Geoffrey Day is a video game composer that has become a youtube sensation for his DOOM/Argent Metal remixes of game music. He recently composed for Atomic Heart and Viscerafest.
SOCIAL MEDIA
TWITTER-@geoffplaysguit
INSTAGRAM - @geoffreydaymusic
YOUTUBE - @GeoffPlaysGuitar
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/geoffplaysguitar
#atomicheart #viscerafest #doometernal
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Geoffrey Initially Thought Mundfish Contacting Him Was Spam
02:37 - Geoffrey Gets Spam Collaboration Emails Everyday
04:10 - Pitch From Mundfish For Atomic Heart
06:04 - Geoff Was A Given A List Of Russian Songs To Pick To Remix/Composition Of Russian Songs
07:45 - Evolution Of Zyvozdnoe Leto Track
10:51 - Deadline To Submit Songs
13:19 - Who Did The Mixing On The Game
14:13 - Geoff’s Interaction With Mick Gordon
15:10 - People Mistaking Geoff’s Music As Mick Gordon’s/Admiration For Mick Gordon
17:40 - Overlap Of Composing For Viscerafest/Burnout
20:07 - Imposter Syndrome/Negative Comments
23:20 - How Geoff’s Work As A Software Engineer And People Manager Transferred To His Music Career
26:34 - Lockdowns Are The Reason Geoff Ended Up On His Current Path/How Geoff Started Doing DOOM Game Covers
30:41 - Dangers Of AI Music Technology
33:00 - Kiwi’s Thoughts On AI/Geoff Used Moises To Get Stems To Compose On Atomic Heart
34:10 - Cleaning Up The Stems From Moises Before Sampling
35:25 - Seeing The Flaws In The Stems The Original Russian Songs/Modernising Vocals
36:10 - Mixing References While Composing/Fan Remastering Arlekino/Metal Vs Pop Vocals
37:50 - Geoff’s Patreon Perks
39:09 - How Geoff Decides What To Do DOOM Remixes Of
41:35 - How The Super Metroid Ridley DOOM Remix Came About/Skyrim DOOM Mod
43:30 - Working With A Team On Covers
44:00 - Viscerafest & Atomic Heat Caused Geoff To Spend Less Time On His Youtube Channel
46:04 - Geoff Loves Working With Technology & A Team
47:20 - Geoffs Schedule
48:45 - Always Being In A Creative State
50:14 - How Geoff Deals With Ear Fatigue & Writers Block
51:45 - Suffering From Insomnia
52:45 - Geoff Would Like To Have Routine/Missing Working In A Office
55:42 - Needing More Time
57:45 - Not Being Able To Relax/Being A Workaholic
59:45 - Why Geoff Doesn’t Publicly Stream Games
1:01:28 - How Geoff Destresses/Getting Out Of The House
1:03:48 - Time Management
1:04:10 - Where Argent Metal Can Still Evolve
1:07:00 - Mick Gordon Requested For Geoffrey Day To Cover Crazy Bus Song
1:08:30 - Vol 2 Soundtrack/Atomic Heart OST Speculation
1:11:10 - Closing Comments/Geoff’s Youtube Channel Plateauing
1:12:20 - Where To Follow Geoffrey Day
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