Episode 4241 - Mason Lieberman

Breaking the Biz Podcast

Mason Lieberman is an award-winning composer, audio director, and producer known for his contributions to the gaming and anime zeitgeist. He prides himself on being a problem-solver whose biggest passion is always to connect people through music.
Having started his professional journey as a freelance composer, he is most known for his work composing on anime series like Rooster Teeth's RWBY and Beyblade Burst Evolution, amongst many others. His music has enhanced the heroics of franchises like Spider-Man, Mobile Suit Gundam, Ultraman, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, while lending epic gravitas to titles like Apex Legends Mobile, Eden, Game for Peace, Devil Engine, Renaine, and many others. In 2019, he partnered with Asia Pacific government officials as an international ambassador to Australia representing the video-game music industry. As a multi-instrumentalist, Mason has had the great pleasure of working with a wide variety of media franchises, with personal favorites including Pokémon, Stars Wars: Visions, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. franchise, Riot Games' League of Legends, AMC's The Walking Dead, Made in Abyss, Eden, Tower of God, Warhammer: Vermintide, Hell's Kitchen, and God Eater.
As a public speaker, Mason Lieberman has addressed passionate audiences on subjects related to film scoring, anime music production, video game scoring, and music theory. He has lectured academically at Harvard University, UCLA Musicians Institute, Berklee College of Music, Stephen F. Austin State University, and many others.
He was thrilled to present the official Cowboy Bebop charity single, ‘The Real Folk Blues’, in collaboration with Funimation, Sunrise, featuring special guest artists like Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, Steve Blum, and many more. This original arrangement hit #6 on Billboard global Digital song sales chart, as well as #1 on rock charts in Japan. In 2021, he shared the ‘Best Score’ award at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

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