Mick Gordon

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Mick Gordon in 2017.

Michael John "Mick" Gordon (born 9 July 1985) is an Australian composer and sound designer, composing music primarily for video games. He has been active in the industry since 2002. He is most notable in the Doom universe for composing the soundtracks for Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal. Other video games Gordon has composed for include LawBreakers, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Prey, and the first and second seasons of the 2013 fighting game Killer Instinct.

Career

Gordon first began work as a sound designer with Pandemic Studios, where he contributed additional sound design for Destroy All Humans! 2. His involvement with Bethesda began with the action-adventure first-person shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order, developed by MachineGames. He returned to the Wolfenstein series in 2015 to compose the score for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.

In 2016, Gordon composed the score and soundtrack for the science fiction first-person shooter, Doom, a sequel to the 1993 game developed by id Software. His score for Doom won a number of awards including a DICE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, SXSW Gaming Award for Excellence in Musical Score, The Game Awards' Best Music/Sound Design, and was nominated for a BAFTA Games Award for Best Music.[1]

Musical style and inspiration

According to Mick Gordon's official website, Gordon "utilises a broad range of modern musical sound design and traditional composition techniques in order to be unconstrained by any singular genre," and that it is "inspired by the connection between the audience and the experience."[1]

Gordon's work "considers the role of music as a translation of the world in which it exists rather than a simple accompaniment."[1]

Discography

Year Title
2007 Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
2008 El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
2009 Need for Speed: Shift
2009 Marvel Super Hero Squad
2010 The Last Airbender
2010 Need for Speed: World
2010 Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet
2011 Shift 2: Unleashed
2011 Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat
2011 Need for Speed: The Run
2013 ShootMania Storm
2013–2014 Killer Instinct
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order
2015 Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
2016 Doom
2017 Prey
2017 LawBreakers
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
2020 Doom Eternal
TBA Routine

External links

Sources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gordon, Mick. "About." mick-gordon.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.

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