Jeremy Soule

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Jeremy Soule (born December 19, 1975 in Keokuk , Iowa ) is an American composer , primarily in the field of video game soundtracks.

biography

While in high school, Soule developed a love for video game and computer music. It so happened that after graduating from high school, he made a demo tape showing his understanding of video game music. He sent this to the big game manufacturers LucasArts and Square . The latter promptly signed him for Secret of Evermore . The result was a mix of soft orchestral music and background noise, which is atypical for video game soundtracks. In his later soundtracks he oriented himself more towards classical-romantic than electronic music, albeit often rhythm-heavy or with folkloric accents (Prey). Occasionally Soule also uses synthesizers (Unreal II), but his music usually remains orchestral.

When Ron Gilbert (a former LucasArts employee) founded his own company, Humongous Entertainment, Soule moved from Square to this company to create the soundtracks for the children's adventure series Töff-Töff (English: Putt-Putt ) and Pajama Sam (English: Pajama Sam ) to write. When Chris Taylor met Soule, he hired him to write the soundtracks for his major projects, Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege . In between these two projects, Soule started his own company Artistry Entertainment to work as a freelance composer.

Since then, Artistry Entertainment has grown and Soule has received orders for successful blockbuster games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and the Harry Potter video game series. These projects helped Soule become one of the most sought-after composers in the video game soundtrack industry (alongside Nobuo Uematsu and Kōji Kondō ).

Soule is also a remixer on OverClocked ReMix. His remix of the Final Fantasy VI song “Terra's Theme”, Squaresoft Variation, impressively demonstrates his orchestration skills.

Soule is also the initiator of the DirectSong game interface, which enables new music to be added to games and played in addition to the existing soundtrack.

For the soundtrack of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind , he was nominated for "Game Soundtrack of the Year" by Game Industry News. Four of his pieces received the 2002 Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences . Morrowind was performed as part of the Symphonic Game Music Concert under Andy Brick on August 17, 2005 by the FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague in the Gewandhaus Leipzig and on a world tour by Play! A Video Game Symphony from 2006. In 2006, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion won the MTV Video Music Award in the “Best Video Game Score” category. Project leader Todd Howard hired Jeremy Soule again to write the soundtrack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim .

Nominations

Awards

In 2009, as a composer by IGN , he was counted among the 100 most important game developers of all time.

Work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clayton Kauzlaric: TA-ncient History # .05: The Happy Layoff ( en ) Ton of Clay. September 10, 2006. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Andrew Langerman: The Soule of Gaming, Talking with Jeremy Soule ( English ) UGO Entertainment . 2002. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2009.
  3. ^ The Concert Programs. In: Symphonic Game Music Concerts. Merregnon Studios, archived from the original on January 7, 2008 ; accessed on September 2, 2008 .
  4. ↑ IGN editorial team: Best of 2000 Awards ( English ) In: IGN . IGN . January 26, 2001. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ Gamespot editors: Best and Worse of 2000 ( English ) In: GameSpot . CNET . December 2000. Archived from the original on June 10, 2001. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ Best & Worst Awards 1997 - Special Achievement Awards - Best Music ( English ) In: GameSpot . CNET . Retrieved on December 7, 2011: “ The soundtrack on the CD was done by a professional orchestra - and sounds incredible. It easily rivals Hollywood's best .... - Jeff Graber, GameSpot Player Review "
  7. ↑ 86. Jeremy Soule ( English ) In: IGN . News Corp . 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. 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. Retrieved June 5, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / games.ign.com
personal data
SURNAME Soule, Jeremy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Keokuk , Iowa