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Mark Morgan
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soundtrack, ambient, dark ambient, industrial, fallout
There are at least two Mark Morgans: One is a member of Sightings.
Composer Mark Morgan was born in Los Angeles, CA. to a young couple who were artistic, ambitious and a bit unconventional. Mark’s father, Mel Morgan, was a young architect from Iowa who came to California to pursue his career. Mel started his own architectural firm, specializing in modern, cutting edge design. He was also a jazz lover. Mark’s mother, Betty, was a classically trained pianist and sculptor. Consequently, Mark was surrounded by these diverse influences from birth.
With his mother’s encouragement, Mark began taking piano lessons at age seven. He immediately took to the instrument. The repertoire was standard classical piano, but Mark started to improvise even then.
His family moved south of Los Angeles when Mark was ten, to a beachside community in Orange County. Mark’s classical piano studies continued, but his interest in musical styles began to expand when he discovered a local music shop that catered to young artists. For the first time, Mark was exposed to the groups like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Zombies, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. Mark’s interest in rock ‘n roll was piqued by the way these groups sometimes took such simple music to new levels, integrating vocal harmonies and musical instrumentation in fresh and intriguing ways.
As a result of this new-found interest, Mark radically expanded his classical piano training to include rock ‘n roll guitar and drums. Fortunately, he maintained his training on the keyboard.
Composer Mark Morgan was born in Los Angeles, CA. to a young couple who were artistic, ambitious and a bit unconventional. Mark’s father, Mel Morgan, was a young architect from Iowa who came to California to pursue his career. Mel started his own architectural firm, specializing in modern, cutting edge design. He was also a jazz lover. Mark’s mother, Betty, was a classically trained pianist and sculptor. Consequently, Mark was surrounded by these diverse influences from birth.
With his mother’s encouragement, Mark began taking piano lessons at age seven. He immediately took to the instrument. The repertoire was standard classical piano, but Mark started to improvise even then.
His family moved south of Los Angeles when Mark was ten, to a beachside community in Orange County. Mark’s classical piano studies continued, but his interest in musical styles began to expand when he discovered a local music shop that catered to young artists. For the first time, Mark was exposed to the groups like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Zombies, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. Mark’s interest in rock ‘n roll was piqued by the way these groups sometimes took such simple music to new levels, integrating vocal harmonies and musical instrumentation in fresh and intriguing ways.
As a result of this new-found interest, Mark radically expanded his classical piano training to include rock ‘n roll guitar and drums. Fortunately, he maintained his training on the keyboard.
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SpaceCadet1 wrote:
No probs Ogorek ;) Gonna have to try out the game also at some point. I also found a download for Mark's tracks on the Giants: Citizen Kabuto soundtrack. They're not that spectacular, but if someone wants to hear them I can post instructions on how to download it (a bit trickier, requires registration to a forum and a rapidshare download).
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Ogorek wrote:
SpaceCadet1, this soundtrack is awesome!!! thanks a looot!
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SpaceCadet1 wrote:
Additionally: a direct link to Morgan's work on Zork: Nemesis, a very Falloutish soundscape with some great soundscapes: http://roms.zophar.net/mp3/zork-nemesis-original-soundtrack Just click on a separate track, and right-click on the Save to computer link and save target as - don't think there's an option for mass download, but the music is worth the effort.
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SpaceCadet1 wrote:
Good stuff in updating the artist pic and bio. Hopefully the talks about officially released Fallout soundtracks will materialise one day. And if someone missed the link to the Mark Morgan-Aphex Twin comparsion vid, here it is again: http://youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8
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rift117 wrote:
any Fallout fan here should buy Planescape on Amazon immediately--you'll like it just as much!
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nickJeffWarner wrote:
Paul1987: ohh I already listened to it... what a nostalgy! luv that second song, reminds me Redding and the third song isn´t bad too <33
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Paul1987 wrote:
Okay, composer for Fallout 3 is Inon Zur.Probably better choice than Jeremy Soule, Zur composed Fallout Tactics already, so he knows the setting at least a bit.And Crysis ost was quite good too.There are 3 songs on Fallout 3 website, check them out.
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nickJeffWarner wrote:
trancing: well that´s truth, I really want to have an ambient and dark ambient (Mark Morgan, Jesper Kyd, Charlie Clouser...) and not soundtrack on my musical taste ... well I would quarrel if this is ambient or dark ambient... I mean Fallout 1/2 soundtracks
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maggit wrote:
They'll probably take Jeremy Soule. :/
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Paul1987 wrote:
Damn, I want Mark to produce soundtrack for Fallout 3... Too bad its probably not gonna happen :(.
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zhao-zhuxi wrote:
Haha, you bet it would! Try, you won't regret what you'll experience!
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Ollemann wrote:
The Fallout soundtrack would be pretty fucking scare when tripping on acid, I guess. It gives me the creeps even when I'm sober.
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KryptoN wrote:
trancing: User tags have no rules or standards. Everyone is free to use them in any way they want to, period.
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ExCx wrote:
Try with LSD.. A stunning experience..
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trancing wrote:
well, I reckon it would be most proper to describe actual genre of certain music on these pages rather than defining whether it's a game/movie soundtrack, etc, which might especially be useful if you want to compose an OMI list with genres, which would only include actual genres, not the unnecessary random user comments like soundtrack, seen live, the music I like, etc.
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Neznalek wrote:
But user tags aren't only about genre.
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trancing wrote:
guys, soundtrack is not really the name of the genre. The genre is ambient.
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Dizdoc wrote:
Великий композитор. Аминь.
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McYaballow wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8
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Phoenix849 wrote:
There you can download three themes from Van Buren. I think they are not bad... Not bad at all! http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Van+Buren The link is there
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