jessica mao 🌸🎶 // jmaomusic.bsky.social

finally, i remembered about #PortfolioDay hi, i'm Jess! i'm a composer and pianist and i write fantasy/sci-fi orchestral music, plus the occasional K.K. Slider remix. i'd love to compose for your films and games! 😊 ✨jmaomusic.com✨ #gamedev #gameaudio #filmmusic

@JonathonHaVO LET’S GOOOOO

"Just follow my lead—I’ll light the way ahead." ☀️ Finally got the green light to post: I'm incredibly honored and thrilled to announce that I’m the English voice of Illuga in Genshin Impact! Forever grateful to HoYoverse 🙏🏼 Enjoy 6.3 everyone! #GenshinImpact #Illuga #Nodkrai

*writes something in some key* *does a key change* *takes a coffee break* *comes back to the piece* “how did I get here again???”

@theaxolotlmusic 😂 25°C and 19°C for my non-freedom unit friends!

@jmaomusic Those numbers nearly fried my non-American brain...

is the weather ok because what is this difference in high temps

@Jaden_Core yeahhhh!!! surely this time I won't go on another random hiatus lmao

@jmaomusic Woohoo! Welcome back Jessica 🎉🎉

"reviving my twitter" - me, 1.5 months ago

@Itsa_Me_Jay hello Jay!! I hope you've been well!!!

@jmaomusic omg jessica!!!

@Seycara hi there, I'm interested in this position! I'm an experienced composer, orchestrator, and pianist. please shoot me a DM so I can share my portfolio with you, thank you! :)

Hi all, I'm hiring a composer's assistant to help me edit, format, orchestrate, and prepare parts for my music: - Needs to know notation software (Finale, Musescore) at a pro level - Have a portfolio you can show/link - Paid per project at a mutually agreed rate Dm/comment below!

The closed caption for my entire life

reviving my Twitter. another GDC, another milk tea 😌 (this is, for better or for worse, my second one this week)

Here's a sneek peek of the soundtrack for @LuckyCatOtome's incredible game The Silent Kingdom! Very excited for you all to play it tomorrow✨

TGA 2024 thoughts and highlights - thank you for letting the people speak for as long as they want - The Witcher 4! - Ōkami 2?? - they let the Best Music winner come up for the award and talk! congrats to FF7 Rebirth! - ŌKAMI 2????

That’s music to our ears! Congrats to @finalfantasyvii for bringing home the win for Best Music and Score! @finalfantasy @SquareEnix #TheGameAwards

ŌKAMI????

youtu.be/sSF1e1nKNFE In Category I: Audio, I go over topics regarding sound in games. This includes music, sound effects, voices—everything.

the Twitter “for you” tab isn’t real, I refuse to acknowledge it

Funny story: before #Helldivers2 came out I considered moving on from writing orchestral #gamemusic - it seemed like players were getting tired of it, it’s absurdly difficult, time-consuming and expensive to produce, and I wanted to try new things. (1/3)

a little reminder

100% echo this sentiment. However, more often than not, the ability to be given time often requires trust and a track record that many are not afforded at the beginning of their careers especially. It's my belief (and experience) that the earlier and longer you are involved with something, the better synergy can be achieved with what you are working on. It allows you time to experiment and possibly even time to try things that may not work. It can help you connect with your team more and allow you to be proactive rather than reactive to what you're working on. It absolutely puts more onus on you to perform your art at a high level and deliver top quality work at shipping time, but surely that's what we should all want. (Sadly, there is often a difference between people just wanting the work done vs. seeking and striving for excellence) That's not to say that great scores can't be written quickly (it removes the possibility of overthinking and overwriting, which can also be a denigrating factor on a score). But if you gave me a choice, I'd take the extra time every single time.

Our score to #StarWarsOutlaws has been nominated for a GRAMMY®!! Hugest thanks to @UbiMassive and @lucasfilmgames for trusting us to bring a new perspective to Star Wars music, and to co-composers @codymatthewj @kazjin2612 and @JonEverist for their brilliant work! #gamemusic