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Adam Humphreys

@adamh.ivgorchestra.com

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🎹 Composer 🎧 Assistant Music Director and Arranger for @ivgorchestra.com 🎻 Double Bass, Electric Bass, Piano 🖥️ Software Engineer, Cybersecurity 🐤 Final Fantasy ⚔️ Baldur's Gate 3 📦 Metal Gear Solid 日本語OK https://linktr.ee/adam.humphreys

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Oct 28

Hello bluesky🦋

Pitching video game music at an orchestra and ducking when it throws it back at @ivgorchestra.com. Past victims:

✦ Final Fantasy
✦ Metal Gear Solid
✦ Baldur's Gate 3
✦ NieR
✦ The Witcher 3
✦ Chrono Trigger
✦ LOTR

Software Engineer by day, allegedly productive adult by necessity 🖥️

Me with my electric bass and double bass

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 21h

XIII music is elite. Hamauzu-san 🎮♥️

Nothing wrong with a linear story game too imo, everything went open world for a while and sometimes it's nice for a game to compel you to just enjoy the ride

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Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social · 3d

Last few hours to grab Hob's Barrow at 50% off on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Save 50% on The Excavation of Hob's Barrow on Steam

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the s...

store.steampowered.com

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 2d

Our violinist @mollynina.bsky.social headed to Rome this week and made us all jealous by visiting the Amano Corpus Animae exhibit!

Amazing artwork 🎮❤️

#FinalFantasy #YoshitakaAmano @square-enix-games.com @ffviirjp.bsky.social

Illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy X

Illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VI

Illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VII and VIII

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 3d

I'll be heading to #egx London this month!

If any game studio or gaming-adjacent brand representatives are heading there too, I'd love to chat about the @ivgorchestra.com and our plans for next year: big, ambitious plans with a massive orchestra and well known special guests 👀

Oct 24-26! #vgm

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 7d

At least most of the cutting ones are just PR comments

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 7d

I'm 35 now and have been doing some form of live music for more than half my life. So these comments don't really bother me.

However, we are a group of musicians with a wide range of experience. What we don't show are the more targeted comments. Those get deleted. People are awful behind a screen.

Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 7d

Always fun to get these types of comments. Fellow content creators, what's your way of dealing with a negative Nancy?

Our new tactic is to pin them.
#youtube #vgm

Youtube comment pinned that says "That was truly awful. Don't give up your day jobs".

Reply stating "Thank you for watching! As we are all volunteers, we do have day jobs."

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 7d

I am awash with great voice acting choices right now.... #FinalFantasyTactics, #FadingEcho alpha, and #GhostOfYotei?!

How am I meant to get anything done with this banquet of gaming?

Shoutout to @samanthabeart.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @erikaishii.bsky.social and everyone for their work!

Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 8d

It's been a busy 24 hours of coding, editing videos, after effects stuff on top, making shorts, scheduling shorts, sharing shorts, and all the other social media tasks that aren't my favourite thing in the world to do

But now, it's lunch time, and I am taking an hour to play Tactics! #finalfantasy

A steam deck in a coffee shop with final fantasy tactics loaded

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Nikita Malko @nikitamalko.bsky.social · 12d

🎮 Day 334 of sharing my video game music daily on Bsky!

While wandering through the ancient forest you stumble upon the ruins of an old church...

#videogames #gamedev #indiedev #gameaudio
youtube.com/shorts/kcbXD...

You have discovered ruins of an ancient church deep in the forest

YouTube video by Nikita Malko

youtube.com

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Mat Ombler @matombler.bsky.social · 14d

Give this a listen if you want to learn more about what goes into creating a GRAMMY-winning video game arrangement and the amazing communities surrounding video game music covers and arrangements!

GXM podcast @gxmpodcast.bsky.social · 15d

GXM #51: Is video game music this generation’s Great American Songbook? We chatted with 2x Tony & GRAMMY-winning composerproducer, Charlie Rosen, about his journey from Broadway to the 8-Bit Big Band.

Find it wherever you get your podcasts & please share + subscribe!

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 14d

Do you play an orchestral instrument? Do you enjoy video game music?

JOIN US!

We're recruiting in all sections, but particularly interested in Violins, Violas, French Horns, Bassoons and Double Basses.

