This track is for an upcoming ambient album entitled Journey into the Cosmos. It is intended to celebrate the act of creation from the largest galaxy to the smallest organisms. 

Nebula Red

This is a dark ambient track from my new music collection "Journey in to the Darkness". The full cd is available at aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com

Shattered Tranquility

Versions of this theme were in Madden from 2004-2011. I am proud of this theme mostly because of what it represented while I was composing it. Three days before I had to begin writing this theme we discovered that our 4 year old daughter Sarah had cancer. I used the composing as a means to forge an anthem for the struggle that would lie ahead. Sarah is now 13 years old and cancer free. Although the struggle was difficult for us all the theme reminds of the victory on the other side of such a fight. I had never shared this before until the occasion of her 13th birthday when the theme was played live by the Berkeley College of Music Orchestra. What a present that was for Sarah and those in attendance. Hopefully understanding the inspiration will bring new meaning to the piece. 

Madden NFL Theme

This theme was written after I got a chance to actually drive a real Nascar. I wanted to capture that excitement and infuse it into the music! While it isn't one of my more prominent themes I still love how it felt when the dust had settled.

Nascar Theme

The goal with the Spyhunter Theme was to bring a fresh perspective to the Peter Gunn Theme. It needed to still maintain the same flair and charm of the original but had to have a lot more kick and modern relevancy.

Spyhunter Theme

I wanted Doom to feel far more sinister and dark than the original PC version. I made sure to set the stage for a far more suspenseful and unnerving experience than anything they had encountered in the original version of Doom. The result was one of the most memorable and popular themes in the world of video games.

Doom Theme

38 Studios may have failed as a business but the game we were making was spectacular. Here is the Kingdoms of Amalur Theme. The plan was to have this recorded by an orchestra...but obviously that will never happen now.

Kingdoms of Amalur Theme

This is one of the tracks I created for the playstation version of Doom. I intentionally used very low sample rates to add a gritty feeling to the instruments. The entire sample set and midi file fit into 180k of memory. Many years later the track still gives me the creeps.   

Doom Playstation Soundtrack - Lamentation (Level-Mt. Erebus)

Composer and Sound Designer Aubrey Hodges has been crafting audio for video games since 1991 and began his professional audio career in 1985. Long before the CD quality soundtracks and surround sound mixes available in today’s games, Hodges was entertaining fans in some cases with nothing more than a single bleep from the PC speaker. Hodges is credited as among the very first to use MIDI in a video game, the first to use sound effects in an online game and among the first to use General Midi in a video game. In 1991 Hodges accepted a position with Sierra-On-Line and worked on such classic series as Kings Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Conquest of the Longbow and Leisure Suit Larry. In search of a new challenge, Hodges accepted a position at Midway (San Diego) in 1993 to pursue console and arcade development where he served as Manager of Music Development for over a decade. During his tenure at Midway he had the pleasure of working on such popular series as Doom, Quake, NFL Blitz, Ready 2 Rumble, Defender, and many more. Hodges continued to challenge himself in accepting a position as Audio Director for EA Tiburon in April 2003. While at EA he managed the audio development on some of the most popular series of video games in the industry such as Madden NFL Football, NCAA Football, Nascar – Total Team Control, NFL Street, Arena Football, and Superman Returns. In August of 2008 Mr. Hodges accepted a position as Director Of Audio at 38 Studios and worked on Kingdoms of Amalur until the studio collapsed. Also in 2008, Hodges began commposing for iOS games starting with Fieldrunners for Subatomic Studios. The game was a hit and Aubrey attracted the attention of iPhone developer Backflip Studios. After developing many hit games with Backflip Studios such as Ragdoll Blaster 2, Army of Darkness Defense, and the massively popular Dragonvale, Aubrey became Director of Audio for them in May, 2012.

Mr. Hodges’s music and sound design is heard in video games all over the world with a combined total of over 200 games totaling over 95 million units shipped since he began his career.

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