Sonia Coronado

Sonia Coronado Cuesta

Seasoned music designer currently working at PlayStation. Career spans six years with experience in game audio music leadership, cross-disciplinary creative collaborations between composers, dialogue designers, and sound designers, and developing editing and implementation resources. Shipped multiple AAA titles as a key contributor for audio teams in design and lead roles. Skilled in vision-keeping, process improvement for game music production, recording pipelines, and technical music design.

Skills

Music Production Leadership
Music Design and Implementation
Composition and Orchestration
Arranging and Editing
Documentation
Communication
Relationship Building
Creative Mentorship
Wwise
Pro Tools
Sibelius
Finale
Logic Pro
Microsoft Excel
PowerPoint
Confluence
Jira
Perforce

Experience

Senior Music Designer
PlayStation Studios™ Creative Arts
6/1/2019 - Present

Education

Master of Music, Screen Scoring
University of Southern California
1/1/2019 - 12/31/2019 Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Music, Film Scoring and Performance
Berklee College of Music
1/1/2018 - 12/31/2018 Boston, MA

Projects

Music Production Lead, God of War Ragnarök (2023)
PlayStation
1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023 Los Angeles, USA
Oversaw full scope of music production efforts through the development pipeline including project initialization, tools configuration, design documentation and production planning.
Collaborated directly with game director and audio director to fulfill the director's vision for the music and provided departmental guidance to sustain creative consistency through release.
Maintained relationships between internal and external disciplines to ensure healthy collaborations with dialogue, music, and sound design teams, in-house supervisors, and the developer's leadership team.
Responsible for design, editing, and implementation of complex interactive music systems using Wwise and Pro Tools, actively managed reviews, approvals, and deliveries.
Music Editor, Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
PlayStation
1/1/2020 - 12/31/2020 Los Angeles, USA
Authored music assets from composer deliveries into interactive music and linear content for in game use, as well as marketing material leading up to release using Pro Tools.
Collaborated with the internal music team to implement music assets using Wwise and proprietary tools for cinematic and gameplay content, as well as testing the game for music bugs and documenting those.
Documented and updated game information throughout the last year of development to facilitate music implementation and testing for the internal music team.

Contact

scoronadocuesta@gmail.com

(857) 200-6930

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