Mark Miller
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Mark Miller is an American musician and former video game composer. Mark has written music for over 60 games. In 1992, he founded Neuromantic Productions, a video game audio production company that worked closely with Sega's US division. Members of the group created the popular software used for the production of Sega's Genesis music, GEMS. In 1994, Mark started working for Sega of America full time as their Audio Director. A year later, he started working for Crystal Dynamics as both the director of audio and video. In 1997, he founded The Interactive Audio Special Interest Group. He also worked at Harmonix Music Systems up until 1999, where he was a Senior Producer. After leaving the game industry around 2000, he founded iMix and was the CFO and COO for David Associates. He was also the founder of the Urban H2O Concert Series in Yonkers, New York.
Mark was also in the band Spuyten Duyvil from 2009 to 2018. He also founded Hex & Company, which was Manhattan's largest board game cafe. In 2021, Miller founded The Porch NYC, a restaurant and music venue which he still operates to this day.
Music Composition
GEN
Miller and some of the other composers from Neuromantic created GEMS (Genesis Editor for Music and Sound). Prior to GEMS, he, along with Jonathan Miller, Chris Grigh and Burt Sloane coded the SEGA Music Development System, which they created at Artech Studios.
NES
Though the Mark Miller did not work on the NES, his music was used in the game Krusty's Fun House, and arranged for the NES by David Whittaker, who entered the music in assembly into his sound driver. The same applies for the Game Gear, Master System, Amiga, and SNES versions of the game.
SNES
Miller primarily used Sculptured Software's Berlioz sound driver. The majority of the games he composed used the first variant by David Ross and Bill Williams, while Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day uses the second variant by Ross, Steve Aguirre and Ricky Lyond, and Disney's The Jungle Book uses third variant by Aguirre.
Earthworm Jim and Ballz 3D use Bitmasters's SLICK/Audio by David O'Riva.
DOS
Thought Mark Miller did not work on the DOS games, he was contracted with Donald Griffin to help composers with adapting MIDI to the PC.
Gameography
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