The composer of the only audio file in the game Spirit of the Stones belonged to which group
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Spirit of the Stones Spirit of the Stones is an action video game that runs on the Commodore 64 and takes place on the Isle of Wight. It is based on a book by John Howard Worsley. The one and only audio file used in the entire game is Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain composed by Chris Cox.
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Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский ; ] ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881 ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite (later known as Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio, and often abbreviated BAD) is a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones. The group is noted for its effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk. BAD's one constant throughout frequent shifts in membership and musical direction is the vocals provided by Mick Jones. After releasing a number of well-received albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Big Audio Dynamite disbanded in 1997. In 2011, the band embarked on a reunion tour.
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Simon Power (composer) Simon Power (born 14 February 1958) is an English composer & sound designer, best known for his work on the BBC's Classic Novelisation range of "Doctor Who" audiobooks.
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Fred Gray (composer) Fred Gray is a composer of video game music. Among his works on Commodore 64 are "Shadowfire", "Mutants", "Madballs" and "Enigma Force". On the Amiga he made the music for games such as "Black Lamp", "Eco", "Stargoose" and "Victory Road".
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Miki Gavrielov Miki Gavrielov (מיקי גבריאלוב ; born 1949) is an Israeli composer and performer of folk/rock music. His career spans many decades, beginning with being a member of rock group The Churchills. Many of the most popular songs sung by Arik Einstein were ones for which Miki Gavrielov wrote the music. Writing his own songs and performing on his own, Miki Gavrielov brought in influences from other Mediterranean countries, notably Turkey, from which some of his ancestors immigrated to Israel. Gavrielov has released at least 17 studio albums.
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Junichi Masuda Junichi Masuda (増田 順一 , Masuda Jun'ichi , born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, and programmer best known for his work in the "Pokémon" franchise. He is a member of the Game Freak board of directors, and has been employed at the company since 1989.
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Konami Kukeiha Club Konami Kukeiha Club (コナミ矩形波倶楽部 , konami kukeiha kurabu , lit. "Konami Square Wave Club", referring to square waves used in chiptunes in the 1980s) is Konami's sound team. It is often confused with 矩形波倶楽部 (Kukeiha Club), Konami's in-house band that has released albums consisting of their studio performances. They are primarily responsible for the sound and music in the majority of Konami video games. One of their best known works is the soundtrack to Genso Suikoden — the majority of the material being composed by member Miki Higashino (Miki-Chan). Motoaki Furukawa (main arranger and guitarist) has been known to perform live with members not part of the in-house band, credited under "Konami Kukeiha Club". For example, disc 1 of the "Konami All Stars: The Senryo-Bako Heisei 4 Nen Ban" album (KICA-1053~55) is titled "Konami Kukeiha Club Live in Tōkyō."
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Music of Final Fantasy X The music of the video game "Final Fantasy X" was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu, along with Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano. It was the first title in the main "Final Fantasy" series in which Uematsu was not the sole composer. The "Final Fantasy X Original Soundtrack" was released on four Compact Discs in 2001 by DigiCube, and was re-released in 2004 by Square Enix. Prior to the album's North American release, a reduced version entitled "Final Fantasy X Original Soundtrack" was released on a single disk by Tokyopop in 2002. An EP entitled "feel/Go dream: Yuna & Tidus" containing additional singles not present in the game was released by DigiCube in 2001. "Piano Collections Final Fantasy X", a collection of piano arrangements of the original soundtracks by Masashi Hamauzu and performed by Aki Kuroda, was released by DigiCube in 2002 and re-released by Square EA in 2004. A collection of vocal arrangements of pieces from the game arranged by Katsumi Suyama along with radio drama tracks was released as "Final Fantasy X Vocal Collection" in 2002 by DigiCube.
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Hiroya Hatsushiba Hiroya Hatsushiba (Japanese: 初芝 弘也 , "Hatsushiba Hiroya") is the founder of video game developer tri-Crescendo, and a long time sound programmer for composer Motoi Sakuraba, whom he also gives English titles of the tracks Sakuraba creates.
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Tappi Iwase Tappi Iwase (岩瀬 立飛 , Iwase Tappi ) , sometimes credited professionally as TAPPY, is a Japanese musical composer. He is best known for his contributions to the "Metal Gear" and "Suikoden" franchises.
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Final Fantasy concerts "Final Fantasy" is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The original Final Fantasy video game, published in 1987, is a role-playing video game developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise. The primary composer of music for the main series was Nobuo Uematsu, who single-handedly composed the soundtracks for the first nine games, as well as directing the production of many of the soundtrack albums. Music for the spin-off series and main series games beginning with "Final Fantasy X" was created by a variety of composers including Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Kumi Tanioka, as well as many others.
