We recently caught up with Antonio Teoli at BIG Festival in São Paulo, Brazil where he gave an illuminating presentation on the main stage about Game Music Production to a packed audience brimming with excitement and eager to ask questions.

Antonio grew up in São Paulo and studied music from a very early age. As a child, he was a big fan of games, and enrolled in the first class offered in Latin America for game design 20 years ago.

Since then, he has enjoyed a successful career writing music for almost 500 casual and mobile games globally.

Antonio celebrated his 5th year anniversary in the U.S. this past July. He resides in Hollywood with an amazing view of the fireworks from the Hollywood Bowl, which is poetic considering his humble beginnings.

Antonio's journey as a composer is extraordinary and inspirational. He learned music composition at the age of seven, and in addition to playing piano he took up tuba. He enrolled in the music conservatory at age 15 and studied guitar for two years. After graduating, he moved to the south of Brazil where he learned jazz and orchestration. In 2018, he moved to L.A. and then quickly traveled back to Brazil to fulfill a yearning to produce a library with authentic sounds from the Amazon.

He recorded many indigenous people who collectively played 109 musical instruments, including water drums and floating coconuts. As an invited guest, he was able to record sacred tribal chants, instruments that recreate bird calls, and other unique sounds from this vast region which is rich in culture, history, and rituals.

Antonio released these exotic sounds from the Amazon in a library called The Amazonic. One of the core features aside from the great and unique sounds, was that the project was fully connected to social causes. This included giving back to the community by donating food, supplies, and medicine for the natives and rescued animals in the Amazon.

Because of the success of the project, and with the desire to record other native sounds around the world, Antonio created an entirely new company called Sounds of the Earth, which will continue to provide not just top-notch sounds to audio producers, composers and sound designers, but also continue the legacy to preserve these unique sounds and support local causes.

Said Antonio, "It is my desire to continue to capture these exotic and culturally unique sounds that are becoming more and more endangered as the world evolves. By giving an opportunity to local communities and cultures around the world, we hope to keep these sounds as well as the communities that create them alive for many years to come."

For more information, please visit https://www.soundsoftheearth.com/

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