Composer &
Sound Designer
Marios Aristopoulos is a composer and sound designer for new media based in London. Selected composition credits include: Beasts of London - an interactive exhibition for the Museum of London, Flame of Hope Lighting Ceremony for the 2019 Special Olympics in Athens, APOTHEON - a Canadian award-winning video game for PC and consoles (Top 10 PlayStation soundtracks of the decade - Push square), AENIGMA - a Greek 3D animation film (best film - International Animation Festival of Hiroshima, Japan), and The Living Book - a UK 360-VR immersive experience about the future of climate change. In 2016, he was a resident artist in the prestigious Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York as well as a fellow for the Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah.
Marios holds a Ph.D. in interactive composition from City, University of London and leads the game audio courses in Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has developed and taught multiple undergraduate and MA music production courses for colleges such as The Institute of Audio Research in New York, GSMD, Point Blank, and BIMM London. His first educational book, The Game Music Toolbox, will be published by Routledge in September 2022.
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The Game Music Toolbox: Composition Techniques and Production Tools from 20 Iconic Game Soundtracks
Paperback – 24 May 2023 - Available on Amazon & all major book retailers now!
by Marios Aristopoulos (Author)
The Game Music Toolbox provides readers with the tools, models, and techniques to create and expand a compositional toolbox, through a collection of 20 iconic case studies taken from different eras of game music. Discover many of the composition and production techniques behind popular music themes from games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter II, Diablo, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, and many others.
The Game Music Toolbox features:
Exclusive interviews from industry experts
Transcriptions and harmonic analyses
101 music theory introductions for beginners
Career development ideas and strategies
Copyright and business fundamentals
An introduction to audio implementation for composers
Practical takeaway tasks to equip readers with techniques for their own game music
The Game Music Toolbox is crucial reading for game music composers and audio professionals of all backgrounds, as well as undergraduates looking to forge a career in the video game industry.
