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My Favourite Game Jesper Kyd
Edge
|October 2018
The award-winning composer on Commodore 64, Commando and creating moods.
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Jesper Kyd has been scoring video games since the 1990s, emerging from the demoscene to become one of the industry’s leading composers. Born in Denmark but based in Los Angeles, he’s returning home in August with Copenhagen’s Gaming In Symphony concerts, where the Danish National Symphony Orchestra will perform music Kyd has created for Hitman II: Silent Assassin, Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and more.
Which came first for you: music, or games?
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Edge.
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