![]() John Williams has always been my hero when it comes to movie scores and I also love James Horner, Alan Silvestri and some of Hans Zimmer’s stuff. Howard Drossin’s Baldur’s Gate II soundtrack also had a big impact on me, as well as Jeremy Soule’s work on Morrowind and Dungeon Siege. My passion for game music was sparked by Lennie Moore’s incredible Outcast score back in 1999, and to this day it remains one of my favorite game soundtracks. Since the early 2000’s I have gradually moved from hardware to software-only, doing all my work “in the box” with samples, virtual instruments and plugin effects. I got turned on to working with synths and MIDI in the mid nineties and did my first virtual orchestrations on a Pentium 100 with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite card and an ancient version of Cubase. Unlike most people who work in this genre I have no formal training and my roots are in rock rather than classical. I sometimes do vocals when I can’t find anyone more skilled or fitting to do the job, but I would hesitate to call myself a singer. But I also play keys, mandolin, bass, Irish flute and tin whistles. My main instrument is guitar - at least that’s what I started out on and I’m most proficient at on a technical level. I’m a Swedish musician and composer specializing in soundtracks for computer games and other media. If you haven’t guessed it already, my name is Mattias Westlund.
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