OWEN SPENCE
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Owen is a 24-year-old resident in Atlanta, Georgia, and has spent far longer than anyone cares to admit studying how music works in video games. Owen creates original music and covers, mostly of video game music. Owen is known in the community of the video game Destiny for his covers and contributions to archive and preserve the music in the games, as well as for community-spanning projects such as Geomantic and his love for and fan works of Destiny’s Music of the Spheres album.
Original projects include albums such as The Beastial Universe, This Christmas Night, and Bound By Luck and Fate. Owen also composes music for a number of occasions, such as holidays and friends’ birthdays, as well as miscellaneous pieces. Owen is also a hobbyist graphic designer and made many of the designs and images seen in Oakhost’s projects.
Owen works with Oakhost to archive aspects of video games such as music, sound effects, and art, as well as sourcing where samples came from. Owen has thoroughly documented video game music by Halo composers Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, and has worked to make their lesser-known soundtracks more accessible.
Owen also works with Odyssey Sound Team to recreate music from games such as Myth and Septerra Core from scratch using the original hardware samplers the composers used. Owen is also recreating the soundtrack to Stubbs The Zombie in his spare time.
Owen recently released an original music collection called Bound by Luck and Fate, as well was two multi-year collaborative projects: The Discarded Instrument and Geomantic: The Collection. Owen is currently working on Hope for the Future for Piano and multiple exciting, unannounced projects.