Game Music

[magician]

Greetings;

 

As I am a musician myself, I always wanted to ask this to developers;

 

How do you people choose musicians/musics for your games/projects? Do you accept applications and or demo tapes? Do you need the composer(s) to live near you or you accept people from different cities, countries?

 

I am planning to form a studio soon with some cutting edge technology (and quite a sum of money to dump ) and willing to learn about the business of computer game musics.

 

I had some small dialogues in the past with indie developers but nothing solid came out (ok once it did but the company had suffered a bankrupt)

 

Also, any written text advice (books, good sites etc) are welcome.

 

 

EDIT NOTE: Typos

 

EDIT II: I wrote this here as I am asking this to Dev.s. I am sorry if this was supposed to be in some place else. If that is the case, I would be more than happy to see the mods. to chew me off

Edited February 14, 2006 by magician