ABOUT

Mick Gordon is a composer and sound designer whose compositions aim to transcend the perceptual boundary between music and its context.  Mick’s work considers the role of music as a translation of the world in which it exists rather than a simple accompaniment.  Through creativity, interpretation and collaboration he develops a meaningful exchange between the visual world and music culminating in the authorship of a unified original work of art.

Mick utilises a broad range of modern musical sound design and traditional composition techniques in order to be unconstrained by any singular genre.  His music is inspired by the connection between the audience and the experience and seeks to overcome the separation between music and the world in which it exists.

Recently, Mick scored the video game DOOM - the return of id Software’s seminal first-person shooter.  To illustrate the game’s portrayal of Hell and its insidious power he explored the role of energy in sound production and how the physical properties of analogue equipment can be imparted onto digital sources.

His award-winning interactive score for Microsoft’s reboot of KILLER INSTINCT featured a myriad of performers from around the globe.  Mick collaborated with a viking choir in Sweden, representatives of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho and numerous other performers, vocalists, lyricists and translators to produce its Amazon best-selling soundtrack.

Mick’s score for the video game, WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER interweaves modern musical sound design techniques with 1960s style record production.  He synthesised field recordings and transformed them into new physically playable instruments to create unique musical palettes.  The score explores the role of distortion as a modern musical device.  The process of overdriving various pieces of analogue equipment into extremes to create tension was used to represent the game’s chaotic villain, Deathshead.  Additionally, to musically represent the rebellious plight of the heroes against their oppressors, Mick utilised vintage instruments, microphones and recording equipment to create music inspired by protest and freedom movement songs of the 1960s.

Mick Gordon proudly uses Mayones Guitars exclusively.
Mayones Guitars & Basses, handmade in Poland since 1982.
http://www.mayones.com/

AWARD HIGHLIGHTS

BAFTA Game Awards 2017: Best Music*
DOOM

DICE Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition
DOOM

SXSW Gaming Awards: Excellence in Musical Score
DOOM

The Game Awards: Best Music/Sound Design
DOOM

Game Developers Choice Awards 2017: Best Audio*
DOOM

G.A.N.G. Awards: Best Original Song, Vocal (Pop)*
Killer Instinct (I'm Back To Rise)

G.A.N.G. Awards: Best Original Song, Vocal (Pop)
Killer Instinct (Touch Me and I'll Break Your Face)

G.A.N.G. Awards: Best Interactive Score*
Killer Instinct

M.P.S.E. Golden Reel: Best Sound Editing
Need for Speed: The Run

M.P.S.E. Golden Reel: Audio of the Year*
Need for Speed: Shift

M.P.S.E. Golden Reel: Best Cinematic/Cutscene Audio*
Need for Speed: Shift

G.A.N.G. Awards: Best Audio, Other
A Day in Pompeii

G.D.A.A. Awards: Best Audio
Destroy All Humans 2

*Nomination

SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS

DOOM: Behind The Music
GDC 2017

DOOM: Behind The Music
PAXAus 2016

High Scorers: Star Composers of the Video Game World
WonderCon 2016

Killer Instinct: Behind The Music
PAXAus 2013

Next-Gen Audio in Killer Instinct
GDC 2014

The Perpetual Song
World Computer Congress

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