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Absolutely stunned… Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune has been nominated for the GRAMMY® Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media!
I’m deeply honored to receive my first GRAMMY® Nomination. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
#GRAMMYs @recordingacademy.bsky.social
I’m deeply honored to receive my first GRAMMY® Nomination. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
#GRAMMYs @recordingacademy.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Absolutely stunned… Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune has been nominated for the GRAMMY® Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media!
I’m deeply honored to receive my first GRAMMY® Nomination. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
#GRAMMYs @recordingacademy.bsky.social
I’m deeply honored to receive my first GRAMMY® Nomination. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
#GRAMMYs @recordingacademy.bsky.social
Back at it again with the GameSoundCon!
This year I'm discussing a topic near to my heart:
"What Business Am I In Again?: Navigating The Music Industry for Game Composers"
This year I'm discussing a topic near to my heart:
"What Business Am I In Again?: Navigating The Music Industry for Game Composers"
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Back at it again with the GameSoundCon!
This year I'm discussing a topic near to my heart:
"What Business Am I In Again?: Navigating The Music Industry for Game Composers"
This year I'm discussing a topic near to my heart:
"What Business Am I In Again?: Navigating The Music Industry for Game Composers"
➡️ FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION ⬅️
Creating the world of Star Wars Outlaws with my team at Emperia Sound & Music has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career.
#StarWarsOutlaws #FYC #GameAudio #GameMusic #EmperiaSoundAndMusic
Creating the world of Star Wars Outlaws with my team at Emperia Sound & Music has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career.
#StarWarsOutlaws #FYC #GameAudio #GameMusic #EmperiaSoundAndMusic
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
➡️ FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION ⬅️
Creating the world of Star Wars Outlaws with my team at Emperia Sound & Music has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career.
#StarWarsOutlaws #FYC #GameAudio #GameMusic #EmperiaSoundAndMusic
Creating the world of Star Wars Outlaws with my team at Emperia Sound & Music has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career.
#StarWarsOutlaws #FYC #GameAudio #GameMusic #EmperiaSoundAndMusic
❇FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION❇
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media
October 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
❇FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION❇
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media
Extraordinarily proud of the @EmperiaSound crew, @benhicksmusic.bsky.social and Gina Kouyoumdjian (Matilda Stray), for yet another killer @AFK_Journey theme song! "Whispers of Ruin (Thorns of Devotion Season Theme Song)" is out now on DSPs!
Big mood, massive vibes, and so much attitude 👏
🔗⤵️
Big mood, massive vibes, and so much attitude 👏
🔗⤵️
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Extraordinarily proud of the @EmperiaSound crew, @benhicksmusic.bsky.social and Gina Kouyoumdjian (Matilda Stray), for yet another killer @AFK_Journey theme song! "Whispers of Ruin (Thorns of Devotion Season Theme Song)" is out now on DSPs!
Big mood, massive vibes, and so much attitude 👏
🔗⤵️
Big mood, massive vibes, and so much attitude 👏
🔗⤵️
🧵1/4 - I am excited to celebrate the launch of Lost Soul Aside alongside its fans! Many fans have been asking about my music for the game, and I'm grateful to share this update with approval and blessing from Ultizero Games:
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🧵1/4 - I am excited to celebrate the launch of Lost Soul Aside alongside its fans! Many fans have been asking about my music for the game, and I'm grateful to share this update with approval and blessing from Ultizero Games:
@maclaine.bsky.social is at it again with his score to @dreamhaven.com's @playwildgate.com!
Thankful to Maclaine & Dave Shumway for bringing Emperia on to help cut together the soundtrack album to Wildgate!
Massive props to my team who pulled it together Ben Hicks, Hélène Choyer, & Alec Justice
Thankful to Maclaine & Dave Shumway for bringing Emperia on to help cut together the soundtrack album to Wildgate!
Massive props to my team who pulled it together Ben Hicks, Hélène Choyer, & Alec Justice
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@maclaine.bsky.social is at it again with his score to @dreamhaven.com's @playwildgate.com!
Thankful to Maclaine & Dave Shumway for bringing Emperia on to help cut together the soundtrack album to Wildgate!
Massive props to my team who pulled it together Ben Hicks, Hélène Choyer, & Alec Justice
Thankful to Maclaine & Dave Shumway for bringing Emperia on to help cut together the soundtrack album to Wildgate!
Massive props to my team who pulled it together Ben Hicks, Hélène Choyer, & Alec Justice
Congrats to all of my friends and colleagues long-listed for the World Soundtrack Awards x Game Music Award 2025!
Voting is open until Aug 21, so please consider making your way to the WSA site to vote for Star Wars Outlaws for the Game Music Award 2025 🤗👇👇
Voting is open until Aug 21, so please consider making your way to the WSA site to vote for Star Wars Outlaws for the Game Music Award 2025 🤗👇👇
July 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Congrats to all of my friends and colleagues long-listed for the World Soundtrack Awards x Game Music Award 2025!
