Mark Knight

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Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight (born January 8, 1973, in Brighton, England) is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician and video game composer/sound designer. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktros for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, and also made a number of original compositions for many formats from the Super Nintendo through to the PlayStation and PC.

After leaving the Amiga demo scene, he worked for the computer game developer Mindscape Group, 3D Realms, Bullfrog Productions, Electronic Arts, Climax Group, Visual Science and is now back working as a senior sound designer with Electronic Arts. His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander (computer game) amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D and has sound design credits in games such as Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World (which won a Bafta for best sound in a video game).

Also a semi pro violinist, Mark has performed live electric violin music under the name madfiddler with the folk punk band Tricks Upon Travellers, Blue Horses, 4-4-2, Pepe Deluxé, The Divine Comedy, K-Passa, C64 Audio.com, Laura Kenny and Massive Attack amongst others. He is currently working on a secret new project with famous Commodore 64 composer, Ben Daglish, and playing with Chorley based band Silver Dogs.

Most recently he can also be found performing with several famous Commodore 64 composers, including Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish under the guise SID80s.

Mark is now based near Warrington in England.

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