Joris de Man

Joris de Man
Joris de Man at Game Music Connect in 2013
Born
Joris Maarten de Man

(1972-06-30) 30 June 1972 (age 52)
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
OccupationComposer
Websitehttp://www.jorisdeman.com/

Joris Maarten de Man, known as Joris de Man, (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch composer and sound designer, well known for his work on the video games Killzone and Horizon Zero Dawn.[1][2]

His first work involving video games was chip music written for Atari computers under the moniker "Scavenger."[3] He was also employed as a freelance composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands from 1991-92.[4] 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.[5]

He has also written music for various film and television projects.[6] He also led the composition of the soundtrack for Horizon Zero Dawn, along with The Flight and Niels van der Leest.[7] 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.[8]

  1. ^ "Game Music :: Interview with Joris de Man (September 2010)". Squareenixmusic.com. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Joris De Man Behind Killzone 3 Soundtrack". Playstationlifestyle.net. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Scavenger / Synergy - Demozoo". demozoo.org.
  4. ^ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jorisdeman [self-published source]
  5. ^ "Dolby - Interview with Killzone Sound Designer, Joris de Man". Dolby.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Joris de Man Interview: Killzone and Beyond". 31 August 2010.
  7. ^ Quillfeldt, Thomas (21 September 2017). "Melody Maker: Horizon Zero Dawn Co-Composer on Odd Samples, Scoring Tricks and Teamwork". Laced Records. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  8. ^ "The music of Horizon Forbidden West: meet the composers". PlayStation.Blog. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.