Voting is open until Aug 21, so please consider making your way to the WSA site to vote for Star Wars Outlaws for the Game Music Award 2025 🤗👇👇
Voting is open until Aug 21, so please consider making your way to the WSA site to vote for Star Wars Outlaws for the Game Music Award 2025 🤗👇👇
4/4 - We very much look forward to sharing music of the musicians and video of our recording sessions in the future!
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
4/4 - We very much look forward to sharing music of the musicians and video of our recording sessions in the future!
3/4 - This project was helmed by myself & Hélène Choyer — the tag-team duo from Trek to Yomi — and much of the
Emperia Sound and Music team and all of the amazing engineers, videographers, assistants, and studios around the world.
Emperia Sound and Music team and all of the amazing engineers, videographers, assistants, and studios around the world.
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
3/4 - This project was helmed by myself & Hélène Choyer — the tag-team duo from Trek to Yomi — and much of the
Emperia Sound and Music team and all of the amazing engineers, videographers, assistants, and studios around the world.
Emperia Sound and Music team and all of the amazing engineers, videographers, assistants, and studios around the world.
2/4 - Emperia was brought on to help source musicians - Nana Osei Swum Marima, Pierre Harmon, and Dan Cecil Hill - to perform culturally accurate and representative music from a variety of cultures around the world -- Ashanti, Aztec, and Iroquois.
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
2/4 - Emperia was brought on to help source musicians - Nana Osei Swum Marima, Pierre Harmon, and Dan Cecil Hill - to perform culturally accurate and representative music from a variety of cultures around the world -- Ashanti, Aztec, and Iroquois.
1/4 - It’s with great excitement we can at long last announce Emperia Sound & Music participation producing music for the recently announced Europa Universalis V!
We had the opportunity to fly all over the world to record and work with these musicians!
We had the opportunity to fly all over the world to record and work with these musicians!
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
1/4 - It’s with great excitement we can at long last announce Emperia Sound & Music participation producing music for the recently announced Europa Universalis V!
We had the opportunity to fly all over the world to record and work with these musicians!
We had the opportunity to fly all over the world to record and work with these musicians!
Couldn't be happier with the team we've had on this project and all of the cherished memories creating this music.
May 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Couldn't be happier with the team we've had on this project and all of the cherished memories creating this music.
Eternally grateful and proud of the team on Star Wars Outlaws and the crew at Emperia Sound and Music at large!
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Eternally grateful and proud of the team on Star Wars Outlaws and the crew at Emperia Sound and Music at large!
Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune comes with a radio edit and extended version of "Outer Rim Rhapsody" featuring 15 minutes of shredding jams, new Sabacc music (including revisiting the main game sabacc theme), and a huttese choir in "Ona Klatooine (Sleemo)"
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune comes with a radio edit and extended version of "Outer Rim Rhapsody" featuring 15 minutes of shredding jams, new Sabacc music (including revisiting the main game sabacc theme), and a huttese choir in "Ona Klatooine (Sleemo)"
@starwarsoutlaws.ubisoft.com: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) is out now! -- score by @wilbertroget.bsky.social, a new rebel theme from @joneverist.bsky.social, and with cantina & sabacc music from myself!
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@starwarsoutlaws.ubisoft.com: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) is out now! -- score by @wilbertroget.bsky.social, a new rebel theme from @joneverist.bsky.social, and with cantina & sabacc music from myself!
1/3 Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune is finally here! A Pirate’s Fortune comes loaded new themes from
@wilbertroget.bsky.social @joneverist.bsky.social, the fan beloved legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka, and… a Huttese choir singing new music by yours truly! #starwarsoutlaws
@wilbertroget.bsky.social @joneverist.bsky.social, the fan beloved legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka, and… a Huttese choir singing new music by yours truly! #starwarsoutlaws
May 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1/3 Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune is finally here! A Pirate’s Fortune comes loaded new themes from
@wilbertroget.bsky.social @joneverist.bsky.social, the fan beloved legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka, and… a Huttese choir singing new music by yours truly! #starwarsoutlaws
@wilbertroget.bsky.social @joneverist.bsky.social, the fan beloved legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka, and… a Huttese choir singing new music by yours truly! #starwarsoutlaws
1/3 - Emperia is doing our annual call for new contributor submissions!
Every year we like to open up our contributor submission form to allow folks an opportunity to submit for consideration on our projects and albums.
forms.gle/w2mfokkeCTU5...
Every year we like to open up our contributor submission form to allow folks an opportunity to submit for consideration on our projects and albums.
forms.gle/w2mfokkeCTU5...
May 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
1/3 - Emperia is doing our annual call for new contributor submissions!
Every year we like to open up our contributor submission form to allow folks an opportunity to submit for consideration on our projects and albums.
forms.gle/w2mfokkeCTU5...
Every year we like to open up our contributor submission form to allow folks an opportunity to submit for consideration on our projects and albums.
forms.gle/w2mfokkeCTU5...
