Steve Horowitz (born Steven Michael Horowitz on October 3, 1964) is an American composer, performing musician, producer,

audio engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

, author, and teacher from

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, New York. Horowitz is the bassist for the experimental music group, The Code International, who has been creating and releasing album-format music since 1993. He is best known as the

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composer, for the

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-winning

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documentary film, ''

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''.

Education

Horowitz attended Berkeley High School in

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. He received his BFA in music composition at the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

, studying alongside or under the mentorship of composers such as

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, Michael Jon Fink and Stephen "Lucky" Mosko. Since 2017, Horowitz has been an active lecturer of music composition and music for visual media (games, film and television) at

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...

. He has spoken on the subject of music composition and video game audio at various American universities including

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and CalArts.

Game Audio

Horowitz is a long-standing audio director of

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, beginning his relationship with

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in the year 2000, as an in-house composer for Nickelodeon Online. In 2004, Horowitz became a contributing member of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group, developing curriculum and procedure to be used in graduate and undergraduate interactive audio programs. In 2013, under partnership with fellow CalArts alumni Scott Looney, Horowitz founded the Game Audio Institute. The venture was created to develop and propagate video game audio-focused educational framework, and materials to private individuals and various

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universities, respectively. The following year, the duo authored the interactive audio textbook ''The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games''.

Personal life

Horowitz most recently resided with his wife and son in San Francisco, California.

Awards

Horowitz's creative contributions have made him recipient of various awards: * 1997:

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in support of Todd Philips for his role as audio engineer on the compilation album '' True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe''. * 2003:

Webby Award The Webby Awards are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories include ...

for audio direction of the Nick.com website design. * 2003: Broadcast Design award for audio direction on ''Max And Ruby Toy Bowling''. * 2003: Broadcast Design Award for audio direction on a

Wonder Pets! ''Wonder Pets!'' is an American educational animated children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to ...

interactive media project, entitled ''Wonder Pets Save The Day''. * 2017: Kidscreen Award for audio direction on

Digital's ''Nickelodeon: Code a Character''. * 2020" Kidscreen Award for music composition and audio direction on Nickelodeon's ''Do Not Touch''

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mobile game.

Discography

As Steve Horowitz

As Steve Horowitz and The Code Ensemble

As Steve Horowitz and The Virtual Code

As The Code International

Gameography

Filmography

References

External links

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