Jeremy Soule

Jeremy Soule is an award-winning American composer prominent in game music scores. Soule's soundtracks are often critically acclaimed as being among the best in the computer and video games industry and as rivaling the quality of many

Jeremy Soule is an award-winning American composer prominent in game music scores. Soule's soundtracks are often critically acclaimed as being among the best in the computer and video games industry and as rivaling the quality of many orchestral film soundtracks. A large percentage of Soule's music is done electronically and emulates real orchestral music so well that it is frequently indistinguishable from the real thing.

While still in high school, Soule, as a large fan of video and computer games, felt that the music found in most games "lacked drama and intensity" . After completing high school, he created an experimental demo showcasing what he felt video game scores should sound like using traditional cinema style techniques. Soule sent the tape to LucasArts and Squaresoft and was promptly given the task to score Secret of Evermore after Square reviewed the demo. The finished game features an untraditional score incorporating ambient background sounds (like wind blowing and ocean waves) into the music and utilising a more mellow orchestral sound, in stark contrast to the epic scores found in most role playing games.