Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren (previously Sandman, previously Chromatic Dragon) in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the cancelled game Jazz Jackrabbit 3D. He has recently given full rights of the music from Tyrian to Wesley Boynton of Oakton, VA. The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes itself on producing demos, non-interactive audio-visual presentations, which are run real-time on a computer. ... ModPlug Tracker in Fast Tracker 2 colors mode Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Straylight Productions was a producer of video game music, founded in 1994, which has since disbanded with lead musician Alexander Brandon taking on a new post as sound director at Midway Games. ... Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, is a computer game development company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ... Unreal is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and published by GT Interactive (now owned by Atari) on May 22, 1998. ... Unreal Tournament, UT, (sometimes referred to as UT99, UT Classic, UT1, or UT:GOTY to differentiate from Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Unreal Tournament 3) is a popular first-person shooter video game. ... This article is about an interactive computer and video game. ... Tyrian 2000 main menu Tyrian is a video game which was developed by Eclipse Productions (later World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic Megagames. ... Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a platform game produced by Epic MegaGames, now known as Epic Games. ... Jazz Jackrabbit 3 title screen Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D) was to be the third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit. ...

He worked in several MOD music groups over his composing years in the late 90's, including the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. During that time he also composed for several musicdisks such as Return to Stage 9. For other uses, see Mod. ... The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (a. ...

He also released several CD albums. They are titled:

• AtmosphereS: Cultures (with Dan Gardopée)
• AtmosphereS: Dreams (with George "The Fat Man" Sanger)
• AtmosphereS: Pulses (with Dan Gardopée)
• AtmosphereS: Rhythms (with George Sanger)

As the names suggest, the albums mostly contain ambient music pieces, which is one of Brandon's major composing styles. Dan Gardopée aka Dan Grandpre (aka Basehead in the tracker community) is an electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions. ... George The Fat Man Sanger is a musician who has composed music for over 200 different computer and video games, beginning in 1983. ...

Brandon currently works as Sound Director at Midway Games' branch office in California. Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ...

External links

• Developer Bio at Gamasutra
• Developer Bio at MobyGames
• Musicography and tracks collection for 1995-1999 (Chromatic Dragon / Siren period)
• Musicography for 1995-2002 (incomplete)
• "Interview with Alexander Brandon" MotherShip Server: Kemmerer, Peter (Jun. 31, 1999)
• "Interview with Alex Brandon" DeusEx-Machina.com: (Jan. 2001)
• Alexander Brandon‎ at MusicBrainz