David R. Punshon
aka: Dave Punshon, David Punshon
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Born in St. Albans, England.
Helped form the 'Babe Ruth' rock/jazz band in 1972 which was signed to EMI's Harvest label for 25 years, making international award winning albums.
Studied jazz keyboards and composition at Leeds, orchestration in London and conducting with Laurence Leonard.
In the early 1990s, studied Mozart's Musical Dice Game and saw the potential of interactive music within computer games. Later in the 1990s helped Microsoft to develop 'Direct Music' which is loosely based upon Mozart's game. Went on to use 'Direct Music' in 5 Lego games.
For the past 12 years David has been helping to expand the frontiers of interactive music through writing orchestral scores for computer games with fellow composer Richard Wells.
David has written a new Flute and Harp Concerto for Flautist Karin Leitner.
Credited on 28 games
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| 3 Skulls of the Toltecs (2019 on Windows) | Music |
| Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (2004 on Windows) | Steamin' Down Town |
| World War II: Frontline Command (2003 on Windows) | Music |
| Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (2003 on GameCube) | Original Score |
| LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (2001 on Game Boy Advance) | Original Music |
| Gangsters 2 (2001 on Windows) | Music Composed by |
| LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (2001 on Game Boy Color) | Audio |
| Walking with Beasts: Operation Salvage (2001 on Windows) | Original Music Composed by |
| LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (2001 on Windows) | Original Music composed, arranged and produced by |
| LEGOLAND (2000 on Windows) | Direct Music and Animation scores composed and produced by |
| F/A-18E Super Hornet (2000 on Windows) | Music composition and production |
| LEGO Creator: Knights' Kingdom (2000 on Windows) | Music |
| Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas (1999 on Windows) | Music / Sound Programming |
| Gangsters: Organized Crime (1998 on Windows) | Music composed |
| M.I.A.: Missing In Action (1998 on Windows) | CD Music |
| LEGO Chess (1998 on Windows) | FMV & In-Game Music |
| Z and Z Expansion Kit (1998 on Windows) | Music |
| The Feeble Files (1997 on Windows) | Music |
| X-COM: Apocalypse (1997 on DOS) | Music |
| Z (1996 on DOS) | Music |
[ full credits ]
Dave Punshon at Air Studios 2003
Frequent Collaborators
- 21 games with Richard Wells
- 8 games with Tim Mawson
- 6 games with Graeme Boxall
- 6 games with Alex Bush
- 5 games with Jay Benedict
- 5 games with Mark Livingstone
- 5 games with Nic Ashford
- 5 games with Leah Kalboussi
- 5 games with Rob Smith
- 4 games with Laurence Scotford
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