R.I.P. Richard Joseph, game music and sound composer

Richard Joseph, a man touted as one of the most influential gaming music composers of the 80’s and 90’s, passed away on March 4, 2007 after being diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year. He is known as one of the most important innovators in the industry, introducing true voice acting in his work on Mega Lo Mania, as well as the first use of interactive music in Bitmap Brothers’ Chaos Engine.

In his more then two decades in the industry he had worked with some notable musicians as Queen’s Brian May and John Foxx from Ultravox. His work on Theme Park World in 2000 helped Electronic Arts win a BAFTA award for Best Audio. At the time of his death, Joseph was living in France, where he ran SoundTropez, a recording studio specializing in state of the art audio equipment. Thank you Mr. Joseph, for helping create the soundtrack to our lives. — Andrew Dobrow

Richard Joseph [Wikipedia]