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We can provide all genres music, sound effects

Whether its Surround or VR, or streamed audio or midi

... we understand what it takes to ensure an immersive soundscape and will provide exactly what you need.

Portfolio

AUDITION Reel

Our "listening room". Click or Tap the above graphic.

PC and VIDEO GAME Credits

Our Music and Sound Design history. Click or Tap the above graphic.

SOUND TESTIMONY

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SOUND TESTIMONY (prt2)

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BIO

Helm Bio and Resume. Click or Tap the above graphic for details.

PRE-GAME TITLES Pro Music Experience

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About

The video above is Rudy being interviewed by director Karen Collins for her latest project, a documentary called 'BEEP!: The Movie'. It presents nearly 100 interviews from game-audio people from the world over with the aim to explore the changing nature of game audio over time.
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Helm Productions provide value to your projects because we have expertise in producing Rock (action, techno, sports, and hiphop/urban music), Orchestral (adventure, rpg, and horror music), Acoustic (golf, adult contemporary, and new age music), and of course, those “Wow!-it-sounds-like-I'm-really-there” sound effects and ambient music tracks.
Our credits include titles published by DreamWorks SKG, Sierra, Atari, Utopia, AOL/WorldPlay (formerly TSN/INN) among others.

Senior Audio and music Producer, Rudy Helm, offers many years of experience in the interactive-media industry, plus extensive previous pro-music industry experience. Helm served several years as co-chairman, advisor, and steering committee member of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IA-SIG) and is a charter-member of the Computer Game Developer's Association as well as a three-time panelist moderator for Game Developer's Conference/IA-SIG sessions.

So steal a minute and review our company info, or listen to our music samples and/or watch our sound effects demos! And hey, let's please keep in touch!

(below are some links indicating Helm's management activies in game audio development)

Helm Pro news

BEEP!: THE MOVIE

a documentary by Dr. Karen Collins

BEEP! Interview

Sr. Composer / Sound Designer

CYBERNAUTS: THE NEW BREED - 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING!

to be released by Piko Interactive very soon

Tap or click the below controls to hear a Cybernauts soundtrack demo!

BEEP! We're in the movies!...

...IMDB Rudy was an interviewee in director Karen Collins' new game audio documentary (2016):

BEEP MOVIE and BOOK

...Interviews with over 100 game audio professionals from a range of areas of game sound's history. The majority of the interviews were conducted as part of the Beep documentary film project by director and author Karen Collins. These are supplemented by interviews done for Video Game Music Online by Chris Greening. This documentary covers a huge volume of material spanning decades of video game and pinball audio history. Interviews include artists such as Marty O'Donnell (Halo), George "The Fat Man" Sanger (7th Guest), Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts), Rudy Helm (Quest for Glory III) and many, many more. The interviews aim to explore the changing nature of game audio over time. Interviews are with people from all over the world, including Japan, USA, Canada & Europe, and took place from October 2014 to July 2016. They cover a range of expertise and experience levels, and include composers, sound designers, voice actors and directors, record labels, conductor, orchestrators, chip musicians, hardware and software creators, and more.

BEEP MOVIE...

...Video interviews with the aforementioned 100+ game audio pros.

BEEP BOOK...

...transcripts of interviews with the aforementioned 100+ game audio pros. The book is ~410,000 words in length--a huge volume of material! (both in digital AND print)

BEEP Movie Digital Download...

...Digital Purchase via VHX

BEEP Movie DVD Purchase...

...via Storming the Base

BEEP Book Purchase...

...410K words of game audio goodness

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...IMDB

Click or Tap HERE for Rudy Helm's interview in director Karen Collins' new game audio documentary (2016).

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CYBERNAUTS - 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING...

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...for HELM music that was extracted from a fighting game created by Accolade, Inc that was never released.
But It will be released by retro-game developer Piko Interactive very soon!
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AUDITION Reel

DEADLOCK 1: SFX / dialog demo

(FORCED 'CARRIAGE RETURN')

We added a fun movie to watch and listen to, as sound effects are commonly best auditioned in a sound-to-picture format. This clip was taken from Accolade's space sim, "Deadlock I". (We provided the SFX. The music score was composed by Chip Harris.)

It was used as a 'movie trailer', and could be viewed as a 'cut-scene' before the actual game-play would begin. This copy of the cutscene starts as soon as you tap or click on the image above. You can stop it by tapping/clicking on the 'Pause or Stop' button.

OTHER MUSIC DEMOS

collage | urban | techno-electronica | orchestral

Collage...this music (demo #1) was the same HELM demo that the FATMAN played at the Computer Game Developers Conference's Game Demo Marathon (Fatman's CD disk 1).

Urban-esque...this music (demo #2) was included on Fatman's CD disk 2, also as part of the Game Demo Marathon. It was a piece that we had written earlier for Accolade's basketball game with Charles Barkley, "Shut Up and Jam II".

Techno / electronica...this music (demo #3) is a HELM demo that was taken from a fighting game that we had worked on called "Cybernauts", but the game was pulled and never released to market by Accolade. However, Piko Interactive, a retro game company is releasing the game very soon!

