Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a German
game musician, producer and professional sound designer of
Armenian
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origin, who has produced the soundtrack for ''
Quake II
''Quake II'' is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. It is the second installment of the ''Quake'' series, but not a direct sequel to '' Quake''. The game's storyline is continued in its ...
'',
''
Tomorrow Never Dies
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'' and ''
Hellgate: London'', as well as approximately half of the soundtrack for ''
Quake III Arena
''Quake III Arena'' is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software. The third installment of the ''Quake'' series, ''Arena'' differs from previous games by excluding a story-based single-player mode and focusing prima ...
'' and all the weapon
sound effects for ''
Unreal Tournament
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'' and, since the build 222 patch, also its predecessor,
Unreal
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. Dikiciyan has also produced independent music albums.
Dikiciyan's style is primarily a very driving and forceful form of
aggro-industrial, with an emphasis on repeated musical phrases (though this is less pronounced in his non-soundtrack work). Currently Sascha collaborates with
Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco is an American video game and film composer. His works include the musical scores for ''Overwatch'', ''Mass Effect'', '' Borderlands'', ''God of War'', '' StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm'' and ''Bloodborne''.
Biography
He has be ...
who is responsible for orchestral moods in their music.
Dikiciyan is also known under the name Toksin, producing dance remixes for the likes of
BT and
Celldweller
Celldweller is an American electronic rock project by multi-musician Klayton. Celldweller songs have been featured in many films, movie trailers, television shows and video games.
Career Precursors: Circle of Dust and Angeldust (1992–1999)
Th ...
and many others.
Dikiciyan's work came to prominence when he sent a copy of his first CD ''Methods of Destruction'', an alternate ''
Quake'' soundtrack, to
id Software
id Software LLC () is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer, programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer T ...
in 1996. As a result,
John Romero
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asked him personally to score the soundtrack for ''
Quake II
''Quake II'' is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. It is the second installment of the ''Quake'' series, but not a direct sequel to '' Quake''. The game's storyline is continued in its ...
''.
Dikiciyan has also contributed
sound patches to
Moog Music's award-winning
Animoog
Animoog is a music synth mobile app designed for iPad, iPhone and BlackBerry Z10. Animoog is powered by Moog Music's Anisotropic Synthesis Engine.
Description
There are three versions of Animoog. Animoog for the iPad is simply named 'Animoog ...
app.
Works
References
External links
*
*
Sonic Mayhem websiteArtist profileat
OverClocked ReMix
OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by vari ...
GameSlice Interview: The Music of Quake<- Broken link
Interview at GamesArt.de
1970 births
Living people
German industrial musicians
Video game composers
Musicians from Stuttgart
German people of Armenian descent
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