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Marc Sylvan
Marc Sylvan is an English composer and sound designer. Television credits include ''The Masked Singer'', ''The Million Pound Drop'', ''Pointless'', ''Total Wipeout'', '' Tipping Point'', '' All Together Now'', ''Cannonball'', ''Family Fortunes'', ''Alesha's Street Dance Stars'', ''The Bank Job'', ''Golden Balls, 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow'', ''Divided'' and ''Richard Osman's House of Games''. His work on the sci-fi short ‘Embryo’ won ‘Best Sound Design’ at ''Vision Festival'' in 2005, which led to collaborations with Beavis & Butthead animator James Dean Conklin and Shrek animator ''Lee Lanier''. Marc has often worked with award-winning video game composer Richard Jacques on game releases including ''Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing'', '' The Club'' and ''Virtua Tennis''. Other collaborations include working with former ''The Rakes'' guitarist Matthew Swinnerton under the name 'Buro'. Marc is published by ''Faber Music'' and is also a director and on the media executiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Osman's House Of Games
''Richard Osman's House of Games'' is a British quiz show produced by Banijay (owners of Endemol Shine UK), a branch of Remarkable Television for the BBC. The show is hosted by Richard Osman. It is played on a weekly basis, with four "celebrities" playing on five consecutive days to win daily prizes, and the weekly prize of being crowned as "House of Games" champion. Points are accrued depending on where each celebrity finishes on each day and the points are doubled on Friday's show. During filming for series 6, Richard celebrated his (and the show's) 500th episode. Format Osman sits on a chair to the left of the screen, while the four celebrities sit on adjoining chairs. Osman hits a button on his table, activating a round generator, which is displayed on a big screen. He then explains what the round is about and in what format it will take place. For instance, whether it is a buzzer round, a pairs round or one where the players require use of their tablet computers. Five rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Of Birth Missing (living People)
Place may refer to: Geography * Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population ** Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Often implies a dead end (street) or cul-de-sac * Place, based on the Cornish word "plas" meaning mansion * Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement ** Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government * Location (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area Placenames * Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France * Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia * Place (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey * Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States * Place House, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall * Place House, a 19th-century mansion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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English Composers
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ivors Academy
The Ivors Academy (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors – BASCA) is one of the largest professional associations for music writers in Europe. The academy exists to support, protect, and campaign for the interests of songwriters, lyricists, and composers. It represents music writers of all genres and has approximately 2000 members. History The Composers Guild of Great Britain was founded in 1944 to represent classical music composers, with Ralph Vaughan Williams elected as its first president. The Songwriters' Guild of Great Britain, later known as The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors was founded in 1947 by Ivor Novello, Sir Alan Herbert, Eric Coates, Haydn Wood, Richard Addinsell, among others for the encouragement and protection of British popular music, with Eric Maschwitz acting as the first Vice Chair, and Chairman in 1948, and again between 1954 and 1958. The Association of Professional Composers was founded in 1976 by Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber Music
Faber Music is a British sheet music publisher best known for contemporary classical music. It also publishes music tutor books, and in 2005 acquired popular music publisher International Music Publications. Faber Music has close relations to the book publisher Faber and Faber. Faber's subsidiary Rights Worldwide Ltd offers copyright administration services to composers and Tv and film production companies. History Faber Music Ltd was founded in 1965 as a sister company to Faber and Faber. Its foundation was led by the composer Benjamin Britten who needed a quality publisher to promote and distribute his compositions. ''The Times'' newspaper praised the newly founded company as "the new champion of quality in music publishing". Faber Music incorporated as a limited company in 1992, changed its name to International Music Publications Limited in 1992 and became Faber Music Ltd in 2011. It is wholly owned by Geoffrey Faber Holdings Ltd. Catalogue Faber Music counts among its publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rakes