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Orchestral...this music is being provided only to pitch our orchestral style skills, but in a digital audio DAW environment, utilizing GPO. This music was premiered years ago by The Southern Indiana Orchestra.

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Quest for Glory III - 'Wages of War'

COMPLETE soundtrack prepared by SpeakerSountracks

QUEST FOR GLORY III DIGITAL SOUNDTRACK
OGG versions prepared by Queststudios

Rudy Helm's Quest For Glory 3: Wages Of War soundtrack, as recorded from the Roland Sound Canvas General MIDI score! These Ogg audio soundfiles were created by Quest Studios members. Click or tap on the images below to download the music! FREE!

Game Credits

Quest For Glory Theme (Create Character)

Introduction

Rakeesh

Tarna

Welcome Inn

Apothecary

Rakeesh & Kreesha

The Bazar – Junk Dealers

The Thief And The Hall Of Judgement (Abridged Version)

Eastern Fricana Savana

Resting In The Savanna

Meerbat Alcove

Journey To The Simbani Village

Simbani Village

Laibon

Uhura’s Hut

Hero’s Hut

Erana’s Pool

Awari

Eastern Fricana Jungle

Caged Leopardman

The Chase

The Battle (Part One)

The Battle (Part Two)

Initiation Ritual

The Large Tree

Garden At The Top Of The Tree

Waffle Walker

Leopardman Village

Eastern Fricana (The Lost City)

Leopardman Village II – Leopardman Change Ritual – The Drum – Peace Conference

Monkey Village

The Lost City

Frik And Frac (Guard Chamber)

Reeshaka Dar Kreesha – The Mirror Room – Demon Wizard

World Gate

End Game

Closing Credits

Additional Songs* (Not in any particular order)

Leopardman Battle

Temple Of Tarna

Uhura’s Theme

Eluding The Guard

*Additional selections are based upon Sierra’s original Roland MT-32 score, recorded from the game by Alistair Gillett.

Helm Productions, is a leading Interactive-Audio development company.

1996 - present

AUDITION Reel

Category: Music / SFX

PC & CONSOLE Interactive Titles

Piko Interactive:

CYBERNAUTS - The New Breed [CONSOLE] (music composer - to be released very soon)

Visual Purple LLC:

Case Studies- [PC and INTERNET APPS] (TTS ADR for wireless app)

Sierra On-line:

QUEST FOR GLORY 3 - [PC] (music composer/sfx development)

KING'S QUEST 6 - [Mac only] (port music & sfx)

HOYLE CLASSIC - [PC] (port music; sfx development)

THE DAGGER OF AMON RA - [PC] (port music & sfx)

DR. BRAIN - [PC] (patch) (port music & sfx)

HOYLE 3 - [PC] (patch) (port music & sfx)

LONGBOW - [PC] (patch) (port music & sfx)

Dreamworks SKG:

GOOSEBUMPS - ATTACK OF THE MUTANT - [PC/CD] (sfx collaboration with BlueSky).

Broderbund:

CARMEN SANDIEGO DELUXE - [PC] (port music & sfx).

Uptopia Technologies:

MONTEZUMA'S RETURN - [PC] (port music & sfx).

Accolade Inc:

BUBSY 1 - [CONSOLE] (music conversion/sfx development)

SPEED RACER - [PC] (music composer/sfx development)

SHUT UP & JAM! - 1: CHARLES BARKLEY- [CONSOLE] (mus conversion/sfx)

SHUT UP & JAM! - 2: CHARLES BARKLEY- [CONSOLE] (co-music composer/sfx)

UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS ’95 - [PC] (music conversion/sfx development)

UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS - [CONSOLE] (music composer/speech conversion)

UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS ’96 - [PC] (music composer)

CYBERNAUTS - [CONSOLE] (unreleased) (music composer/sfx development)

DEADLOCK I - [PC] (sfx development)

ERADICATOR - [PC] (co-music composer)

AOL WordPlay (formerly Sierra's The Imagination Network):

TSN CHRISTMAS CARD - [PC] (music composer/sfx development)

SOUND TESTIMONY

what they said...

ERADICATOR; (published by Accolade / ATARI)
"I’m not quite sure how they managed to make Eradicator sound so wonderful, but let it be stated for the record that this is one of the best sounding games out there."
"...You’ll want to hook your system up to a decent stereo, a really great set of headphones or a top-dollar set of multimedia speakers with a subwoofer, because the game’s ambient sounds, dynamic effects and music are its best features."
"...The game’s music and ambient sound effects are simply incredible. Finally, one of these Doom clones has taken the big step into full digital multi-track music."
"...level themes set a moody and foreboding tone that heightens the suspense and paranoia that makes games like this so much fun."
-- S. Puckett All About Games --

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DEADLOCK I: Cut-scene intro; (Accolade / ATARI)
"...the best visuals and sound effects that today’s technology offers..."
-- Next Generation --
"...the sound effects were among the best at the entire (E3) show..."
-- OGR/Network Resources --

QUEST FOR GLORY III; Wages of War; (Sierra On-Line)
"...African-like music and crisp sound effects...create the mood for each scene and carry this duty through to the end, emphasizing the most dramatic scenes throughout..."
-- Russ Ceccola, Questbusters --
"...the sound, as always, is superb..."
-- Computer Game Review --
"...a soundtrack with a broad scope of styles, ranging from driving passages filled with jungle drums to sprightly Persian bazaar music..."
-- Jeff James Computer Gaming World --
"...(the game's) innovative setting is a definite plus, as is the terrific soundtrack..."
-- Leslie Mizell PC Entertainment --
"...a rich soundtrack..."
-- PC Magazine --

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SOUND TESTIMONY (part 2)

...and they also said...

