Mark Knight (sound designer)

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Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight (born January 8, 1973, in Brighton, England) is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician and video game composer/sound designer. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktros for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, and also made a number of original compositions for many formats from the Super Nintendo through to the PlayStation and PC.

After leaving the Amiga demo scene, he worked for the computer game developer Mindscape Group, 3D Realms, Bullfrog Productions, Electronic Arts, Climax Group, Visual Science and is now back working as a senior sound designer with Electronic Arts. His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander (video game) amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D and has sound design credits in games such as Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World (which won a Bafta for best sound in a video game).

Also a semi pro violinist, Mark has performed live electric violin music under the name madfiddler with the folk punk band Tricks Upon Travellers, Blue Horses, 4-4-2, Pepe Deluxé, The Divine Comedy, K-Passa, C64 Audio.com, Laura Kenny, Silver Dogs and Massive Attack amongst others. He is currently working on a secret new project with famous Commodore 64 composer, Ben Daglish, and playing with an electric ceilidh band called Moondance, and the Commodore 64 rock covers band SID80s.

Mark is currently based near Stratford in England, working for the games company Codemasters.

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