The Rakes were an English post-punk band formed in London in 2003. Their first album ''Capture/Release'' released in 2005, received a nine out of ten review in the ''NME'' and was rated 13th best album of the year in the same paper. The band cited in their influences the Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Pulp. The band disbanded in October 2009, after six years. History The Rakes formed in 2002. Their debut album, ''Capture/Release'', spawned the singles "22 Grand Job", "Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)", and "Retreat". Several of their singles appeared in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart and ''Capture/Release'' reached No. 32 in the UK Albums Chart. The final single release from ''Capture/Release'', "All Too Human", was released in the UK on 27 February 2006 and reached their best chart position (No. 22). The Rakes' second album, ''Ten New Messages'', was released by V2 Records on 19 March 2007. This album was produced by Jim Abiss (who has also worked with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtua Tennis 2009
''Virtua Tennis 2009'' (''Power Smash: Live Match!'' in Japan) is a 2009 video game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Sega. It is part of the ''Virtua Tennis'' series, following ''Virtua Tennis 3.'' Overview ''Virtua Tennis 2009'' includes World Tour Mode and includes a fully integrated online ranking system. All new create-a-player options give the gamer the ability to create anyone. The game features more than 40 different courts to play on, including locations such as Dubai and Shanghai, etc. Mini-games are back in this iteration, with 12 court games, including new entries: Pot Shot, Pirate Wars, Block Buster, Count Mania, Zoo Feeder, and Shopping Dash. The Wii version of ''Virtua Tennis 2009'' is the first game released on that platform to support the Wii MotionPlus feature, utilizing it to enable more advanced gestures, Features ''Virtua Tennis 2009'' enhanced all of the features from VT3 although some are mostly kept the same: * New create-a-player system is impro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Club (video Game)
''The Club'' is a third-person shooter video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Sega. The story of the game centers on The Club, an underground blood sport controlled by a wealthy elite who place their bets on who will survive the gladiatorial-style combat. Plot The player chooses from a roster of characters who are forced to compete in The Club, a modern form of gladiatorial combat. They are under the watchful eye of a middle-aged man known as The Secretary. There are 8 characters to choose from; each with its own attributes and ending: * Dragov: A Russian convict who is rescued by The Club after attempting an escape across the Siberian tundra. He is the strongest of the competitors, but also the slowest. The game ends with Dragov escaping The Club compound through a helicopter, killing the guards in the process. * Renwick: A former New York detective, who lost his job after repeated attempts to locate The Club, and continued the search on his own. He is fairl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
is a 2010 kart racing video game, produced for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS (February 23, 2010), and Microsoft Windows (March 3, 2010), featuring characters from multiple List of Sega video game franchises, Sega franchises. The game is the third title in the ''Sega All-Stars'' series, preceded by ''Sega Superstars Tennis''. A mobile game, mobile version was developed by Gameloft, and released for iOS in June 2011, as a paid download. A version for OS X was released by Feral Interactive in April 2013. The game received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, ''Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed'', was released in 2012, featuring more characters and representing a wide-variety of Sega-owned franchises. Gameplay The game is a mascot kart racing game, similar to other games in its genre like ''Mario Kart'', ''Konami Krazy Racers'' and ''Crash Team Racing''. Players can choose to race as one of 20 characters from various Sega franchises such as ''Sonic the Hedg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Lanier
Lee Lanier is an American 3D computer animator and the author of nine books for the 3D modeling software package Maya and the digital compositing software packages After Effects, Fusion, and Nuke. He served as an instructor for animation for the Academy of Art University and Gnomon School of Visual Effects. He has recorded visual effects video tutorials for lynda.com and The Foundry. After working for Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, Lanier worked at PDI/DreamWorks in the San Francisco bay area—where he served as modeler and lighter for the movies ''Shrek'' and ''Antz''. Next, he moved to Boulder City, Nevada where Lee formed his own company, BeezleBug Bit LLC. Lanier's computer-animated short films have played at over 200 film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide. ''Millennium Bug'' won the Mike Gribble Peel of Laughter Award at the 1998 Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Silver Jury Award at the 1999 Chicago Underground F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
