Music + Games events at Melbourne International Games Week
Saturday 5th - Friday 11th October 2019

The Victorian Music Development Office launched its VMDO Games program at Melbourne International Games Week, in order to connect more music and games professionals and open up further opportunities for collaboration in this space.

The VMDO focus on games is in response to the fact that music is an indelible element of digital games and games are very big business. From console giants to mobile chartbusters, entertainment to training and education, pure distraction to complex strategy, the games industry is multi-faceted and ubiquitous. Globally, the digital games industry generates US$60.7 billion a year, surpassing film box office, music and DVD sales - and it is growing exponentially.

VMDO at Melbourne International Games Week 2019 Events

APRA AMCOS High Score Mixer
Date: Saturday 5th October 2019
Time: 5.30pm
Location:The Market Hotel, 160 Clarendon St, South Melbourne
Details: VMDO international guests, Mason Lieberman (Senior Game Audio Coordinator, Tencent) and Sebastian Wolff (CEO/founder, Materia Collective) will be joining us to celebrate the end of day one at High Score.

APRA High Score 
Sunday 6th October 2019
A&R Panels

VMDO Networking Breakfast 
Date: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Time: 9am-11am
Location: White Sky Hub
Details: Featuring Mason Lieberman (Senior Game Audio Coordinator, Tencent), Sebastian Wolff (CEO/founder, Materia Collective) and Jules Bain (Mushroom) at the White Sky Hub 9am-11am.
More information here.

Experts in Residence
Date: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Time: Various times on the hour, 11am-5pm
Location: White Sky Hub
Details: VMDO international guests, Mason Lieberman (Senior Game Audio Coordinator, Tencent) and Sebastian Wolff (CEO/founder, Materia Collective) will be taking one-on-one meetings as part of our Experts in Residence program. More information here.

Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP)
Date: Wednesday 9th October 2019
Time: 11.00 - 11.50am
Location: Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre
Details: The VMDO will present a special panel at the 2019 GCAP conference: Games + Music; Your Perfect Soundtrack Featuring: Yasmin Naghavi (Media Arts Lawyers), Sebastian Wolff (Materia Collective), Mason Lieberman (Tencent), Niamh Houston AKA CHIPZEL and
Fabian Malabello (The Otherworld Agency, Boss Battle Records).
For more information, head to gcap.com.au

PAX Australia / UnderSCORE / UnderSCORE mixer
Date: Friday 11th October 2019
Performance Time: 7.00 - 8.00pm
Networking Event: 8.00 - 10.00pm
Location: Main Theatre, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Details: UnderSCORE is the first symphonic concert to exclusively showcase the soundtracks of Australian video games. Join us for both the musical performance and networking drinks afterwards along with our international guests, Mason Lieberman (Senior Game Audio Coordinator, Tencent) and Sebastian Wolff (CEO/founder, Materia Collective).

These events are the first part of the VMDO Games project and more will be announced in the coming months. Please contact us if you would like to discuss anything, your input will be greatly appreciated as we continue to develop the program.