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Subject: jesper kyd
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gooji 25.08.12 - 12:42pm
Danish composer jesper started playing piano at an early age. Later, he took several years of training in classical guitar, note reading, choir singing and classical composition for piano. However, he is mostly self-taught Kyd started using computers for composing on a Commodore 64 at age 14, and later an Amiga. He and Mikael Balle became members of the demo group Silents DK, and later started collaborating with a group of coders known as Crionics. They eventually made the Amiga demoscene produ * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:42pm
Kyd then left the demo scene and started to work as a game musician. He and others created the computer game developer Zyrinx and a game called Sub-Terrania for the Sega Genesis. The team relocated to Boston. Kyd composed music for two additional Zyrinx titles, Red Zone and Scorcher and the music for two externally developed games, Amok and The Adventures of Batman and Robin. When their game publisher Scavenger went bankrupt the Zyrinx team dissolved. * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:44pm
Many former Zyrinx members returned to Denmark to start IO Interactive. Kyd moved to New York City and set up his own sound studio in Manhattan called Nano studios. He worked as a freelance computer game musician. He worked on Bioware's MDK2: Armageddon, Shiny's Messiah and IOs h*tman: Codename 47. The soundtrack to Codename 47 was based on urban soundscapes and ethnic instrumentation. He then recorded the soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin with 110 musicians of the Budapest Symph * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:47pm
Orchestra and Choir. He recorded the score for the action/adventure Freedom Fighters with the Hungarian Radio choir. It was described by Film Score Monthly Magazine as Vangelis on steroids. Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards nominated him for Best Use of Soundtrack, and Game Audio Network Guild Awards nominated him for Best Original Vocal Song Choral (for Main Title and March of the Empire). Leading video game web site GameSpot awarded Freedom Fighters Best Music of the Year. * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:47pm
He used modern electronica and symphonic and choral music in Hitman: Contracts. It was awarded Best Original Music by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the 2005 BAFTA Games Awards and won Best Cinematic / Cut-Scene Audio at the 2005 G.A.N.G. Awards. * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:48pm
Kyd then provided the music for Ubisofts Assassin's Creed, created by developer Patrice Desilets.He produced a cinematic score for Altairs Middle-Eastern story. He then produced the music for Assassin's Creed II, recorded in Los Angeles. Kyd wrote the score for the action/adventure Darksiders II, * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:49pm
thought I'd bore the simpletons with this but to those who care, the man does some fantastic work, he's lined up for assassins creed 3 and borderlands 2 * +

gooji 25.08.12 - 12:50pm
his works include 2012 - Borderlands 2 2012 - Darksiders II 2012 - Heroes and Generals 2012 - Soulcalibur V (provided a remix of the track Venice Rooftops from Assassin's Creed II) 2011 - Forza Motorsport 4 2011 - Assassin's Creed: Revelations (with Lorne Balfe) 2010 - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (10) 2009 - Assassin's Creed II 2009 - Borderlands 2008 - The Chronicles of Spellborn 2008 - The Club (main theme) 2007 - Assassin's Creed 2007 - Unreal Tournament 3 (with Rom Di Prisco) 2007 - * +

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