The world championship finals of League of Legends , the online multiplayer battle game, are about to begin in Sangam Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.
As 40, spectators cheer, a digital clock projected on a huge screen counts down the last 10 seconds before opening ceremonies. On a sprawling stage, dancing drummers in traditional robes beat their instruments as the alt-rock band Imagine Dragons growls to life. With a classical pianist father and a mother who studied classical singing, Robertson and his sisterβnow a violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestraβgrew up immersed in music in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Robertson began playing violin at age five and spent his teenage summers as a student at the Aspen Music Festival and School. While subbing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he says, he met studio musicians who helped him get auditions for film and TV work.
Since then, Robertson has racked up hundreds of credits in TV shows, video games, and movies. By the s, most shows used only a few live instruments as supplements; some often relied on loops of electronic sounds.
Today, melodies and organic sound are making a comeback. Today, melodies and organic sound are making a comeback in TV.
