Mike Morasky

Mike Morasky
Mike Morasky
Occupations Musician, digitial artist, technical director
Years active 1986—present

Mike Morasky is an American video game and film composer working at Valve Corporation. He is best known for composing the music for Portal, Team Fortress 2, the Left 4 Dead series and Portal 2.

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Biography

For Valve, Morasky composed the music for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders"), Portal 2 and provided additional music for the original Portal.[1]

He also worked as a visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix film trilogies.

Morasky was part of the now defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band "Steel Pole Bath Tub", which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.

On Valve's official website, his function his described as follows: "Morasky's life and career looks a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Guitar player in a full-time bar band in Montana as a teen, award winning experimental composer in Tokyo, audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley, underground art rocker touring the world, 3d animator and director for television, electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan, visual fx artist on the Lord of the Rings and Matrix Trilogies, AI animation instructor at an art college and currently he is applying some combination of all these things to games at Valve."[2]

In the MP3 tags of the official Portal 2 soundtrack, Morasky is credited as "Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory".

Video Games

Composer

Filmography

Visual Effects

Composer

  • Dopamine (2003) (guitar)
  • One Winter Story (2006)
  • I Die Daily: The Making of Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle' (2007)
  • Life in Flight (2008)

Discography

Soundtracks

  • "The Orange Box" (Valve, 2007)
  • "Portal 2: Songs To Test By" (Valve, 2011)

Steel Pole Bath Tub

Albums

  • "Butterfly Love" (Boner Records, 1989)
  • "Lurch" (Boner Records, 1990)
  • "Tulip" (Boner Records, 1990)
  • "The Miracle of Sound in Motion" (Boner Records, 1993)
  • "Your Choice Live Series" (Your Choice Records, 1993)
  • "Best of Steel Pole Bathtub" (Sento, 1993)
  • "Scars from Falling Down" (Slash/London, 1995)
  • "Unlistenable" (Zero to One, 2002)

Eps and Singles

  • "I Dreamed I Dream" - Split 7'/10" With Melvins - (Boner/Tupelo, 1989)
  • "Arizona Garbage Truck / Voodoo Chile" (Sympathy for the Recording Industry, 1990)
  • "European Son / Venus in Furs" (The Communion Label, 1991)
  • "We Walk" - Split 7" with Jawbreaker - (Staple Gun Records, 1991)
  • "Your Choice Live" - Limited 7" - (Your Choice Records, 1991)
  • "Bozeman" (Boner/Tupelo, 1992)
  • "Some Cocktail Suggestions EP" (Boner/Tupelo, 1994)
  • "Tragedy Ecstasy Doom and So On EP" (Genius Records, 1995)
  • "Auf Wiedersehen / Surrender" (Man's Ruin Records, 1995)
  • "Twist / Surrender" (Slash Records, 1995)
  • "Hey Bo Diddley Live in Tokyo" - Split 7" with Unwound - (Honey Bear Records, 1996)

Compilations

  • "Bee Sting" - "The Thing that Ate Floyd" - (Lookout! Records, 1988)
  • "We Walk" - "Surprise your Pig - A Tribute to R.E.M." - (Staple Gun Records, 1992)
  • "Chemical Warfare" - "Virus 100" - (Alternative Tentacles, 1992)
  • "Kung Fu Love" - "Milk for Pussy" - (Mad Queen Records, 1993)
  • "The Seventh Hour of the Seventh Day" - "The Smitten Love Song Compilation" - (Karate Brand Records, 1994)
  • "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" - "Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets Volume Ten" - (Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1994)
  • "The 500 Club" - "CMJ New Music August - Volume 24" - (College Music Journal, 1995)
  • "Twist" - "Introducing Vol. 2" - (Indigo, 1995)
  • "The Charm" - "Jabberjaw... Pure Sweet Hell" - (Mammoth, 1996)
  • "The Ghost" - "Twisted Willie" - (Justice Records, 1996)
  • "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" - "Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets Volumes 8-11" - (Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1997)
  • "I Dreamed I Dream" - "Confuse Yr Idols (A Tribute To Sonic Youth)" (Narnack Records, 2004)

Milk Cult

Albums

  • "Love God" (Boner Records / Tupelo Recording, 1993)
  • "Burn or Bury" (Priority Records, 1994)
  • "Bruce Lee Marvin Gaye" (ZK Records, 1994)
  • "Project M-13" (Zero to One Records, 2000)

Eps and Singles

  • "Mama Paranoia" - Split 7' With Dosed Bernie - (Box Dog, 1994)

Tumor Circus

Duh

Producer/Engineer

  • Jawbreaker "Chesterfield King EP" (1991)
  • Jawbreaker "Bivouac" (1991)
  • "Warlock Pinchers" "Circusized Peanuts" (1991)
  • "Blister" "Glitches" (1992) (Executive Producer)
  • "Tumor Circus" "Tumor Circus" (1991)

Guest Artist

  • "Dopamine Soundtrack" - guitar - (Zero to One Records, 2004)

References

  1. ^ IMDb profile
  2. ^ Company People on Valve's official website
  • [1] - LastFM Biography + Track Listing
  • [2] - Giant Bomb Profile
  • [3] - Jawbreaker production credits
  • [4] - Warlock Pinchers
  • [5] - Warlock Pinchers
  • [6] - Various production credits
  • [7] - Tumor Circus
  • [8] - Credits
  • [9] - Billy Anderson interview
  • [10] - Tumor Circus Credits
  • [11] - Steel Pole Bath Tub albums discography
  • [12] - Steel Pole Bath Tub singles/ep discography
  • [13] - Steel Pole Bath Tub compilation discography
  • [14] Milk Cult discography

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