"I started practicing guitar in a more serious way, and I ended up getting involved with the Gamers With Jobs forums, which was fairly new back in those days." It was here that Dorsch would crucially meet another aspiring creator, and future co-founder of The Escapist, Russ Pitts. The stress of bringing money to the table was gone, but the yearning to continue composing and performing was undeniable. "It was too much for the family unit to juggle, and Joy and I just weren't seeing each other." So in 2004, Dorsch made the decision to get a day job, moving the family to Aberdeen, Washington, where he grew up.ĪLSO READ: Dead Space Scared Me Off, But I'm Loving The RemakeĪt first, he took a "cold turkey" music-free day job as a pump manufacturer for an engineering department. "I'd reached a point where my daughter was almost a year old, and I was trying to balance doing this with working at a church music gig and just taking music directing jobs that I could land in the Bellingham area," he says. Surrounded by talented, aspiring peers, Dorsch began making his way into the gaming space, but life began to get in the way. I saw some work in Electronic Musician about writing music for video games, and was like 'Hey, this is a career path.'" "Around that time I was a voracious consumer of any kind of like music trade journalism that I could get my hands on. At the time though, they were starving artists (well, at least until an unexpected pregnancy pushed Dorsch to seek out steady work to support their growing family). So I really try to get out there and expose myself to new styles now."ĪLSO READ: This Open-World RPG Is Like Psychedelic Morrowind With PS1 GraphicsĪfter honing his skills in college, Dorsch would find the perfect companion in his singer/composer wife, Joy, who'd later go on to work with Ian on Gears of War 3, among other projects. ![]() "If you close yourself off to those things, you miss all the potential gems that are out there. What I learned there was to be curious and to keep my mind open." At the time, he recalls music journalism turning snobbishly toxic, whereas he learned ot embrace all manner of genres. ![]() ![]() A lot of lights came on at once for me when I went to music school. So I feel a great debt to it and to share it with other people - to evangelize for it.
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