Performance
What five composers/primary artists worked on the movie "Sound City"?
Sound City (film)
Music composition and composers in Prishtina Pete Lockett Shimpei Takeda Tom Mardikes Video game music
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Florent Boshnjaku(born 1970) is one of the most successful composers and he is esspecially known for his participation as a composer in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, where the song Suus sung by Rona Nishliu reached the 5th position, the highest rank in the history of Albanian participations in the contest. The song was also considered one of the best Albanian songs. He was born in Gjakova but he finished primary school and music high school in Prishtina where he lives to this day. He went on to study Sound Engineering in New York and Sound Production in London in 1996 in "Westminster school of performing arts". He was also a member of the band "Oda", one of the most successful bands in Kosovo. He has worked as a composer for a large number of artists and won a lot of awards as a composer. Some of his Participations and Awards are: 
He has recorded and/or performed with many artists including, Björk, Afro Celt Sound System, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, The Verve, Amy Winehouse, Pet Shop Boys, Sinéad O'Connor, Nitin Sawhney, Zakir Hussain and A.R. Rahman amongst many others. He has also worked extensively in the film industry, playing on a number of Bond movies, "Moulin Rouge! ", "The Insider", "City of Angels", "The Bone Collector" and the Guy Ritchie movie "Snatch". 
Shimpei Takeda (Born in Japan) has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. While primarily working with photographic material, he has also collaborated with composers and sound artists through his video works. His video work has been shown internationally, including Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, Weisman Art Museum, Austin Museum of Art. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurred within 40 miles to where his family resides, Takeda started his on-going project "Trace – cameraless records of radioactive contamination": Radiation in the contaminated soil exposes photographic materials as direct and physical documentation of the disaster.  
Mardikes began teaching at UMKC in 1978. He became the head of graduate sound design in 1986, and chair of the Theatre Department in 2001. Mardikes has also worked as a sound designer on over 250 professional productions. He has been the resident sound designer for the Missouri Repertory Theatre (now the Kansas City Repertory Theatre), the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and the Kansas City Actors Theatre, as well as completing freelance work with the Great Lakes Theater, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Unicorn Theatre, and many others. In addition to sound design, Mardikes is a co-founder of the Kansas City Actors Theatre (KCAT), formed in 2004. He is an active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), where he has served as Commissioner and Vice Commissioner of Sound. He was also one of five professional sound designers who helped facilitate the organization of sound designers into the United Scenic Artists (USA) Local 829 which has led to the official recognition of sound design by the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and professional theatres nationwide, as well as authoring the Sound Design examination for new designers. In 1986, Mardikes founded the City Spark recording studio in Kansas City, where he served as president and producer. 
Video game music refers to the soundtrack or background music accompanying video games. Originally limited to simple melodies by early sound synthesizer technology, video game music has grown to include the same breadth and complexity associated with television and movie soundtracks. While simple synthesizer pieces are still common, game music now can include full orchestral pieces and licensed popular music. Video games can now also generate or alter their soundtrack based on the player's current actions or situation, such as indicating missed actions in rhythm games. With the expansion of the video game market, artists going between popular music, classical music, the film industry and video games has become more common. Well known composers and artists such as Harry Gregson-Williams, Trent Reznor and Hans Zimmer have worked on soundtracks for recent games, while Michael Giacchino, now normally known for his film scores, began with Mickey Mania and continued with the "Medal of Honor" series. Beginning in the early 2000s, it became increasingly common for video game soundtracks to be commercially sold or performed in concerts that focus on video game music. The early limitations on video game music also inspired the style of music known as chiptunes that use the original simple melodic styles, sometimes sampled directly from classic games, with more complex patterns or mixed with the traditional music styles. 