Aivi tran biography
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Steven Universe Composer Aivi Tran Talks About Creating Music for Games
Aivi Tran is well known for working with their partner surasshu on composing the musical score for Cartoon Network’s critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning animated series, Steven Universe. Known together as aivi & surasshu, the two give the show a video game-influenced soundtrack, filling it with the hybrid sound of chiptunes and piano that evoke the feel of games like Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. But aivi & surasshu go beyond capturing the sound of games; the pair also score them, working on independent projects and minigames for GoogleDoodles.
Cliqist got in touch with Tran over email to talk about the various games they’ve worked on, collaborating with other musicians, and how they make the score in Steven Universe more interactive.
Aivi Tran and surasshu are a composing team that work together on various projects. They specialize in combining piano with chiptunes.
Cliqist: How did you get into composing music for games? What inspired you to enter this field?
Aivi Tran: My parents loved music and always had cassette tapes and vinyls playing in the house when I was growing up. They fell in love by singing Vietnamese songs together, and sang to me a lot. I think that con
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Biography
Aivi Tran (also known as "Waltz for Luma" from YouTube) is a composer and pianist, whose work is largely inspired by videogame music. She began playing the piano when she was five and loves stringing notes together to create worlds in which lovely and whimsical stories can happen.
She currently lives in San Francisco, composing/arranging freelance and teaching piano.
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Steven Universe
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