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Doom – Robert Price (Piano Solo, Video Games sheet music)
Doom (easy piano) – Robert Price (EASY Piano Solo, Video Games sheet music)
Robert Prince (Bobby Prince)
Robert Prince, also known as Bobby Prince, is a composer and sound designer. He has worked as an independent contractor for several gaming companies, most notably id Software and Apogee/3D Realms.
He has created music and sound effects for Commander Keen installments 4 through 6, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Rise of the Triad, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem II, Duke Nukem 3D, Abuse, Demonstar, and other games.
Furthermore, he has also composed music for commercials and independent films. In 2006, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by his fellow game composers. Though occasionally describing himself as retired, Prince has done recent work, including compositions for Brad Carney’s 2014 Wrack.
Robert Prince is a lawyer who passed the bar in 1980. He was a 1LT platoon leader in Vietnam during 1969-70.
Robert Prince’s Doom score
All of Doom’s music was composed by Robert Prince. There are 23 distinct tracks present across the original 3 episodes, with Thy Flesh Consumed not introducing any new tracks.
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Prince created the score for both Doom and Doom II. Prince was never an in-house composer for the projects. Him being isolated from the office allowed him to explore the score without input from the development team, and caused him to find much inspiration from the Doom Bible, the design document written by Tom Hall.
“What helped the most with the sound of Doom was the Doom Bible that Tom Hall compiled,” says Prince. “Much of what was in it never appeared in the game, but it set a mood for starting on the project. Within a few months of receiving that document, I had roughed out a lot of music and most of what turned out to be final sound effects.”
For inspiration, Romero handed Prince tapes with what he calls “Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath”, to serve as rough guides for “what we are looking for”. Says Prince, “The id Software development team originally wanted me to do nothing but metal songs for DOOM.” Consequently, the score reflects the then-current metal and hard rock genre, creating an instantly recognizable sonic landscape.
Prince originally envisioned Doom as having an ambient, environmentally sensitive soundtrack, rather than a traditional musical score.
He initially created the metal-styled tunes to demonstrate that this style of music would not mesh well with the game, but they eventually ended up in the final product. Assigning the music to the levels was done by Romero.
‘DOOM’: Behind the Music, by Mick Gordon, on GDC Vault.
A detailed look into the compositional process, production techniques and creative philosophies behind the hell-raising soundtrack to the 4th installment of the seminal first-person shooter franchise, ‘DOOM’. Composer Mick Gordon (‘Killer Instinct’, ‘Wolfenstein: The New Order’, ‘Need for Speed’) will give an insight into how to create a high-energy modern first-person-shooter soundtrack that unashamedly sits front-and-center, appeals to fans and stays true to the franchise.
Covering musical sound design, synthesis techniques, compositional approach, interactive music, mixing, working remotely and idea generation, Mick will discuss the fine points behind creating an aggressive soundtrack that both engages the player and supports gameplay.
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Mick Gordon
Michael John ‘Mick’ Gordon (born 9 July 1985) is an Australian composer and sound designer who primarily composes music for video games. Gordon has composed for several first-person shooter games, including LawBreakers, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Prey, the 2016 reboot of Doom, Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and the first and second seasons of the 2013 fighting game Killer Instinct.
Gordon first began working as a sound designer with Pandemic Studios, where he contributed additional sound design for Destroy All Humans! 2. In 2013, he composed the first season of the fighting video game Killer Instinct, a reboot of the original 1994 title.
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The following year, Gordon composed the second season of Killer Instinct and the first-person action-adventure game Wolfenstein: The New Order (Developed by MachineGames). He returned to the Wolfenstein series in 2015 to score Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, a prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order.
In 2016, Gordon scored the sci-fi first-person shooter Doom, a reboot of the 1993 game, developed by id Software. His score for Doom won several awards, including a DICE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, SXSW Gaming Award for Excellence in Music Score, Best Music/Sound Design Game Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Video Game Award for Best Music.
In 2017, Gordon composed the score for the horror first-person shooter Prey, developed by Arkane Studios. He also worked alongside Martin Stig Andersen to return to the Wolfenstein series again, earning the award-winning Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, developed by MachineGames.
On June 23, 2020, British rock group Bring Me the Horizon announced that they would be working with Gordon on their next release. Vocalist Oliver Sykes talks about how he loved the Doom Eternal soundtrack during quarantine. Being heavily inspired by Gordon’s work, the band decided to approach him and offer him a collaboration. The resulting work, titled ‘Parasite Eve’, was released on June 25 along with an accompanying music video.
According to Mick Gordon’s official website, Gordon ‘uses a wide range of modern musical sound design and traditional composition techniques so as not to be limited by any particular genre’, and is ‘inspired by the connection between audience and experience. ‘.
Gordon’s work ‘considers the role of music as a translation of the world in which it exists, rather than simply as an accompaniment’.