Mark Snow

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Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman on 26 August 1946 in New York City) is a prolific composer for film and television.

Snow graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City. He was a co-founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble.

One of his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi show The X-Files (he has admitted that the lyrics are "The X-Files is a show / with music by Mark Snow"), but Snow also wrote the music for Chris Carter's Millennium, and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons' worth. The X-Files typically used more instrumental music score than most hour-long dramas.

He also composes the scoring for Smallville. He has even composed music for the video game Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror.

He has been nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won 18 ASCAP awards.

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According to the "Behind the Truth" segment on the Season 1 DVD, Mark Snow created the echo effect on his famous X-Files theme song by accident. Snow said that he had gone through several revisions, but Chris Carter felt that something was not quite right. Carter walked out of the room and Snow put his hand and forearm on his keyboard in frustration. Snow said, "this sound was in the keyboard. And that was it."