I composed this piece to suit a game like sonic the hedgehog. Chemical zone from sonic 2 had some wicked music and I wanted to write something like that. I used various synths on logic and tried to get an 80's feel from the drums and bass. I added texture with strings and harp.

Chemical mixup

I composed this after playing a new final fantasy game. I wanted it to suit the opening of a game where you see images of all the characters and scenes from the epic battles ahead.

Epic Story

This is a work in progress that I composed a while ago that I wanted to suit an RPG game like Zelda. I thought it would go well with scenes where the you adventure around new towns or villages within the game.

New place

I composed this piece to the advert for gears of war 2 and I would post the video here if i could but I think I would be breaking copyright law. The advert originally had "mad world" put to it but I rather hoped they would have commissioned some more work by KEVIN RIEPL the composer for the gears of war games. This was the first piece I composed using logic and I am still tweaking the sounds now so it is a work in progress really. I will use it in my showreel when it is finished hopefully.

Gears of war advert

This is a piece from my final project at Coventry University. It was a piece inspired by a game called Zelda ocarina of time. I wanted the piece to accompany the water temple where the character has to solve ancient puzzles and find treasure within a huge underwater ruin.

The forgotten depths

I composed this piece after completing Zelda- twilight princess. This is another piece from my final project at University and was intended for the final boss music. There are three parts to the final boss in the game where Ganondorf morphs into various different horrible monsters. I used three different themes in the piece to represent these changes.

The Evil king

This is another piece of boss music that I composed at college in our final project band MADE4ARCADE. I have never found the drum sound I wanted for this piece but I am very pleased with the string sounds. This was composed in Nuendo 3.

In the eyes of the enemy

This is a piece I wrote in my second year at University. I was inspired by a game I had just completed called Farcry. It is a fantastic game with a brilliant story line and so much going on throughout. It is set in the jungle and are several different groups of characters in the game. I tried to use a different theme to represent each of the characters as well as capture some of the ambience of the jungle. In the middle there is a section where I tried my hand at horror music to represent the Trigens - mutant gorillas that hunt you down in the forest.

Far cry from home

This was a piece I wrote for a friends website which is a show case of all his wedding photographs. 

Day dreaming

This is a tune I have had in my head for years and never had a use for it until my friend asked me to write some music for his website. The site is a show case for all his wedding photographs and he asked if he could have a catchy piece with a good rhythm and mood.

Dean William Harris