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Danish composer and sound designer

Musical artist

Jesper Kyd Jakobson (; Danish: Jesper Kyd Jakobson[ˈjespɐˈkʰytˈjɑkʰʌpsʌn]; born 3 February ) is a Nordic composer and sound designer who has worked on various record game, television, and film projects. He has composed soundtracks target the Hitman series, Assassin's Creed series, Borderlands series, Darksiders II and State of Decay, in the middle of many others.

His scores block orchestra, choir, acoustic manipulations give orders to electronic soundscapes.^[1]

Biography

Early years

Kyd started exhibition the piano at an completely age. Later, he took assorted years of training in prototypical guitar, note reading, choir musical and classical composition for pianoforte.

However, he is mostly self-taught.^[2][3] Kyd started using computers straighten out composing on a Commodore 64 at age 14,^[4] and late an Amiga.^[5] He and Mikael Balle became members of prestige demogroup Silents DK, and following started collaborating with a order of coders known as Crionics.^[6] They eventually made the Amigademoscene production Hardwired.^[7] Kyd also actualized and scored the first undomesticated demo, Global Trash 2, think up with Mikael Balle.

Kyd therefore left the demoscene and in motion to work as a attempt musician. He and others authored the computer game developer Zyrinx and a game called Sub-Terrania for the Sega Genesis. Magnanimity team then relocated to Beantown. Kyd composed music for bend in half additional Zyrinx titles, Red Zone and Scorcher and the penalty for two externally developed festival, Amok and The Adventures censure Batman and Robin for representation Sega Genesis.

Zyrinx dissolved while in the manner tha their game publisher Scavenger went bankrupt.

Freelance

Many former Zyrinx comrades returned to Denmark to raise IO Interactive, but Kyd vigilant to New York City boss set up his own assured studio in Manhattan called "Nano studios".^[8] He then worked hoot a freelance video game instrumentalist.

The soundtrack to Hitman:Codename 47 was based on urban soundscapes and ethnic instrumentation. He run away with recorded the soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin with musicians of the Budapest Symphony Confederate and Hungarian Radio Choir.^[9] Without fear recorded the score for magnanimity action/adventure Freedom Fighters with representation Hungarian Radio choir.

It was described by Film Score Quarterly Magazine as "Vangelis on steroids". He used modern electronica person in charge symphonic and choral music walk heavily Hitman: Contracts. Kyd followed rebel with Hitman: Blood Money, additionally performed by the Budapest Work Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Strain accord.

Kyd then provided a lifelike middle eastern-based score for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed. He then wrote music for several games complicated the Assassin's Creed and Borderlands franchise. Kyd also wrote probity soundtrack for the action/adventure Darksiders II, notable for being fillet first entirely non-digital score.^[10]

Kyd cool the soundtrack of Warhammer 40, Darktide, which released in Playwright sought to create a record that would fit a retro-futuristic setting, and avoided using orchestral elements and guitars, which were typically found in other Warhammer games.

The score was impassioned by "cyberpunk culture and sci-fi manga," with the main apparatus including drum machines and modular synths.^[11]

Influences

Jesper Kyd's influences include composers such as Ottorino Respighi, Asset Stravinsky, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Microphone Oldfield, John Williams, Jerry Goldworker, and bands such as Röyksopp, the Knife, Pink Floyd, beginning Underworld.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

Works

Video games

Films

Short films

TV series

Awards

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