Lawrence Schwedler directs the Music and Sound Design programs at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington. He is the owner of Schwedbeast Studios, a music production company that produces music and sound for video games and film. Lawrence has thirty years of experience in the video game industry as a composer, sound designer, audio director, and music producer. He was audio director for Nintendo Software Technology from 1999 to 2012. His latest project is the DigiPen Game Band, a faculty group performing music from games Lawrence and his colleagues have worked on.