David Wise (composer)

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David Wise is a composer known for his work with video game developer Rare on the Donkey Kong Country series. He left the company in 2009.

biography

Before joining Rare , Wise was employed in a music store in Leicester . There he wrote his first digital music on the Yamaha CX5 music computer . When he demonstrated the device to the Rare managing directors Tim and Chris Stamper , he got a job in their company. He composed music for video games on the Nintendo consoles NES , SNES , Nintendo 64 , GameCube and Game Boy Advance .

In 2009 David Wise left Rare after it was acquired by Microsoft and changed direction towards sports games and Kinect . He continued to work as a composer and sound designer on video games and other digital media for his own company, David Wise Sound Studios and Music Publishing . For Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze , published in 2014 , he returned to the DKC series as a composer .

Works

Wise wrote music for the following video games:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Computer and Video Games ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): LIKE: The music of Rare's David Wise , October 11, 2012 (English, accessed March 10, 2014)
  2. ↑ polygon.com : Synth, big band jazz and the remaking of Donkey Kong Country's amazing sound , March 5, 2014 (English, accessed March 10, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b nintendolife.com : Month Of Kong: Tropical Freeze Composer David Wise On Working With The Ape Again , February 28, 2014 (English, accessed March 10, 2014)
  4. ↑ Game music of the day: Snake Rattle n 'Roll . In: gamesradar . ( gamesradar.com [accessed November 13, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Official Nintendo Magazine UK ( Memento from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): Tengami coming to Wii U eShop in June , February 20, 2014 (English, accessed March 10, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Wise, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wise, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Video game music composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century