Alexander Brandon

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Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the cancelled game Jazz Jackrabbit 3D.

He worked in several MOD music groups over his composing years in the late 90's, including the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. During that time he also composed for several musicdisks such as Return to Stage 9.

He also released several CD albums. They are titled:

AtmosphereS: Cultures (with Dan Gardopée)
AtmosphereS: Dreams (with George "The Fat Man" Sanger)
AtmosphereS: Moods (with Dan Gardopée)
AtmosphereS: Pulses (with Dan Gardopée)
AtmosphereS: Rhythms (with George Sanger)

As the names suggest, the albums mostly contain ambient music pieces, which is one of Brandon's major composing styles.

Brandon currently works as the Audio Director at Obsidian Entertainment

[edit] Past nicknames

During his tracker career, Alex has used several nicknames, as stated below:

1995: first tracks released under the name "Chromatic Dragon"
end of 1995: name changed to "Siren"
middle of 1996, during KFMF membership: name temporary changed to "Sandman"
end of 1996: name changed back to "Siren"

Note that there were several (two or three) tracker musicians around the world, who have used the nickname "Sandman" independently of Alex. Here is an example: Sandman's music page (musician's real name is Bjorn K.).

[edit] List of contributions

Tyrian: Composer, level designer, writer
Jazz Jackrabbit: Additional music
Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Music
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Add-on pack: Music
Extreme Pinball: Sound effects
Unreal: Music (with Dan Gardopee, Michiel Van Den Bos, and Andrew Sega)
Unreal Tournament: Music (with Dan Gardopee, Michiel Van Den Bos, and Andrew Sega)
Dark Vengeance: Music
Pretzel Pete: Music (with Dan Gardopee)
Deus Ex: Music (with Michiel Van Den Bos)
Deus Ex: Invisible War: Audio Director, sound effects, music, VO
Thief: Deadly Shadows: VO, cinematic post sound effects and music
Activision Anthology GBA: Title music
Unreal 2: Additional music (with Clint Bajakian, Jack Wall and Crispin Hands) <uncredited>
Battlestar Galactica Xbox: In-game music
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows: Audio Director, VO, music, sound effects
Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run: Audio Director, VO, additional music
Hour of Victory: Audio director, VO
TouchMaster DS: Audio Director
Rampage: Total Destruction Gamecube, Wii: Audio Director
Happy Feet: Audio Director
The Ant Bully: Audio Director
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-AM: Audio Director
Marvel Ultimate Alliance GBA: Music conversion
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer: Audio Director, VO, music, sound effects