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Chris Jensen is an American composer and musician who performs contract work for Valve, for which he composed the Half-Life: Opposing Force music (reused for Half-Life: Blue Shift), the Counter-Strike: Condition Zero music,[2] as well as promotional music for other Valve-produced games such as the Gunman Chronicles trailer,[3] or the first Half-Life 2 trailer shown at E3 2003.
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[edit] Biography
Jensen was born in the Silicon Valley and currently lives in Seattle. He has composed several albums of ambient and melodic style, "with a sci-fi twist": Avatar (2006), Prelude to the Solitude (2007), IF? (2009), and Cheri Angelique (2009). They can all be listened to for free on his official website, or purchased via PayPal, on Amazon, iTunes or CD Baby.[1][3]
Jensen spent his childhood in a padded soundproof room with only an analog tape recorder and an acoustic piano, while listening to Beethoven, Walter (later Wendy) Carlos and the earlier works of Jean Michel Jarre. He is also a graphic artist and photographer who creates fantastical photo-realistic worlds. He often uses the nickname "Emo Fitzmorris" or simply "Emo".[1]
With Doug Lombardi, Jensen also created the band / duet RB Productions, an experimental project delving in electronic / ambient music, in the San Francisco Bay Area around 1985. In this duet, Jensen is in charge of lead keyboards, acoustic piano, sound effects, sampling and rhythm devices. Lombardi is in charge of lead vocals, plays guitar, bass, keyboards, and also programs the drum machine.[4]
Jensen links to Combine OverWiki on his official website: to his own article, and the Opposing Force one.[5]
[edit] Complete gameography
[edit] Video game
- Marathon Infinity (1996) (special thanks)
- Trivial Pursuit: Millennium Edition (1999) (prototype programmer)
- Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999 (soundtrack)
- Gunman Chronicles (2000) (trailer music)
- Half-Life: Blue Shift (reused Opposing Force (2001) soundtrack)
- Batman: Vengeance (2001) (advertising and packaging for the US version of the Game Cube version)
- Half-Life 2 E3 2003 trailer (2003) (music)
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004) (soundtrack)
[edit] Personal musical projects
- GooneyBird (2006) (as part of RB Productions)
- Avatar (2006) (as Emo)
- Prelude to the Solitude (2007) (as Emo)
- IF? (2009) (as Emo)
- Cheri Angelique (2009) (as Emo)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The World Of If... Chris Jensen (official website)
Chris Jensen on MySpace
Chris Jensen on Last.fm
Chris Jensen on Flickr
Chris Jensen on MobyGames
- RB Productions (official website)
