Richard Joseph

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Richard Joseph (born April 23, 1953 - March 4, 2007 ) was a British computer game musician, musician and sound engineer. His career spanned a period of almost 20 years, from the early days of the C64 and Amiga to successful PC game soundtracks of the early 21st century.

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Richard Joseph came from a family of artists. His brother Eddy was the supervisor for the sound u. a. responsible for films like Harry Potter and James Bond . His brother Pat is the director of The Mill , which won an Oscar for the film Gladiator . His nephew Alex is also a supervisor and his father Teddy (1918-2006) was a producer and worked on films by John Schlesinger and Alfred Hitchcock , among others .

Before getting into gaming, Joseph had a brief career in the music industry, working with artists such as Trevor Horn and Hugh Padgham . Joseph released a solo album on EMI and was a member of the group CMU, which released two albums on Transatlantic before transforming into the jazz-funk band Shakatak .

Joseph is considered a pioneer of game scoring. He has become known for the fact that he for the first time incorporated "real" speaking voices into a game ( Mega lo Mania ), through the earliest use of interactive music ( Chaos Engine ), his collaboration with well-known musicians ( Betty Boo at Magic Pockets , Captain Sensible at Sensible Soccer , Brian May in Rise of the Robots and Jon Foxx in Gods and Speedball 2 ) and the use of vocals in theme music, which was revolutionary in its time.

In the late 80s and early 90s he produced soundtracks for the well-known game developers Sensible Software and the Bitmap Brothers . He was also responsible for the soundtrack of the C64 version of the hit Defender of the Crown . He then established Audio Interactive at Pinewood Film Studios and helped Electronic Arts win the BAFTA Award for Best Sound 2000 for the Theme Park World game. Joseph's own soundtrack for Cannon Fodder GBA was nominated in the same year and to date is the only small format soundtrack that has ever been nominated by BAFTA . He produced soundtracks for Republic: The Revolution and Evil Genius for Elixir Studios (both earned Bafta nominations for music) and eventually moved to France, where he ran a company called SoundTropez , which produced modern soundtracks.

After he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he died of the disease on March 4, 2007.

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SURNAME Joseph, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer game musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1953
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2007