planetside 2 creator, caster, and streamer. In 2021 he casted Outfit Wars and participated in the game's official Extra Life fundraising event. In this podcast, Camikaze78 talks about his disappointment with Battlefield 2042, the move from Twitch to YouTube, how he changed his mind about Planetside's polarizing MAX suits, and shares…
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Cmdr. Cyrious is a long-time Planetside 2 content creator and community leader. After co-casting Outfit Wars in early 2021, he stepped up as community organizer for the Late Shift's invasion of Planetside 2. The events successfully showed thousands of viewers fun Planetside experiences, but weren't without their critics. In this podcast, Cyrious di…
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John DeNicola is an American songwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", for which he won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as receiving a Grammy nomination, in 1988. In 1989 he was the co-winner of ASCAP Awards' "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures" for "Time of My…
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How does one become a tech privacy attorney and a musician? How do you go to Mumbai to find your way? This is the story of Alan Chapell. Growing up on the multi-ethnic streets of Stamford, Connecticut, Alan Chapell was exposed to a multitude of music – playing piano and trumpet before the age of six and at age 15 recording with the legendary produc…
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Richard Humann is a Brooklyn-based neo-conceptual artist whose work has been included in the Venice Biennale, represented the United States in the 2017 Karachi Biennale in Pakistan, and has had multiple national and international solo gallery and museum exhibitions. Richard was born and raised in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State. He…
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Joseph met Diana at a SAG-AFTRA workshop and have been friends since. Diana is an actor, voice actor and producer. Known for her recurring roles on "The Young and the Restless" and "Days of Our Lives", she has also done a number of TV Commercials. She began working in Group ADR in 2010, on "Eureka", and has been heard on "Alphas", "Defiance", "Code…
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Bill Schnee is an internationally renowned producer, engineer, and mix master. He has received over 125 gold and platinum records and more than 50 Top 20 singles that run the gamut from Barbra Streisand to The Jacksons, Rod Stewart to Steely Dan, and Whitney Houston to Dire Straits. This is my conversation with Bill about his journey and his art. C…
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Today's guest is Nashville music producer, singer, songwriter Aaron Ruiz. Aaron is an artist who has had hundreds of songs placed in tv shows. Joseph and Aaron talk about the work it takes to stay present, dealing with negative self talk and accepting that we are not in control of whether a song is a success or not.www.aaronandandrew.comhttps://sou…
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New World launches today, but is it a WoW Killer? For that matter, what is a WoW killer? Ask social media, most would suggest it's Blizzard itself, ask a designer, even an armchair one, it's a game with better design, ask one who cherished WoW as a child, it's an experience that takes them back, but if you ask me, I say it's the next cultural revol…
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After creating World of Warcraft Classic content for 5 years, Melderon is calling it quits. He is a geneticist, research scientist, and guild leader. In this talk, Melderon explains why Burning Crusade is the best version of World of Warcraft, why Vanilla captures general interest in a way that no other expansion can, and answers the question: was …
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Games are dramatizations of typical and accepted types of violence within the wider world, or so Marshall McLuhan would have us believe. McLuhan, the philosopher of media who coined the expression "the medium is the message", predicted the world wide web almost 30 years before it was invented. McLuhan contended that nostalgia and violence are power…
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