Alexander Brandon

Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including "Unreal", "Unreal Tournament", "Deus Ex", "Tyrian", "Jazz Jackrabbit 2" and the cancelled game "Jazz Jackrabbit 3D".

He worked in several MOD music groups over his composing years in the late 90's, including the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. During that time he also composed for several musicdisks such as Return to Stage 9.

He also released several albums. They are titled:
*AtmosphereS: Cultures (with Dan Gardopée)
*AtmosphereS: Dreams (with George "The Fat Man" Sanger)
*AtmosphereS: Moods (with Dan Gardopée)
*AtmosphereS: Pulses (with Dan Gardopée)
*AtmosphereS: Rhythms (with George Sanger)
* [http://www.alexanderbrandon.net/erasendplayer.html Era's End] (with Bryan Rudge)

The AtmosphereS albums mostly contain ambient music pieces, which is one of Brandon's major composing styles. His latest album showcases several other styles including pop and rock.

Brandon currently works as the Audio Director at Obsidian Entertainment

Past nicknames

During his tracker career, Alex has used several nicknames, as stated below:

* 1995: first tracks released under the name "Chromatic Dragon"
* end of 1995: name changed to "Siren"
* middle of 1996, during KFMF membership: name temporary changed to "Sandman"
* end of 1996: name changed back to "Siren"

Note that there were several (two or three) tracker musicians around the world, who have used the nickname "Sandman" independently of Alex. Here is an example: [http://modarchive.org/member.php?68812 Sandman's music page] (musician's real name is Bjorn K.).

List of contributions

* "Tyrian": Composer, level designer, writer
* "Jazz Jackrabbit": Additional music
* "Jazz Jackrabbit 2": Music
* "Jazz Jackrabbit 2" Add-on pack: Music
* "Extreme Pinball": Sound effects
* "Unreal": Music (with Dan Gardopee, Michiel Van Den Bos, and Andrew Sega)
* "": Music
* "Unreal Tournament": Music (with Dan Gardopee, Michiel Van Den Bos, and Andrew Sega)
* "Vigilante 8": Nintendo 64 Music (with Dan Gardopee)
* "": Nintendo 64 Music (with Dan Gardopee)
* "Dark Vengeance": Music
* "Pretzel Pete": Music (with Dan Gardopee)
* "Deus Ex": Music (with Michiel Van Den Bos)
* "": Audio Director, sound effects, music, VO
* "": VO, cinematic post sound effects and music
* "Activision Anthology" GBA: Title music
* "Unreal 2": Additional music (with Clint Bajakian, Jack Wall and Crispin Hands)
* "Battlestar Galactica" Xbox: In-game music
* "": Audio Director, VO, music, sound effects
* "": Audio Director, VO, additional music
* "Hour of Victory": Audio director, VO
* "TouchMaster" DS: Audio Director
* "Rampage": Total Destruction Gamecube, Wii: Audio Director
* "Happy Feet": Audio Director
* "The Ant Bully": Audio Director
* "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-AM": Audio Director
* "Marvel Ultimate Alliance" GBA: Music conversion
* "": Audio Director, VO, music, sound effects
* "": Audio Director

External links

* [http://www.alexanderbrandon.net Alexander Brandon Website]
* [http://www.vgmrush.com/artists-details.php?id=1 Comprehensive Profile at VGM Rush]
* [http://www.gamasutra.com/galleries/audio/alex_brandon/index.htm Developer Bio] at Gamasutra
* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId=947/ Developer Bio] at MobyGames
* [http://atorg.net.ru/music/Siren/ Musicography and tracks collection for 1995-1999] (Chromatic Dragon / Siren period)
* [http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~ankon/mod/list_srn.html Musicography for 1995-2002] (incomplete)
* [http://www.vgmrush.com/feature.php?id=1 "Interview with Alexander Brandon"] VGM Rush (Nov. 2007)
* [http://mothership.beyondunreal.com/interviews/alexbrandon.html "Interview with Alexander Brandon"] MotherShip Server: Kemmerer, Peter (Jun. 31, 1999)
* [http://www.deusex-machina.com/articles/alexbrandon.asp "Interview with Alex Brandon"] DeusEx-Machina.com: (Jan. 2001)
*musicbrainz artist|id=21848b19-5a20-4a58-b168-0b5f95524cdc|name=Alexander Brandon‎
* [http://www.ocremix.org/composer/id/177/alexander-brandon/ Composer profile] at OverClocked ReMix