Joris Maarten de Man, known as Joris de Man, (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch
composer and
sound designer, well known for his work on the video games ''
Killzone
''Killzone'' is a series of first-person shooter video games for Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) video game consoles. The main series and the PlayStation Portable (PSP) installment were developed by Guerrilla Games, a subsidiary of SIE, a ...
'' and ''
Horizon Zero Dawn''.
His first work involving video games was chip music written for Atari computers under the moniker "Scavenger." He was also employed as a freelance composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands from 1991-92. He spent three years working in London for the Bitmap Brothers on sound design and music composition. In 1999, he returned to the Netherlands and found work with
Guerrilla Games.
He has also written music for various film and television projects. He also led the composition of the soundtrack for ''Horizon Zero Dawn'', along with
The Flight and Niels van der Leest. De Man has composed a new soundtrack for the ''
Vainglory
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'' new 5v5 game mode. De Man composed the score alongside The Flight, Niels van der Leest and
Oleksa Lozowchuk in the video game ''
Horizon Forbidden West
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''.
Awards
Joris de Man won the
Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score for ''
Killzone 2''. In 2018, he won the award a second time for his work on ''
Horizon Zero Dawn''.
References
External links
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The Flight
1972 births
Living people
Dutch composers
Video game composers
Killzone
Musicians from The Hague
Demosceners
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