LEVEL UP!

OUR EPIC GAME MUSIC event - right in the heart of West Hollywood!

Level Up! features game music from the globally popular Assassin’s Creed and a special video feature from Riot Games to revolutionary indie games, including Telling Lies and Dungeon Defenders. The music will be played live to select game highlights throughout the show. Helix Collective presents this concert featuring a roster of BIPOC and women composers, highlighting some of the biggest talents in video game music today.

Attendees will travel through the musical worlds of games like Assassin’s Creed Liberation, set in 18th Century French Louisiana, Telling Lies with a 21st Century FBI agent piecing together a mystery and Ancient China in Bladed Fury. Helix will celebrate with Riot Games’ Hop On - Lunar Revel Cinematic, fight the undead in Zombie Rollerz, unravel the mysteries of the past in Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War, save the land of Etheria in Dungeon Defenders, survive the horrors of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and learn how to wield magic in the Stardander School for Witches. The concert will be a sound exploration of the individual worlds of each game.

PROGRAM

• Society Suite from Assassin’s Creed Liberation (Ubisoft), composer, Winifred Phillips
• Hop On - Lunar Revel 2023 Cinematic (Riot Games), composer, George Shaw
• Music from Bladed Fury (NExT Studios), composer, Edwin Wendler
• Music from Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War (Winking Works), composer, Sid De La Cruz
• Dungeon Defenders Suite (Chromatic Games), composer, Afshin Cohen
• Telling Lies Suite (Sam Barlow and Furious Bee), composer Nainita Desai
• Amnesia Suite from Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (The Chinese Room), composer Jessica Curry
• Zombie Rollerz Suite (Zing Games), composer Min He
• Suite from Stardander School for Witches (Fancy Fish Games), composer Chase Bethea

HELIX COLLECTIVE

Helix Collective are classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold. From crossover dance music, to storytelling, to film, television, and video game music, the Los Angeles-based ensemble takes the best of classical chamber music and makes it the life of the party.

Variety Magazine praised Helix Collective’s musical range moving from “moody urgency and edgy chamber-music sound” to the “sweetly romantic evoking wide-open spaces.”

Helix “has a little something for everyone: those who like their classics straight up, with a contemporary edge to it, or with populist appeal.” Called “dizzyingly virtuosic with exquisite musicianship and world-class range” by The Free Times and praised for “beyond-the-ordinary programming.”

Like the double helix, the ensemble is rearrangeable, flexible, and fuses the DNA of classical music into worlds where it’s never gone before. www.helixcollective.org

Thank you to our 2024 Season Sponsors BMI and Spectra Creative Agency, and concert sponsors Orange Tree Samples, and ReelCrafter. This program is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood and by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

Host or Publisher Helix Collective