(historical relic)

UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS; (Accolade)
"...good sound effects..."
-- Lee Buchanan, PC Gamer --

SPEEDRACER; (Accolade)
"...the sound is excellent..."
-- Jack Warner, The Atlanta Journal/Constitution --

"...the sound is great..."
-- Computer Game Review --
"...wonderful music..."
-- Ken Hart, Computer Shopper --
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BIO

BIO / RESUME / RECORD-BIZ / PRIORS EDUCATION

BIO
Rudy Helm started working in the defense industry developing virtual worlds with Visual Purple, LLC in 1999. Earlier, he founded HELMPRO (aka Helm Productions) in late 1996 with the mission to create compelling interactive audio to help software entertainment production teams with their goal of placing the real world inside the personal computer or game console. Prior, he has held in-house composer/sound designer positions with two corporate giants in the entertainment software industry, Accolade (later North Infogrammes) and Sierra On-line (later became a division of Vivendi Universal).
Helm has served as co-chairman and (later) on the Advisory Board of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IA-SIG).

He was a co-founder of The Kessner-Helm Project, a musical recording act with five national releases to their credit. Helm has a background in the in the music industry spanning many years before entering the interactive industry.

RESUME
2016 - present day: To check in on the very latest, including Rudy's interview in a documentary film and a retro-game release, please tap or click HERE.

Aug 1996 - present day: As a private contractor, Helm contributed audio to Dreamwork's Goosebumps sequel, Attack of the Mutant, Utopia Technology's Montezuma sequel, Montezuma's Return, and Michael Brook's SPG Hockey.

May 1993 - Aug 1996: Helm developed sound effects and composed music for software entertainment products (PC and video console platforms) in the capacity of a full-time employee to Accolade Inc. (Atari/North Infogramme). As Accolade's lead composer/audio coordinator, Helm developed music scores and sound effects. He Performed console platform conversions. He was charged to manage one full-time assisant.

Mar 1993 - May 1993: As a private contractor, Rudy implemented conversions for the popular hit title, Carmen Sandiego, Deluxe published by Broderbund Software.

Mar 1992 - Mar 1993: Helm developed music and sound effects in-house for Sierra On-line of CA. He authored both the music soundtrack and sfx for Quest For Glory 3. He developed the GM patch for Kings' Quest 6 (Mac version), as well.

Sept 1982 - Dec 1990: Functioned as business manager of, and co-audio engineer for Yvonne Records.

EDUCATION
Helm holds a BA in Music (guitar emphasis) from Bellarmine University where he earned the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.

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(below are some links indicating Helm's management activies in game audio development)

https://gamecareerguide.com/features/gdc_reports/cgdc_97/helm_hubbard.htm

https://news.microsoft.com/1999/02/03/microsoft-ships-directx-6-1/

https://www.iasig.org/pubs/journals/jour0101.shtml

MUSICAL HISTORY OF HELM, MUSICIAN/COMPOSER

PRE-GAME TITLES Pro Music Portfolio. Tap or click the graphic to view.

pre-interactive history

1988 Provided music to award winning multi-image production, Energy, in collaboration with Grammy Award nominee, Christopher Hedges, commissioned by PG&E, for producer, Bob Rowan, of Progressive Image

1987 Kessner-Helm's fifth album, Joy of Christmas Music, released to national distribution by Yvonne Records
1986 Provided music to award winning multi-image production, Windmills, for Progressive Image
1986 Kessner-Helm's fourth album, Sun Rider, released to national distribution by Yvonne Records
1984 Kessner-Helm's third album, Gentle Harmony, released to national distribution by Yvonne Records
1983 Kessner-Helm's second album, Earthbeat, released to national distribution by Yvonne Records
1982 Kessner-Helm's first album, Innerlight, released to national distribution by Yvonne Records

honors

Recipient of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award issued by Bellarmine University

other achievements

Helm's music-to-dance collaboration, Sphere I, (electronic music assigned to pre-choreographed arrangement) with key members of the Louisville Ballet, premiered by same, and choreographed by Martha Connerton.

Music background to Witness to the Holocaust, documentary commissioned by producer, C. J. Presma, for PBS.

Helm's 2nd Symphony, Preservation, premiered by the Southern Indiana Orchestra.
Helm's 1st Symphony, Easter Island, premiered by the Southern Indiana Orchestra.
(Tap or click hereto listen to GPO renderings of a bit of Helm's orchestral music.)

Provided music jingle to televised public-service announcement, "Stash That Trash", commissioned by Mitch McConnell on behalf of Jefferson County, KY.

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