Age: 22
Position: Main Composer
Location: California, USA
Joined Team: July 2004

Skills:
Musically, Austin has taken years of piano lessons to learn what he has instinctively picked up as well as learning new things in composition. He has taken a college course to learn more about Digital Audio Workstations. He has learned to use state of the art composition programs such as Cubase and Gigastudio throughout the years for his creativity to be realized. At Digipen Institute, Austin had a lot of fun creating the music for the games: Fight Zone and Eskimo Kisses. Fight Zone was a first person shooter set in a futuristic setting and the music consisted of a mix of Techno and Rock. Eskimo Kisses was a Social Simulation game similar to “The Sims” which took place in the arctic. The music was made up of mostly electric textures and acoustic instruments. From doing these two games, Austin is able to have more experience as a game composer and understand how it all works.

Misc:
Austin is having a great time working with the TSL team and is looking forward to what lies next on the horizon for Phoenix Online Studios as well as how he can impact the video game industry in music.