Music agent Bob Rice died earlier this week on the age of 79 years previous. Per his publicist to the Hollywood Reporter, he handed earlier within the week of COPD in San Clarita, California.
For video video games, Rice was a key contributor to how music has grow to be an vital a part of the medium. He first entered the trade by govt producing Information Age’s 1982 recreation Journey Escape for the Atari 2600. The title is taken into account certainly one of (if not the very first) rock online game, and has digital likenesses of the rock band Journey’s members.
Rice first obtained his begin in music on the age of 15 in Cleveland as a live performance promoter. A yr later, he ran his personal document label and publishing firm. All through the many years, he got here to work with musicians similar to Danny Elfman and Michael Kamen.
In 1992, Rice based 4 Bars Intertainment, which represented composers of online game music. 4 Bars members embody Inon Zur (Fallout, Starfield), Sascha Dikiciyan (Deus Ex), and Jack Wall (Mass Impact). On Twitter, Zur referred to Rice as “the one who found me. […] He began it, he put us all on the trade map.”
“Bob at all times believed in me, and his instructing was at all times profound and life-changing,” continued Zur. “I might by no means be who I’m at the moment with out Bob and I’ll miss him a lot. […] In all places there’s a composer who composes music for video video games, Bob is correct there.”
Dikiciyan echoed Zur’s sentiment, saying Ross “is mainly liable for giving my profession a second life after it crashed in 2003. There have been some downs too however principally simply good instances. Bob, I’ll at all times be pleased about what you probably did (for others too in fact).”
Cris Velasco, composer on Lords of the Fallen, known as him “my mentor…He is the primary agent to see a future in video games.”
Rice is survived by his daughter his daughter, Lisa.
Bob was the one who found me, who taught me a lot of the issues I do know at the moment about enterprise, and about find out how to run my life within the trade. Bob was there for me for 25 years. He at all times believed in me, and his instructing was at all times profound and life-changing.— Inon Zur (@InonZur) June 8, 2023