MTFBWY #maythe4thbewithyou last week at ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards with @wilbertroget.bsky.social, for Star Wars Outlaws
Sending love to #StarWars family and fans!
(third photo I promise is not a sad attempt at force lightning, no photoshops please)
Sending love to #StarWars family and fans!
(third photo I promise is not a sad attempt at force lightning, no photoshops please)
May 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
MTFBWY #maythe4thbewithyou last week at ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards with @wilbertroget.bsky.social, for Star Wars Outlaws
Sending love to #StarWars family and fans!
(third photo I promise is not a sad attempt at force lightning, no photoshops please)
Sending love to #StarWars family and fans!
(third photo I promise is not a sad attempt at force lightning, no photoshops please)
I could not be more proud to announce the For The King 1+2 @ironoakgames.bsky.social deluxe 2xLP release featuring the music from the scores composed by @johnrobertmatz.bsky.social — created in collaboration between Emperia Records & our friends at @materiacollective.bsky.social!
April 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I could not be more proud to announce the For The King 1+2 @ironoakgames.bsky.social deluxe 2xLP release featuring the music from the scores composed by @johnrobertmatz.bsky.social — created in collaboration between Emperia Records & our friends at @materiacollective.bsky.social!
STAR WARS OUTLAWS NOMINATED FOR BAFTA GAME AWARDS!”
Quite unreal to be amongst such talent nominated for @baftagames.bsky.social Awards!
Congratulations again and again to the entire #StarWarsOutlaws music and sound team for all of the creative work that paved the way for this nomination!
Quite unreal to be amongst such talent nominated for @baftagames.bsky.social Awards!
Congratulations again and again to the entire #StarWarsOutlaws music and sound team for all of the creative work that paved the way for this nomination!
March 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
STAR WARS OUTLAWS NOMINATED FOR BAFTA GAME AWARDS!”
Quite unreal to be amongst such talent nominated for @baftagames.bsky.social Awards!
Congratulations again and again to the entire #StarWarsOutlaws music and sound team for all of the creative work that paved the way for this nomination!
Quite unreal to be amongst such talent nominated for @baftagames.bsky.social Awards!
Congratulations again and again to the entire #StarWarsOutlaws music and sound team for all of the creative work that paved the way for this nomination!
It's an honor to be nominated for an #ASCAP Composers' Choice Award for our work on #StarWarsOutlaws!
ASCAP Members! The time to vote is now. Please consider our music from Star Wars Outlaws for your Composer's Choice Award for Video Game Score of the Year
Voting link in thread!
ASCAP Members! The time to vote is now. Please consider our music from Star Wars Outlaws for your Composer's Choice Award for Video Game Score of the Year
Voting link in thread!
February 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's an honor to be nominated for an #ASCAP Composers' Choice Award for our work on #StarWarsOutlaws!
ASCAP Members! The time to vote is now. Please consider our music from Star Wars Outlaws for your Composer's Choice Award for Video Game Score of the Year
Voting link in thread!
ASCAP Members! The time to vote is now. Please consider our music from Star Wars Outlaws for your Composer's Choice Award for Video Game Score of the Year
Voting link in thread!
An ASCAP Composers’ Choice Award is an award chosen by your peers — the best of film, TV, and games. A bit speechless
Star Wars Outlaws is recognized amongst my heroes and industry giants!
Massive thanks to our peers for this recognition and congrats to all of other nominees!
Star Wars Outlaws is recognized amongst my heroes and industry giants!
Massive thanks to our peers for this recognition and congrats to all of other nominees!
February 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
An ASCAP Composers’ Choice Award is an award chosen by your peers — the best of film, TV, and games. A bit speechless
Star Wars Outlaws is recognized amongst my heroes and industry giants!
Massive thanks to our peers for this recognition and congrats to all of other nominees!
Star Wars Outlaws is recognized amongst my heroes and industry giants!
Massive thanks to our peers for this recognition and congrats to all of other nominees!
In four short weeks I'll be in *two* sessions at @officialgdc.bsky.social:
Audio Summit: '#StarWarsOutlaws': Diegetic Music as a Tool for World Building and Authenticity
Audio Summit: Lunchtime Surgeries
Emperia Sound and Music and Emperia Records will be at GDC, so drop a note and let's hang!
Audio Summit: '#StarWarsOutlaws': Diegetic Music as a Tool for World Building and Authenticity
Audio Summit: Lunchtime Surgeries
Emperia Sound and Music and Emperia Records will be at GDC, so drop a note and let's hang!
February 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In four short weeks I'll be in *two* sessions at @officialgdc.bsky.social:
Audio Summit: '#StarWarsOutlaws': Diegetic Music as a Tool for World Building and Authenticity
Audio Summit: Lunchtime Surgeries
Emperia Sound and Music and Emperia Records will be at GDC, so drop a note and let's hang!
Audio Summit: '#StarWarsOutlaws': Diegetic Music as a Tool for World Building and Authenticity
Audio Summit: Lunchtime Surgeries
Emperia Sound and Music and Emperia Records will be at GDC, so drop a note and let's hang!