Pete Gresser is a composer and

occasional voice actor who lives with his husband and their incredibly old dogin suburban Los Angeles. He’s written music for the soundtracks of over adozen games, the most recent release being Rex: Another

Island,currently available on Steam. By his own admission, he’s terrible at socialmedia and has made it his 2019 resolution to attempt to feel shame for beingterrible at social media, but he makes no promises about actually improving.

Pete and Michael talk about video-game music, Arizona, compositional

practices, the reckoning of middle age, and how Björk taught him resilienceand pride as a closeted teen.

Pete’s Five Songs.

• Don’t Go by Yazoo
  (aka Yaz).
• Scheherazade: Op. 35, II: The Story of the Kalendar
  Prince by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov .
• Simon’s Theme (from Super Castlevania
  IV) by Masanori
  Adachi and Taro Kudo.
• Isobel by Björk.
• Epic III (from Hadestown)
  by Anaïs Mitchell.

Show Notes.

Pete’s website, where you can hear some of his

compositions.

Pete’s Twitter account.

Lindsay Ellis’s video on the Death of the

Author.