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Composer, Troels Folmann, Wins Prestigious BAFTA Award for Best Original Score
Company: Eidos
Date: 09 Oct 2006
London – October 6th, 2006 – Composer, Troels Folmann, received the BAFTA award for "Best Original Score" for his outstanding work on Tomb Raider Legend published by EIDOS/Crystal Dynamics at this year's British Academy Video Games Awards.
The score for Tomb Raider Legend marks a highlight in game music by combining a variety of new technologies and compositional methodologies ranging from epic symphonic scoring to electronic music. The four hour score for Tomb Raider Legend contested against other impressive scores such as: "The Elder Scrolls Oblivion", "Shadow of the Colossus", "The Movies" etc. The originality and energy of the Tomb Raider Legend score ultimately convinced the judges from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Crystal Dynamics Composer, Troels Folmann, comments:
"…The BAFTA award is an outstanding recognition of my works and marks the return the Tomb Raider franchise. I feel amazingly privileged for both the nomination and the award. I never imagined that my work would be appreciated at such a distinguished level of competences. The BAFTA award is highly motivating as I am currently working on unannounced soundtracks that will hopefully break new ground..."
"…The Tomb Raider Legend score was created on a 9 PC render farm, which allows me to recreate a full symphonic orchestra or anything else I envision. The score was created over eight months and the compositional styles ranged from epic symphonic to electronica, from Irish folk singers to Japanese Taiko drums. I explored all aspects of my compositional palette and the end-result is a highly diverse soundtrack oriented towards mass-consumer audiences…"
About the composer
Troels Folmann lives in San Francisco, CA/US. Mr. Folmann has a background as a commercial composer doing soundtracks for games, commercials and feature films.
Mr. Folmann originally started at Crystal Dynamics as a Ph.D. scholar in game music. The studies involved a variety of new compositional methodologies, which eventually became embedded into the Tomb Raider Legend score. One of the most unique methods is referred to as: "Micro-scoring". Micro-scoring fully allows the game music to adapt to player actions and the end-result is a score that fully complement the player experience.
The score for Tomb Raider Legend marks a highlight in game music by combining a variety of new technologies and compositional methodologies ranging from epic symphonic scoring to electronic music. The four hour score for Tomb Raider Legend contested against other impressive scores such as: "The Elder Scrolls Oblivion", "Shadow of the Colossus", "The Movies" etc. The originality and energy of the Tomb Raider Legend score ultimately convinced the judges from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Crystal Dynamics Composer, Troels Folmann, comments:
"…The BAFTA award is an outstanding recognition of my works and marks the return the Tomb Raider franchise. I feel amazingly privileged for both the nomination and the award. I never imagined that my work would be appreciated at such a distinguished level of competences. The BAFTA award is highly motivating as I am currently working on unannounced soundtracks that will hopefully break new ground..."
"…The Tomb Raider Legend score was created on a 9 PC render farm, which allows me to recreate a full symphonic orchestra or anything else I envision. The score was created over eight months and the compositional styles ranged from epic symphonic to electronica, from Irish folk singers to Japanese Taiko drums. I explored all aspects of my compositional palette and the end-result is a highly diverse soundtrack oriented towards mass-consumer audiences…"
About the composer
Troels Folmann lives in San Francisco, CA/US. Mr. Folmann has a background as a commercial composer doing soundtracks for games, commercials and feature films.
Mr. Folmann originally started at Crystal Dynamics as a Ph.D. scholar in game music. The studies involved a variety of new compositional methodologies, which eventually became embedded into the Tomb Raider Legend score. One of the most unique methods is referred to as: "Micro-scoring". Micro-scoring fully allows the game music to adapt to player actions and the end-result is a score that fully complement the player experience.
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