David Javelosa

Biography

David Javelosa is Professor of Interactive Media at Santa Monica College. He has been into gaming since killing time in clubs at sound check for his new wave band in the ’80s.

Working as a musician and audio director for Sega in the early 1990s, he also freelanced for Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Marvel, Disney Games, and Inscape, among others.

He has taught courses about games and game music at San Francisco State and UCLA. Before his current teaching position, he was Game Industry Specialist for the Yamaha Corporation.

In his spare time he still plays lounge gigs, travels, and is an avid skydiver.

Blog

Game Audio Education Comes of Age and Gets Funky!

October 12 2007

There are two things that are really exciting me today. One: Game Development as an academic pursuit is finally being taken seriously. That means Game Audio is going to get a big boost in the halls of music departments and... read more

A FEW THOUGHTS ON USING CANNED MUSIC…

September 10 2007

The "Kings of Karaoke" Back in the early days of music technology, there came to pass the big divide between “fresh” live music and “canned” music. Of course what we are talking about is recorded music, which has been... read more

A Wii BIT OF SPATIALIZATION AND WHY IT’S SPECIAL

August 29 2007

In several discussions and talks with multimedia audio specialists, game composers, music technologists and the like… one of the startling conclusions that many have come to is that “game audio” is over. (!) Not to say that it no longer... read more

MY DIGITAL-AUDIO-EVOVLUTION-IN-A-BLOG...

August 20 2007

It's the summer of 2007 and it's a bit daunting to pick a point in time to think back on. Where to begin a recap of my exposure to what had been referred to as multimedia? In particular, how did... read more