Link in comments to our new member form!
#vgm #orchestra #belfast #ireland

Ready to press start on your next adventure? The Irish Video Game Orchestra is recruiting for all instruments and voices for our upcoming season! Whether you're a video game music enthusiast or a classical music aficionado, you could be the player two we need.

We're especially interested to hear from:
Violins
Violas
French Horns
Bassoons
(Double Basses)

Get in touch at info@ivgorchestra.com or hit up the new member interest form in our bio!

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 16d

Nice kit @ericwbrown.bsky.social 🥁♥️

My drummer friend reliably informs me it's a Tama star classic drum kit with a pearl free floating brass snare

And he's impressed 😎

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 16d

🚨New video!🚨

Tune in on our YouTube channel to hear two of
@jasongravesmusic.bsky.social's pieces from Heroes of Might and Magic! Thanks Jason 🎮♥️

Link below! Because we don't need to worry here unlike other platforms 👀
#vgm #gamemusic @ubisoft.com

youtu.be/EMvIyqRkHwI

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 16d

As a quiet socials person I often do things and forget I need to post about it

Recent doings:
- fundraising for @ivgorchestra.com
- three secret #vgm projects collaborating with some awesome musician
- my actual software job 🫠
- music directing for @ivgorchestra.com, new arrangements and videos 👇

Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 17d

🚨New video at 3pm today🚨

HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC!

Here's an intro from the composer himself, the wonderful @jasongravesmusic.bsky.social 🎮♥️

#mightandmagic #vgm #gamemusic @ubisoft.com

youtube.com/shorts/2j16I...

Heroes of Might and Magic (@JasonGravesMusic) by live orchestra #vgm #ivgo

YouTube video by Irish Video Game Orchestra

youtube.com

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · 21d

Rehearsals this week included a little Metal Gear Solid...

📦🐍

Listen out for our violinist Julie cheering at the end!

#metalgearsolid #METALGEARSOLIDΔ
@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp
@konamina.bsky.social

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · 21d

Already loving it! Great job everyone - @nolanmarkey.bsky.social I would love to chat about bringing it into @ivgorchestra.com's rep 🙂

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 27d

thanks for coming to the premiere of VS. Rival!!

the new track AND one other new one are now included in the Bandcamp album, which is now 66 whole tracks!! you can hear them both in-game in the milestone update tomorrow!!

radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/beasti...

BEASTIEBALL Original Sound Track, by Lena Raine

66 track album

radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Sep 7

Had a great birthday weekend filled with my favourite things: sweet treats, coffee and TV with @aileenhumphreys.bsky.social, making music, and playing #silksong and Alan Wake II.

A lovely friend gifted me silksong without even knowing it was my birthday, what are the chances?! 🪲

Birthday bunting and crunchy nut cereal on a countertop

A steam gift screenshot of hollow knight silksong

A mini French fancy with a candle on top, and a toblerone

A Cubase screenshot with parts being built up across multiple instruments

Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 24

That corridor in Resident Evil 1...

two dogs are standing in the snow and looking at the camera

Alt: two dogs are standing in the snow and looking at the camera

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 22

After 2 days at Gamescom please enjoy my alarm clock strategy for the flight home #gamescom

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Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 20

I am a burger in Düsseldorf #gamescom

Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 20

Hey sleep deprived friend! Similar route but from Dublin 🇮🇪

Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 20

Is there anything more Irish than an automatic food delivery robot saying "Here I am!" and an old Irish man shouting "HOWAREYA?"

yes, grass and rain

Adam Humphreys @adamh.ivgorchestra.com · Aug 20

where are you all going Dublin it's 5am

En route to #Gamescom!

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · Aug 18

If you're at #gamescom this week - so are we! Let's chat:

🎮Partnerships for our 2026 concerts
🕹️Permission to arrange and perform cool music!
📰Promotion! Would love to connect with media reps

Our AMD @adamh.ivgorchestra.com is there Wednesday/Thursday in the business area!
#vgm #gamemusic

Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · Aug 18

Turned down for public funding again, 2nd time in a month.

The advice remains: "try again next time" - we've been trying for 10 years! Meanwhile, surviving on our own

The arts scene in #NorthernIreland is deprived, with the minister in charge completely absent...

We'll keep promoting #vgm though

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