“One of the fun things about it is: the games are so goofy and so silly; but the music can sometimes, we can almost give it a serious tone occasionally. The contrast of that can be compelling as well, so it’s that balance where the music can get as goofy as the jokes are sometimes, but sometimes it’s funnier to play it super straight with the music. ”
"Get out, and go to things you wouldn't necessarily think you'd want to go do, because it will make you better just by having a bigger rolodex of ideas in your brain."
"It was...a great honour to be picking up the torch for two of the most beloved entertainment franchises from my own youth."
"Evil and crazy are two of my favorite things to play, so DeSinge was a special treat for me."
Talking with TalesOfMonkeyIsland.net about my role as DeSinge in Tales of Monkey Island.
"Occasionally I'll write something, or start something, and it just doesn't quite go in the direction I was intending, so I'll usually set it aside. More often than not I'll end up finding a spot for it later in the season, though...I'll end up using it somewhere."
"Oftentimes I’m just unleashed and left to my own devices—which can be a lot of fun for me."
Talking with Jack Butler at Cultural Zest about the first two season of Sam & Max.
"Believe it or not, Wallace actually had a 99.9% original score. I did make and record a transcription of the main theme for the credits sequences, but everything else in that score was all newly composed and produced for the games."
Julian Kwasneski and I talk about Bay Area Sound with Mixnmojo.com
"Season two was even more fun than season one, partly because of all the stylistic variety it afforded me, but also because I think it did generally veer more toward the dark-side of the universe, and that is always musically appealing to me."
Talking with Jayson Napolitano at Original Sound Version about the soundtrack cd for the second season of Sam & Max.
"Even though the musical genres jump around a bit, you can bet there will be guitar, mandolin, violin, banjo, harmonica, and jaw harp in most of the cues."
Talking with Mixnmojo.com about my early work on the Bone Games.
"Though the entity known as Bay Area Sound (www.basound.com) has been around since 2000, the roots of its principals, Julian Kwasneski and Jared Emerson-Johnson, go back much further."