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Press/Selected Interviews

  • SCHOOL OF SOUND – JAMES HANNIGAN IN CONVERSATION
  • 11 things we learned from new Terry Pratchett doc ‘Escape to the Discworld’
  • VIDEO: Cue the Music — Excerpt from “Escape to the Discworld Documentary”
  • AUDIO: BBC Radio interview
  • VIDEO: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs, Kat Dennings and James Hannigan discuss Sandman Act II
  • New York Comic-Con 2020: The Sound of The Sandman – with Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs, James Hannigan, James McAvoy and Kevin Smith.
  • ASCAP interview: The Evolution of Screen Music
  • Evil Genius 2 Interview: The Scottish Sun
  • VIDEO: James Hannigan, Richard Jacques and Olivier Deriviere at Screen Music Connect
  • Evil Genius 2 listed in Scala Radio/The Console’s Top 5 Soundtracks of 2021 
  • High Scores: A Composer’s Passion for Arcade Gaming (Article by James Hannigan)
  • AI’s Hollow Harmony (Blog by James Hannigan)
  • James Hannigan returns for Evil Genius 2 (The Sixth Axis)
  • Music Radar interview
  • INTERVIEW: PRS For Music
  • Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman: Act III’ Surprise-Released (Variety)
  • gamesindustry.biz article: Challenging Videogame Music Tropes
  • Kevin Smith and James Hannigan on the role of music in The Sandman
  • Interview: The Sixth Axis
  • The Sandman – “A Significant Audio Milestone” (The Times)
  • The Sandman – New York Times review
  • Advance to the Next Level: How Video Games Are Changing Classical Music (The Times)
  • How William Gibson’s long-lost Alien 3 script became 2019’s most intriguing drama (The Verge)
  • Evil Genius 2: Rebellion interviews James Hannigan (Part 2)
  • VIDEO: James joins Screen Music Connect panel on interactive music (VIDEO courtesy of BASCA)
  • Interview with The Gamer
  • Evil Genius 2: Rebellion interviews James Hannigan (Part 1)
  • GAME MUSIC CONNECT (Events legacy website)
  • SCREEN MUSIC CONNECT (Event legacy website)
  • Laced Records interview with James Hannigan: RuneScape’s Orchestral Renaissance. 
  • EGX Rezzed Panel, 2019, London: Listen here.
  • VIDEO: RuneScape, the record-breaking MMO, records at Abbey Road. Watch the recording of: Coming of the Light, Harmony, A Hero’s Return and the RuneScape Theme.
  • How Do Audio Maestros Engineer Video Game Music?
  • VIDEO: Audiokinetic Interactive Music Symposium 2018
  • RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection now available via iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon and Spotify. CD & Vinyl available from Laced Records.
  • “Changing our Tune” – DEVELOP magazine’s first audio feature – by James Hannigan
  • Classic FM report on Screen Music Connect 2018
  • RuneScape Live – The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra to perform music from RuneScape.
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate released – featuring Art Academy tracks by James Hannigan
  • The Independent (GameCity Concert)
  • BAFTA Guru ‘Conversations With Composers’  Interview at the Albert Hall
  • Games Radar interview
  • James joins panel at Audiokinetic Wwise Symposium in London
  • Time+Space talk to James Hannigan about upcoming Screen Music Connect. 
  • Selected Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (VG) Soundtrack Reviews: 1 / 2 / 3
  • James Hannigan – GameCity Nottingham Concert (G.A.N.G. report)
  • Campus Party Italia with John Broomhall, James Hannigan, Jesper Kyd.
  • Develop Conference 2018: James Hannigan to join panel with Olivier Deriviere.
  • James Hannigan to talk at the 2018 BASCA Media Composer Conference
  • Audio drama ‘Alien: Sea of Sorrows’ released. First review.
  • AUDIO: BBC World Service interview
  • Read James’s 3-part article on VGM for Classic FM Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (2014)
  • VIDEO: Recording for Transformers at Abbey Road Studios with the Philharmonia
  • Classic FM articles, by James Hanniga: CLASSIC FM 1 | CLASSIC FM 2 | CLASSIC FM 3
  • UNDERSTANDING VIDEOGAME MUSIC (TIM SUMMERS; FOREWORD BY JAMES HANNIGAN)
  • ARCHIVE: BBC interview with James: “Magical Challenge of Games Music”
  • PRS For Music/M Magazine interview
  • James talks to the Sunday Times
  • Music Radar interviews James Hannigan
  • In conversation at the Albert Hall, with Bafta Guru
  • VIDEO: A look back at the interactive music system at work in 2003’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Republic: The Revolution’
  • Balancing Musicality With Interactive Music – M Magazine
  • Game Music Connect event gallery
  • Read James’s foreword to Tim Summers’ new book, Understanding Video Game Music, out now from Cambridge University Press.
  • MUSE interview  with James
  • FORBES: James Hannigan talks Transformers and Arcade Cabinets
  • VIDEO: Classic FM interviews James
  • Conversations with Composers: BAFTA to Celebrate Composer James Hannigan
  • Game Informer interview
  • James endorses Reelcrafter.com
  • Audio Media on Game Music Connect 2015
  • Fabfilter adds James as a featured artist
  • PLAYLIST: The best (and weirdest) covers of ‘Red Alert 3 Theme: Soviet March’
  • James talks to Classic FM about orchestras in games
  • Recording Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One with the Philharmonia
  • Annual event ‘Game Music Connect’ announced
  • James Hannigan at Classic FM
  • VIDEO: James’s music performed at ‘Games & Symphonies’
  • MCV: Why Classic FM is backing Game Music Connect
  • Interview with ‘Film and Game Composers’
  • ‘Bloody Disgusting’ interviews James Hannigan on Dead Space 3
  • Recording for RuneScape 3 with The Slovak Symphony Orchestra
  • ‘Meet the composers’ (Gamespot)
  • VIDEO: James interviewed for ‘BEEP’ movie. Available now from here.
  • Soundcast interview
  • VGM Online reviews James Hannigan and Richard Jacques at the Barbican
  • Bafta announces James Hannigan event at The Royal Albert Hall
  • James interviewed for BBC Documentary ‘Bleep Bleep Bloop’
  • VGM Online talks to James
  • James wins an IFMCA (International Film Music Critics Association) Award for the score of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’.
  • Time + Space interviews James
  • Buzzfeed: 9 Best Uses of Opera in Video Games
  • James to hold concert in Nottingham as part of GameCity festival
  • Eminence Symphony Orchestra perform ‘Soviet March’
  • Coverage of James Hannigan’s GameCity concert
  • AUDIO: Cyber Den interview
  • AUDIO: BBC R4 Front Row’ interview
  • Audio Spotlight interviews James
  • Tom Hoover interviews James Hannigan for new book, “Sountrack Nation” – available now
  • James talks horror scores
  • ‘Frag Me Amadeus’ – Guardian writes up panel featuring James, Barrington Pheloung & Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Resolution magazine interviews James Hannigan
  • IGN Lists ’10 Great Video Game Albums’
  • Biogamer Girl talks to James
  • BSO Spirit interview with James Hannigan
  • Soviet March performed at Video Games Music Live
  • Indie Gamer Chick interviews James