Frank Luchs Composer Producer AudioDeveloper
In 1983, Frank Luchs wrote hist first music program for the Atari computer and started his dual music/programming career. His projects have ranged from producing and composing scores for movie and TV, to sound design and programming of custom applications and audio/video software.

He has produced and composed hundreds of songs, jingles and movies scores, including Germany's most-known crime serial, Tatort.

Frank has written chapters for the audio-section of Game Programming
Gems 3,4 and 6. He is the founder of Visiomedia Ltd., a company specializing
in virtual instruments. At Visiomedia he designed the software synthesizer Saccara. The grain-based synthesis method has been adapted as open source for the book Game Programming Gems 6.

Frank currently works in the movie business in Munich, Germany. When he's not
programming, he enjoys making a lot of noise with his synthesizer gear and
composing electronic symphonies.

Bio taken from the book
Game Programming Gems 6
Track Of The Month

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Each month we will present a short track here as a free download. This month we have chosen Yukiguni, produced in 2001.

The main melody of the track is based on a variation of a pentatonic japanese scale. This gives that familiar melancholy flavor.

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Cover-CG based on photos by Jochem Dijkstra and Dan Price

 Yukiguni (Snow Country) is one of the most famous japanese novels of the 20th century.
The novelist Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.

His novel was published in 1947. Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha, which takes place in a remote hot-spring town somewhere on the north of the mountainous region of Japan. wikipedia

CONTACT:

Frank Luchs
Daettnauerstr.99
CH-8406 Winterthur
(+41) 52 / 202 68 71
email: score at visiomedia.com

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