Inon Zur

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Inon Zur

Inon Zur , Hebrew ינון צור (born July 4, 1965 in Israel ) is an Israeli-American composer for film , television and computer games .

Life

Inon Zur was born in Israel . He learned to play the piano from the age of eight . He graduated from the Music Academy of Tel Aviv , and studied from around 1990 at the Dick Grove School of Music and the University of California , Los Angeles. He then set to music over 360 episodes from various television series, starting with the Fox Family Channel . Agent and mentor Bob Rice then persuaded him to give video games a try, which at the time seemed like "noise and beeps" to him .

He lives and works in Los Angeles .

The works of the "A 'list composers" are predominantly orchestral and comparable to Hollywood composers such as Steve Jablonsky , the German Hans Zimmer or Basil Poledouris . With powerful brass players and complex, unruly percussion patterns, he often drives his compositions to remarkable climaxes, such as heard in the fully electronic Fallout 3 . He also proved himself with calming and atmospheric pieces, think of minimalist melodies like in the procedurally generated Crysis or Prince of Persia , who even conjures up Lawrence of Arabia ( Maurice Jarre ).

Crysis was recorded by the Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra in Seattle and was on the program of the Video Games Live concert on August 20, 2008 in the Leipzig Arena . Zur has already recorded with well-known orchestras such as the Seattle Symphony , the Salt Lake City Symphony , the Tel Aviv Symphony and the Eblana Chamber Choir from Dublin . For Men of Valor , he received the Game Audio Network Guild (GANG) Award . Fallout 3 is nominated for the British Academy Video Games Awards . He also wrote B2B music for film trailers for Hollywood blockbusters (not available in stores). In terms of software and standards, he works with modern MIDI , GigaStudio Samples, Pro Tools and Cubase VST 5.1 .

He told Team Xbox : “On television or in the cinema, you hang on to the picture. [...] In games you write pieces of music that stand on their own ” and IGN : “ I think music is an emotional dimension […] I play what the player should feel instead of describing what he is looking at . "

Discography

Games unless otherwise stated. Excerpts

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This article was based in part in the first version on February 27, 2009 on a translation of the article from the English language Wikipedia in the version of February 27, 2009. A list of the authors is available here .
  2. ↑ a b c d César A. Berardini: Inon to the interview. (No longer available online.) In: Team Xbox. August 20, 2004, archived from the original on February 26, 2011 ; accessed on February 27, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / interviews.teamxbox.com
  3. ↑ among others in Henry Mancini , MobyGames , s. Web links.
  4. ↑ a b c Electronic Arts , p. Web links.
  5. ↑ a b Biography. In: www.inonzur.com. Inon Zur, accessed on February 27, 2009 (English).
  6. ↑ a b MobyGames , s. Web links.
  7. ↑ a b c "retro nuclear war kind of thing." (Inon Zur) Spence D .: Inon Zur Talks Fallout 3. (No longer available online.) In: IGN . November 3, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 27, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / uk.music.ign.com  
  8. ↑ Randall D. Larson : Soundtrax: Episode 2008-8. In: www.buysoundtrax.com. April 8, 2008, accessed February 27, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Greg O'Connor-Read: Inon Zur scores Crysis groundbreaking video game. In: SoundtrackNet. August 10, 2007, accessed February 27, 2009 .
  10. ↑ World Premiere of Crysis to be Performed at Video Games Live in Leipzig. In: videogameslive.com. Mystical Stone Entertainment, LLC, August 10, 2008, accessed February 27, 2009 .
  11. ↑ cf. BMG Zomba Releases New Collection of Movie Trailer Music; Composer Inon Zur Scores Dramatic Fantastic Trailer Album for Use in Motion Picture Advertising. In: Business Wire. Business Wire, March 15, 2006, retrieved February 27, 2009 from Findarticles.
  12. ↑ Game Development Gallery - Inon Zur. In: Gamasutra . CMP Media LLC, archived from the original on May 13, 2009 ; accessed on August 13, 2012 .
  13. ↑ "it can't ever really compare to a real orchestra" (Inon Zur) Electronic Arts , s. Web links.
  14. ↑ IMDb , s. Web links.
personal data
SURNAME To, Inon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ינון צור
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel