Rachel Simpson

Rachel Simpson

Rachel is a composer and sound designer who has work on different medias Including games, television and animation. She is also a multi instrumentalist who studied music at Goldsmiths University. She gave us a lecture into what she does for her work and what is required for audio jobs in the game industry. We had a look at her work which consisted of multiple games across a few different platforms including consoles, PC and mobile phone games. She shared a showreel consisting of her work which included a lot of sound design.

It was interesting to hear how she approached her work and how working freelance is different to working within company, I am currently considering going into something like this so its interesting to hear the different dynamics of how each form of employment works. I also appreciated her organic approach to sound design which considered the sound sources and getting them herself instead of relying on existing sound libraries. It was also interesting to see what kind of games she enjoyed working on, these included games that allowed lots of creative freedom which is hard to come by.