#148 - Geoffrey Day Interview (Atomic Heart, Viscerafest, DOOM, AI, Leadership, Mick Gordon etc.)

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