Stephen Baysted

Stephen Baysted (born January 1969 in London, England), is a British composer of film, Television and video game music.

Project Cars 2 Scoring Session, Air-Lyndhurst Studios

Film, TV and Video Game Composer

Stephen Baysted works professionally as a media composer in the games, film and television industries. As Composer and Audio Director, he is listed amongst the key personnel for Slightly Mad Studios Ltd. an International games development studio and has composed music scores and designed sound for a string of award-winning computer games including the UK no.1 game Project CARS and Project CARS 2;[1] the hybrid score for Electronic Arts' game: Shift 2: Unleashed, Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed: Shift, Atari’s Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends and Robert Kirkman’s: The Walking Dead: Assault. Recent film scores include Phil Grabsky's I, Claude Monet, Renoir: Revered and Reviled, and The Impressionists: and the man who made them; Tim Pope's Brandy and Pep; and the psychological drama Strange Factories. For television Baysted has composed the music to NOVA's Killer Floods, Killer Volcanoes and Killer Hurricanes; the series King Tut's Treasures for Blink Films; the series for BBC Tom Kerridge: Lose Weight for Good, three series of Blink Films' documentary series Ancient Mysteries commissioned by Channel 5, Smithsonian and SBS; Blink Film's "Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts" for Channel 4 and PBS. Baysted has also composed the music for cinema, TV and radio adverts, including high-profile campaigns for Budweiser, McDonald's, Samsung and Pizza Hut and he writes for many leading music libraries, including Audio Network.[2]

Baysted’s work has been nominated for two Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, three Jerry Goldsmith Awards and two Game Audio Network Guild Awards, two Golden Joystick Awards and in February 2016 won Best Original Score for a short film for his music in Submerged from the WildSound festival.

Baysted is represented and published by Accorder Music Publishing Ltd. Baysted was recently interviewed by Computer Music (magazine) about his work in the games industry.[3] and Designing Sound about his work on Project CARS.[4]

Baysted is Professor of Film, TV and Games Composition at the University of Chichester. He is also Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games.

Credits Include:

Education

Baysted gained BA (Hons.) and MMus degrees from the University of Southampton,[23] is listed in their successful alumni, and was a visiting research student in the Departments of Music and Philosophy at the Université de Rouen in France. Baysted was awarded a PhD in 2002 from Dartington College of Arts for a thesis entitled: From le cri de la nature to Pygmalion: a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera.[24] Before joining the University of Chichester in 2003, he was Head of Opera Studies at Rose Bruford College in Kent and worked with many of the leading opera companies and opera practitioners in the UK.[23] Baysted was recently appointed Professor of Film, TV and Games Composition at the University of Chichester.

References
  1. "UK Video Game Charts: Project CARS fends off Wolfenstein to hold on to No.1 - VideoGamer.com".
  2. "Stephen Baysted Music: Listen, Buy & Download Tracks by Stephen Baysted". Audio Network.
  3. Computer Music. "Computer Music 184, November 2012 – SOUNDTRACKS – ON SALE NOW". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  4. "Vehicle Engine design – Project CARS, Forza Motorsport 5 and REV". designingsound.org.
  5. "I, Claude Monet". 21 February 2017 – via www.imdb.com.
  6. "Secrets of the Dead" – via www.imdb.com.
  7. "Project CARS". bandainamcogames.eu. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
  8. "Project CARS 2 Behind The Scenes". 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
  9. "Ancient Mysteries" – via www.imdb.com.
  10. "Renoir: Revered and Reviled". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  11. "The Impressionists and The Man Who Made Them".
  12. "World of Speed". worldofspeed.com. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  13. "The Walking Dead: Assault". Thewalkingdeadassault.com. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  14. "404 Error - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
  15. "Strange Factories". Info.strangefactories.com. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  16. "Matisse Live". 3 June 2014 – via www.imdb.com.
  17. "Brandy and Pep". 1 July 2015 – via www.imdb.com.
  18. "My Name is Georgina".
  19. "Psycho House". Psychohousemovie.com. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  20. "Eager Beaver | Chillingo - The Premier Games Publisher". Chillingo. 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  21. "SKiD Racer". Gamagio. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  22. "WMD Portal". WMD Portal. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20130304201846/http://www.chi.ac.uk/staff/dr-stephen-baysted. Archived from the original on 2013-03-04. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-27. Retrieved 2011-09-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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