Lawrence Schwedler
Director, Music and Sound Design degree programs
DigiPen Institute of Technology
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Lawrence Schwedler is a musician with twenty years of experience in the video game industry as a composer, 
sound designer, and audio director. In 1993 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in classical guitar 
performance and electronic music from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a founding member of 
the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet, an avant-garde chamber ensemble which toured Europe, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. 
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From 1999 to 2012 he worked for Nintendo Software Technology as Audio Director, 
where he produced music and sound for fifteen game titles and received credit as co-author on two United States patents, 
one for interactive real time music composition and another for interactive wave table sound generation. 
In 2012 he left Nintendo to design and direct two new undergraduate degree programs in music and sound 
design at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond. 
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He lives in Sammamish, Washington with his wife, artist Randi Ganulin, accompanied from time to time by their son and daughter.