Career
Gordon began his musical career as a jazz / blues guitarist in his teens. He first began to work as a sound designer with Pandemic Studios, where he contributed additional sound design for '' Destroy All Humans! 2''. In 2013, he scored the first season of the fighting video game, '' Killer Instinct'', a reboot of the original 1994 title. The following year, Gordon scored the second season of ''Killer Instinct'' and 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,'' a prequel to '' Wolfenstein: The New Order.'' In 2016, Gordon completed the score for the science fiction first-person shooter, '' Doom'', the sequel toid Software controversy
Following the release of ''Doom Eternal''s OST in April 2020, several online music bloggers and fans noted the disparity in quality between the ''Doom'' (2016) OST and the one released with ''Eternal''. On 19 April, Gordon confirmed on Twitter that much of it was not his work. Subsequently, Marty Stratton, an executive producer at id Software, posted an open letter on Reddit that alleged Gordon did not provide the source material for the additional tracks on the OST and that he required a contractual extension to get the OST completed in time. Following this, public outcry against Gordon reached a level where he received explicit death threats and graphic messages of intent to harm him and his family. Gordon's message accounts, servers and phones were allegedly inundated with abuse, seriously impacting his mental health. On 9 November 2022, Gordon published an article on Medium explaining his side of the story in the form of a defensive rebuttal of the accusations in Stratton's post. It made several statements that the open letter from Stratton contained lies. He called out claims made by Stratton accusing him of not providing the original source material for the soundtrack, and that Bethesda had to grant him an extension to get the OST done, when in reality, he had not even been contracted to create the OST at the time of the delay. This in turn led to his reputation in the industry being harmed. Gordon provided a variety of forms of evidence including photographs of emails to verify his claims. Gordon further stated that when his lawyers requested that the open letter be removed in response to this and other evidence, he was instead offered "a six-figure payout" in exchange for a lifetime gag order without the removal of the original letter. He also alleged that he was not compensated for more than half of the music that ended up being used in the final release of the game.Musical style and inspiration
According to Gordon's official website, he "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." Gordon's work "considers the role of music as a translation of the world in which it exists rather than a simple accompaniment."Discography
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Mick Australian composers Australian male composers Living people Video game composers 1985 births