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Paul Thomson (composer)

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Paul Thomson
Birth namePaul Ross Thomson
Born (1972-02-18) 18 February 1972 (age 52)
Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK
OriginCotswolds, U.K.
OccupationComposer
Years active1994–present
LabelsEMI

Paul Ross Thomson (born 18 February 1972 in Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English composer for film, television, and video games and music technologist who lives in the Cotswolds. He won the 2012 Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award for Music Original Title for his theme music for the BBC TV show The Fades.[1]

Spitfire Audio

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He founded the British music technology company Spitfire Audio with fellow composer Christian Henson in 2007. The company has collaborated with Hans Zimmer,[2] Olafur Arnalds,[3] Eric Whitacre[4] and BT.[5]

Television

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Thomson has written for a variety of films and television shows.[6]

Recent work also includes the multiple award winning movie Missed Connections,[7] the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun,[8] the BAFTA Best Drama winning and BANFF Best Youth Fiction award winning The Fades (2011),[9] Discovery: Project Earth (2008)[10] and The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008).[11]

Games

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Thomson was a lead composer on LittleBigPlanet 2 created by Media Molecule creating all of the cinematics for the game, and several adaptive music tracks.[12][13] He also worked with the company on the first game's downloadable content, scoring the Pirates of the Caribbean premium level pack[14] and the "Marvel" premium level pack.[15] He has also worked on LittleBigPlanet Karting, LittleBigPlanet Vita, and most recently, LittleBigPlanet 3.

References

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  1. ^ "RTS Craft & Design Awards 2011/2012 winners (RTS)". RTS. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013.
  2. ^ Ben Rogerson (1 March 2018). "Spitfire Audio promises "groundbreaking sampling" in Hans Zimmer Strings". MusicRadar. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Spitfire Audio teams up with Ólafur Arnalds on a new virtual instrument". MusicTech. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Spitfire Audio announce Eric Whitacre Contrast". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Polaris BT from Spitfire Audio". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Paul Thomson composer (IMDB)". IMDB.
  7. ^ "Missed Connections Movie".
  8. ^ "Half Of A Yellow Sun full credits (IMDB)". IMDB.
  9. ^ "The Fades wins BANFF". BANFF. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013.
  10. ^ "Ascap list of works". Ascap.
  11. ^ "Genius of Darwin credits". FilmAffinity.
  12. ^ "LBP2 Audio". Gamespot. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Music of LittleBigPlanet 2". MediaMolecule. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  14. ^ "Music of LittleBigPlanet". MediaMolecule. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
  15. ^ "Music of LittleBigPlanet". MediaMolecule. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
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