Kasson Crooker

Developer BIO

Kasson began his career in the music industry after attending Berklee College of Music (music production and engineering major) at Lexicon where he worked in QA on products like the PCM90, MPX1, and 960, also making an abundance of presets for those devices. From there he moved to Papyrus Design as the sole audio person working on the PC racing title Grand Prix Legends.

Then a short retirement followed as he left Papyrus to record an album for Capitol Records with his then band Splashdown. Capitol undeservedly shelved the album, and by then Kasson had begun work in audio production at Harmonix Music Systems. His first title there was the 2000 game FreQuency which he did lead audio production on, and composed the songs under the band name's Freezepop, Symbion Project, DJ HMX, and Komputer Kontroller. He then worked on the second title Amplitude doing audio production and more compostion. Both those titles were published by SCEA.

He then became the Audio Director at Harmonix and went to work on 5 Karaoke Revolution titles for publisher Konami, and doing extensive sound design and audio systems implementation for the 2004 release of Eyetoy: AntiGrav (published by SCEA), the premier title exploiting the amazing potential of the eyetoy peripheral.

Following this was the extreme success of the Guitar Hero 1 & 2 series which Harmonix created and developed (plus the 80's edition). These games won many awards including Best Music Game 2005 (IGN) and Best of Show/Editors Choice at E3 2005, as well as winning many G.A.N.G. awards for audio. Kasson then transitioned out of audio and became a producer at Harmonix where he project lead the team creating the interactive music game Phase for the iPod, which was released in fall of 2007.

Kasson other main hobbies are his bands Freezepop and Symbion Project, and looking at mobiles.

Websites

• Official site of Freezepop -- Kasson is also in this blippy synthpop band

Games Credited

Guitar Hero: On Tour (2008), Activision Publishing, Inc., RedOctane, Inc.
Rock Band (2008), MTV Games
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (2007), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Phase (2007), MTV Networks
CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution Country (2006), Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Guitar Hero II (2006), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Guitar Hero (2005), RedOctane, Inc.
Karaoke Revolution Party (2005), Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
EyeToy: AntiGrav (2004), SCEA
Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (2004), Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Karaoke Revolution Volume 3 (2004), Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Amplitude (2003), Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
Karaoke Revolution (2003), Konami of America, Inc.
Frequency (2001), SCEA
Grand Prix Legends (1998), Sierra On-Line, Inc.