Joris De Man
Joris Maarten de Man (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch composer and sound designer, known for his work on the video games Killzone and Horizon Zero Dawn.
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- Name
- Joris de Man
- Born
- 30 June 1972
- Birthplace
- The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Joris Maarten de Man (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch composer and sound designer, known for his work on the video games Killzone and Horizon Zero Dawn.
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• Name — Joris de Man • Born — 30 June 1972 • Birthplace — The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands • Occupation — Composer • Website — http: www.jorisdeman.com/
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De Man's first work involving video games was chip music written for Atari computers under the moniker "Scavenger." He was also employed as a freelance composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands from 1991 to 1992. He spent three years working in London for the Bitmap Brothers on sound design and music composition. In 1999, he returned to the Netherlands and found work with Guerrilla Games. He has also written music for various film and television projects. He also led the composition of the soundtrack for Horizon Zero Dawn, along with The Flight and Niels van der Leest. De Man has composed a new soundtrack for the Vainglory new 5v5 game mode. De Man composed the score alongside The Flight, Niels van der Leest and Oleksa Lozowchuk in the video game Horizon Forbidden West.
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Joris De Man born at The Hague.
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Joris de Man won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score for Killzone 2. In 2018, he won the award a second time for his work on Horizon Zero Dawn.
Joris de Man giving a talk about the interactive music in Killzone at Game Music Connect 2013.
Miguel Mendez · Joris de Man at Game Music Connect 2013
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- 1.Squareenixmusic.com. Game Music :: Interview with Joris de Man (September 2010). 22 February 2011.
- 2.Playstationlifestyle.net. Joris De Man Behind Killzone 3 Soundtrack. 24 August 2010.
- 3.Scavenger / Synergy - Demozoo. demozoo.org.
- 4.https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jorisdeman
- 5.Dolby.com. Dolby - Interview with Killzone Sound Designer, Joris de Man.
- 6.Joris de Man Interview: Killzone and Beyond. 31 August 2010.
- 7.Quillfeldt, Thomas. Melody Maker: Horizon Zero Dawn Co-Composer on Odd Samples, Scoring Tricks and Teamwork. Laced Records. 21 September 2017.
- 8.The music of Horizon Forbidden West: meet the composers. PlayStation.Blog. 3 June 2021.
- 9.Screenedmusic.com. Joris de Man wins Ivor Novello award. 9 June 2010.
- 10.The Ivors. The Ivors 2018. 31 May 2018.
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