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OUR EPIC GAME MUSIC event - Helix Collective’s 10-piece ensemble performs game music to stunning video of game play and art from the globally popular Assassin’s Creed and Riot Games to revolutionary indie games. The music was created by a roster of BIPOC and women composers with some of the biggest talents in video game music today. Attendees will travel through the musical worlds of games like Assassin’s Creed Liberation, set in 18th Century French Louisiana, Telling Lies with a 21st Century FBI agent piecing together a mystery and Ancient China in Bladed Fury. Helix will celebrate with Riot Games’ Hop On - Lunar Revel Cinematic, fight the undead in Zombie Rollerz, unravel the mysteries of the past in Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War, save the land of Etheria in Dungeon Defenders, survive the horrors of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and learn how to wield magic in the Stardander School for Witches. The concert will be a sound exploration of the individual worlds of each game. Hosting the Start Screen panel discussion on music for video games is Jennifer Miller Hammel, host of the morning show and the Arcade stream for Classical California KUSC. PROGRAM Society Suite from Assassin’s Creed Liberation (Ubisoft), composer, Winifred Phillips Hop On - Lunar Revel 2023 Cinematic (Riot Games), composer, George Shaw Music from Bladed Fury (NExT Studios), composer, Edwin Wendler Music from Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War (Winking Works), composer, Sid De La Cruz Dungeon Defenders Suite (Chromatic Games), composer, Afshin Cohen Telling Lies Suite (Sam Barlow and Furious Bee), composer Nainita Desai Amnesia Suite from Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (The Chinese Room), composer Jessica Curry Zombie Rollerz Suite (Zing Games), composer Min He Suite from Stardander School for Witches (Fancy Fish Games), composer Chase Bethea HELIX COLLECTIVE Helix Collective are classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold. From crossover dance music, to storytelling, to film, television, and video game music, the Los Angeles-based ensemble takes the best of classical chamber music and makes it the life of the party. Variety Magazine praised Helix Collective’s musical range moving from “moody urgency and edgy chamber-music sound” to the “sweetly romantic evoking wide-open spaces.” Helix “has a little something for everyone: those who like their classics straight up, with a contemporary edge to it, or with populist appeal.” Called “dizzyingly virtuosic with exquisite musicianship and world-class range” by The Free Times and praised for “beyond-the-ordinary programming.” Like the double helix, the ensemble is rearrangeable, flexible, and fuses the DNA of classical music into worlds where it’s never gone before. www.helixcollective.org