spincrus

Hey Jerry, you're actually one of my three favorite video game music composers (along with Inon Zur and Andreas Waldetoft).

One of my most favorite pieces you've composed is Magic City from SimCity 3000. I actually had it as my phone ringtone for a while (couple of years back, actually when the first phones that could play MP3 for ringtones came out).

It's very hard and costly to get a live orchestra to perform most of these stuff, so I'm assuming you also use some sort of software to compose the final piece.

If so, what software do you use?

Thanks!

As a Turk, I highly sympathize with you. Although I haven't witnessed the era where there were huge lines for a stick of butter, or the two military coups we had in 1960 and 1980, I've heard enough stories of extreme street violence before the army intervened (coup is never a good thing, but here you can find a lot of people supporting them as well as opposition).

But I'm 30, and I've lived through the economic depression of 2001 with 70+% overnight interest rates and extreme devaluation, and most recently, eye-witnessed the police brutality and absolute media silence for the first couple of days during the massive Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. I highly sympathize and know how frustrating it is that these stuff don't get media coverage, because of intense pressure from the government.

This next comment will lead to my question: I've witnessed last summer how the police brutality (we were "lucky" to only have 5 deaths, if one can put death into the context of luck to begin with) has unified people from different political beliefs. It was a first for me to see communists, social democrats, leftists, liberals, nationalists, extreme rightists, secularists, extreme secularists, atheists, and even some leftist-Islamist groups taking a stance against the government side by side, gathering in the squares with their flags and "standard bearers" standing next to each other (these were the groups killing each other pre 1980 that lead to the coup, mind you).

How much of a unity have you seen up until now with regards to that? Can the protesters be categorized under a single wing of the political spectrum, or is it as diverse? I'm pretty sure it's a bunch of different sub-groups of political units that the students identify themselves in, but can they be generalized as "left" or "right", or is it just a complete and somewhat balanced mixture of both these spheres?

Thank you and I hope all the best for you guys, stand firm, stay alive, these days will pass I assure you.

It's the caterpillar eyebrows.

Also check out his official biography: http://www.jerrymartinmusic.com/bio.php

Long time listener here, love you guys, etc. etc. etc.

Quick question: in one of the shows I've seen you, you turned your back at the audience while performing. I think it was to send the audience a message, like, you were annoyed for some reason.

What gets on your nerves when it comes to audiences?