Dark, Textural, Performed
Original scores built from live players, electronics and heavily manipulated recordings. Atmospheric and folk-inflected, in the Witcher and Santaolalla lineage.
Game Scoring · Audio · London
Music for
Music for
games.
A screen composer and score mixer moving into games. I write dark, textural, performer-led scores and mix them myself, from live players and electronics to a finished, implemented Atmos master, so the music arrives shippable rather than handed off.
SteamBBCNetflixDisney+National GeographicITV
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Reel & interactive
A short games reel, plus an interactive demo showing how a cue is built in layers, exploration, tension and combat, and how it moves between them. Landing here shortly.
Games reel2 to 3 min
Reel coming soon
Interactive layersAdaptive demo
Demo coming soon
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In production
Devil's BidComposer · Arch Rat Studios · Steam
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What I bring
Scoring
Interactive
Adaptive Systems
Music delivered as stems, layers and loops with the logic to combine them, implemented in Wwise or FMOD so it responds to the player, not a locked timeline.
Mixing
Finished & Shippable
I mix my own work to final, stereo through Dolby Atmos, from a 9.2.4 room. No dub stage downstream, so what I deliver is what ships.
Support
Additional Music & Mix
Additional music, plus score-mix and audio support for other game composers and studios who want the technical load taken off.
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The room
I mix in a dedicated 9.2.4 immersive room built for music. For games that matters twice over: the score is written and finished in the same space, and it is delivered implementation-ready, in whatever format the build needs, from stereo to full Atmos.
Coming up through Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, I learned to write music that holds its own inside a busy soundtrack. In games there is no dub stage to fix it later, which suits the way I already work.
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Screen credits
The scoring and mixing track record the games work builds on.
The Salt PathScore Mixer
Trigger PointScore Mixer
Arctic Ascent with Alex HonnoldScore Mixer
Robbie WilliamsScore Mixer
The LakeScore Mixer
Nine BodiesScore Mixer & Additional Music
Spinal Tap: The Final FinaleSupervising Sound Editor & Music Pre-Mixer
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Let's talk games.
Projects & roles
Heather Hudyma
Scoring briefs, studio contracts and audio roles. The fastest way to start a conversation.
heather@coldswim.studio
Olly direct
Olly Shelton
For anything hands-on about the music, the tools or the delivery.
ollysheltonmusic@gmail.com