David Logan (composer)
David Logan (composer)[edit]
David A. Logan | |
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| Born | August 27, 1969 (age 50) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Video Game Music, Orchestral, Electronic |
| Years active | 1994-present |
David Aaron Logan (born August 27, 1969) is a Canadian composer for film, television and video games. He has been nominated for a Hollywood in Music Media Award and has composed the music for popular games such as X-Men - Mutant Academy, Pac-Man World 2, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty and the re-released arcade classic Asteroids.
His music has been extensively used in television, both in advertisements like Nike's 2004 Summer Olympics campaign featuring Marion Jones and television shows like Sex and the City, Face Off and Access Hollywood. He was also a feature composer for Disney's Ready or Not.
In 2016 Logan moved to Rome, Italy, to work on a series of feature films including his original soundtrack for La Guerra dei Cafoni and the film ROSA.
Personal Life[edit]
Logan was born in Toronto, Canada and started being exposed to music at a very young age. His father would listen to classical music while his mother listened to Motown and The Beatles. At the age of 11 he began making his first connections to music listening to bands such as Blondie, The English Beat, ecc. After 4 years his father bought him a set of drums and at the age of 17 he went to the Oakwood Collegiate Institute in Toronto where he became an orchestral classical percussionist. His passion for composing started while studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy during his final year of high school, and in 1990 Logan went to the Berklee College of Music where he started as a performance major before transferring to the Film Scoring department and graduating with honors after four years.
Career[edit]
Logan began his career working on a writing team for the Disney show Ready or Not in 1994, and at the age of 27 he moved to Los Angeles, California where he started writing music for the Video Game industry. His work with Activision led to working on titles such as Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle, Asteroids and X-men: Mutant Academy. In 2002 he composed the music for the Namco game Pac-Man World 2 which went on to sell more than one million copies. Logan also composed an orchestral arrangement of the original Pac-Man music for the release of the game.
In the gaming arena he is a licensed Authorized Developer for Sony and Nintendo, and a licensed content creator for X-Box. In addition to this he is also the first composer to compose streaming Interactive MIDI music for Sony Playstation. In 2011 Logan worked on the IOS release Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty for which he received a Hollywood Music in Media Award nomination.
In 2016 he moved to Rome, Italy to work on a series of feature films including his original soundtrack for La Guerra dei Cafoni. Recently his soundtrack for the film ROSA premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2019.
Discography[edit]
Gaming and Interactive Scoring
• Valerian: City of Alpha (iOS), Spil Games
• Jeopardy (Playstation 4), Frima Studio
• Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (iOS), Disney/Marvel. (soundtrack available on iTunes) • Tap Tap Revenge [featured artist] (iOS), Tapulous/Disney
• Heroes Over Europe (Playstation 3/XBOX 360), Ubisoft/Red Mile
• Tamagotchi: Around the World (iOS), Namco/Bandai
• Pac-Man World 2 (Playstation 2/Xbox/Gamecube), Namco
• Jungle Run (iOS), HitGrab
• Watercraft (iOS), HitGrab
• X-men: Mutant Academy (Playstation), Activision
• Asteroids (Playstation), Activision
• Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle (Playstation), Activision
• Legion: Legend of Exalibur (Playstation 2), 7 Studios/Midway
• NHL Hockey 2K2 (Dreamcast), Treyarch/Sega
• NHL Hockey 2K3 (Playstation), Treyarch/Activision
• Major League Baseball 2001 (Playstation), Sony/989 Studios
• Major League Baseball 2002 (Playstation), Sony/989 Studios.
• Twisted Metal 4 (Playstation), Sony/989 Studios
• Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm (Dreamcast), Treyarch
Featured Music in Television
• Sex & the City (HBO)
• Access Hollywood (NBC)
• Faceoff (Fox Sports Network)
• Major League Baseball on Fox (Fox Network)
• Fox Sports Americas EPL Show (Fox Sports Network) • NFL on Fox (Fox Sports Network)
• Best Kept Secrets of the FBI (TLC) • A Dating Story (TLC)
• New Attitudes (Lifetime)
• Healthweek (PBS)
• WCW (TNT)
Film and Television Scoring
• ROSA Minimum Fax Media/Rai Cenima
• La Guerra Dei Cafoni Minimum Fax Media/Rai Cenima
• Code Name Simon American Film Institute
• Circles Harambe Pictures
• Ready or Not Disney Channel. (currently in Syndication in over 40 countries) • Tiger Woods Story MTV Films/Paramount Pictures (arranger)
• Roses are Blue Extra Sensory Productions
• Rand&Whitney Norton Productions
• Rhapsody on Ice B.C. Pictures
External Links[edit]
David Logan on IMDB
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