May 15, 2006
Winifred Phillips Composes The Da Vinci Code
Game
Winifred Phillips’ original music and lyrics
immerse players in the official video game based on the upcoming film The Da
Vinci Code
Winifred Phillips, a multiple award winning
composer for video games, radio, television and film, has created the theatrical
score for The Da Vinci Code™ video game, developed by The Collective for 2K
Games. The video game is based on the highly-anticipated The Da Vinci Code film
by Oscar™ winning director Ron Howard, which is based on Dan Brown’s critically
acclaimed, best-selling novel. The video game(s) are timed to coincide with the
film’s world-wide release date of May 19th.
Selected by the development team at Collective
Studios for her imaginative and innovative approach to choral composition,
Winifred was given extensive creative control to produce an original sound for
the game inspired by Dan Brown’s novel. Embracing the developer’s ambition,
Winifred wrote more than one hundred tracks of dramatic and ethereal music for
The Da Vinci Code™ video game that combines classical and liturgical techniques
with an aggressive contemporary edge and all the orchestral power of a
modern-day thriller. Phillips is a classically trained vocalist as well as a
composer, so for the score she personally sang all the voices of a full
symphonic chorus including sopranos, altos, tenors and basses.
Cordy Rierson, producer of The Da Vinci Code™
game at Collective Studios, said, “When we heard Winifred’s music, we knew she
was the one to bring the video game alive with inspiring and innovative sound.
Her music and vocals provided vision and helped shape what is going to be a true
one of a kind gaming experience.”
J.P. Walton, audio director for the video game at
Collective Studios, added, “Winifred’s score is the perfect accompaniment to the
game. Her melodic themes and haunting choral arrangements provide a wonderful
backdrop to The Da Vinci Code™. Once you hear it you won’t believe that she
alone performed every part!”
As an accomplished game composer, Winifred’s
music has won the 2005 Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of
Interactive Arts and Sciences for “Outstanding Achievement in Original Music
Composition,” and four Game Audio Network Guild Awards in 2005, including the
prestigious "Music of the Year" Award. Winifred is also the composer of
award-winning musical scores for more than 100 music drama programs in the
"Radio Tales" series, originally aired on National Public Radio and currently
broadcast weekly to the more than six million subscribers of XM Satellite Radio.
For this series, Winifred wrote music for such radio programs as "War of the
Worlds," "Arabian Nights," "The Time Machine," "The Phantom of the Opera,"
"Gulliver’s Travels," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde." Winifred has received four Gracie Awards from the Foundation of American
Women in Radio and Television. She is also a New York Festivals World Medalist,
and has been honored by the NFCB Golden Reel Awards and the Audio Publishers
Association Awards. For more information please visit
www.winifredphillips.com.
Doubleday has completed its 104th printing of the
Dan Brown novel which will bring the total number of hardcover copies in print
in North America to an unprecedented 12 million. It is the record-setting adult
fiction hardcover bestseller, with 161 weeks on The New York Times bestseller
list, 55 of them at #1. In addition, 5 million paperback copies for North
America were printed and released in the U.S. market March 28th. The novel
currently has 57 million copies in print worldwide in all formats.
For more information about The Da Vinci Code™
video game please visit:
http://www.2Kgames.com.
