Gordon Durity

Gordon Durity has over twenty-five years experience in creating soundtracks, writing songs and producing audio in the areas of film, television, games, multimedia, and album production. He currently serves as a Studio Audio Director at Electronic Arts Canada, the largest developer of video games in the world. There Gordon designs and supervises the creation and implementation of audio for various titles, works with technical staff to develop new cutting edge technologies, sits on game design groups and is part of the team looking in to new online opportunities for online-based gaming in Asia. He also sits on the AIAS sound panel where he’s involved in adjudicating for the audio award for the top games of the year. Gordon currently serves as a consultant to educational institutions, film and music industries on how best to maximize opportunities in the exploding games industry. He is also a part-time instructor at the Arts Institute of Vancouver and Emily Carr University of the Arts. As a composer, Gordon has written scores for feature and short films, television, radio, dance, theatre, runway shows and games. He has worked with many artists on songs in a variety of styles ranging from hip-hop, r&b, gospel, to country, to reggae, to modern rock. Gordon has produced and written with many international artists and has had songs charted all over the world. As a composer, sound effects editor and mixer for film and television, he has worked for USA Network, Fox, Disney, Paramount, CBC, BBC, Trimark, NFB, PBS, ABC, and many independents, delivering audio environments ranging from mono to Dolby Surround to 5.1 DVD. Gordon has a degree in real-time interactive midi driven music systems and 20th century composition. Gordon received a Leo Award in 2005 for his score to the documentary “The Life and Times of Daniel Igali”, and a 2006 Leo Award for his sound design work on the feature drama, “Eve and the Firehorse”.