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AudioGaming AudioGaming is a French company developing procedural audio tools dedicated to sound designers and video game developers. It was founded in 2009 by Amaury La Burthe.
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Jeroen Tel Jeroen Godfried Tel (born 19 May 1972), also known as WAVE, is a Dutch composer and video-game pioneer. He is best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64. His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: "Combat Crazy", "Cybernoid", "Cybernoid II", "Dan Dare 3", "Eliminator", "Hawkeye", "", "Nighthunter", "Robocop 3", "Rubicon" (title music), and "Supremacy".
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Yasushi Asada Yasushi Asada (浅田靖) is a video game music composer who has contributed songs to the soundtracks of "" and "Castlevania Judgment". He is a member of Noisycroak, a Tokyo-based sound design company focused on game soundtracks. He has a background in hard rock and heavy metal guitar composition and performance.
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Music of the Final Fantasy VII series "Final Fantasy VII" is a role-playing video game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the "Final Fantasy" series. Released in 1997, the game sparked the release of a collection of media centered on the game entitled the "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII". The music of the "Final Fantasy VII" series includes not only the soundtrack to the original game and its associated albums, but also the soundtracks and music albums released for the other titles in the collection. The first album produced was "Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack", a compilation of all the music in the game. It was released as a soundtrack album on four CDs by DigiCube in 1997. A selection of tracks from the album was released in the single-disc "Reunion Tracks" by DigiCube the same year. "Piano Collections Final Fantasy VII", an album featuring piano arrangements of pieces from the soundtrack, was released in 2003 by DigiCube, and Square Enix began reprinting all three albums in 2004. To date, these are the only released albums based on the original game's soundtrack, and were solely composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu; his role for the majority of subsequent albums has been filled by Masashi Hamauzu and Takeharu Ishimoto.
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Kirite Kirite (キ リ テ ) , officially typeset kiЯitɘ (see album art), is a 2005 album composed by Yasunori Mitsuda based on "The Five Seasons of Kirite", a story by Masato Kato. Unlike their other previous major collaborations like "Chrono Trigger", "Xenogears" and "Chrono Cross", "Kirite" was never developed and published as a video game, but published as musical album bundled with Masato Kato's story text in Japanese and a collection of artistic nature photographs. The music of "Kirite" incorporates Celtic music, jazz and ambient noise influences.
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Vangelis Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( ] ; born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis ( ] ; English pronunciation: ), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film "Chariots of Fire", composing scores for the films "Blade Runner", "Missing", "Antarctica", "", and "Alexander", and the use of his music in the PBS documentary "" by Carl Sagan.
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Symphonic Legends – Music from Nintendo Symphonic Legends – Music from Nintendo was a symphonic tribute concert held in Cologne, Germany on 23 September 2010 by the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, featuring video game music from Japanese game developer Nintendo. The concert featured symphonic arrangements found in some of Nintendo's biggest game series, such as "Legend of Zelda", "Super Mario Bros.", "Pikmin", "F-Zero" and "Donkey Kong". The concert was produced and directed by Thomas Böcker, with arrangements provided by Finnish composers and musicians Jonne Valtonen and Roger Wanamo, as well as Japanese game music composers Masashi Hamauzu, Hayato Matsuo, Shiro Hamaguchi and German film composer Torsten Rasch.
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Gemini Suite After the 1969 classical / rock fusion "Concerto for Group and Orchestra", Jon Lord was commissioned to write a follow-up. This was Gemini Suite, five long movements inspired by the members of Deep Purple, and performed live in September 1970 at the Royal Festival Hall with The Light Music Society Orchestra (the album of the concert was issued in 1993 as "Gemini Suite Live"). Jon Lord then recorded it in the studio as his first solo project in 1971, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold and soloists drawn from the rock world. "Gemini Suite" was an important step for Lord and led to albums such as "Windows" (1974) and "Sarabande" (1976).
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A Tribe Called Red A Tribe Called Red is a Canadian electronic music group, who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, the group consists of three DJs: Ian "DJ NDN" Campeau (of the Nipissing First Nation), Tim "2oolman" Hill (Mohawk, of the Six Nations of the Grand River), and Ehren "Bear Witness" Thomas (of the Cayuga First Nation). Former member Dan "DJ Shub" General left the band for personal reasons in spring 2014, and was replaced by Hill.
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Hitman: Codename 47 / Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Hitman: Codename 47 / Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is an album containing the soundtracks of the first two "Hitman" video games, both composed by Jesper Kyd. The score of the first game, "", is entirely electronic. The score of the second game, "", was performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and the Hungarian Radio Choir, conducted by Béla Drahos. The album features full editions of both scores, as well as less known material from early demos. The first game's score had never been commercially released before the release of this compilation. The album is a very good indicator of Kyd's musical style and how it has developed from its roots, especially within the "Hitman" franchise.