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Mike Morasky
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Years active
1986—present
Name
Mike Morasky
Role
Composer
Music group
Steel Pole Bath Tub
Occupation(s)
Composer, musician, animator, VFX artist, director, technical director
Albums
Tumor Circus, The Miracle of Sound in Motion
Genres
Orchestra, Electronica, Musique concrete, Ambient music, Dark ambient, Noise rock, Hardcore punk
Similar People
Kelly Bailey, Ellen McLain, Jello Biafra
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Mike Morasky is an American composer, animator/visual effects artist, director and programmer. He is best known for his work at Valve Corporation composing the scores for Portal, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, and the Left 4 Dead series. He is also known for his visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix trilogies as well as founding the underground art bands Steel Pole Bath Tub, Milk Cult and DUH.
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Biography
For Valve, Morasky composed the music for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders"), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Portal 2 and half of the music for the original Portal.
He also worked as a senior visual effects artist and technical director on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix film trilogies.
Morasky was part of the now-defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub, which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.
On Valve's official website, his function is described as follows: "Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve."
Composer
Day of Defeat: Source (2005)
Portal (2007) (with Kelly Bailey)
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
Left 4 Dead (2008)
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
Portal 2 (2011)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012)
Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (lead massive crowd technical director)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (senior massive technical director)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (lead technical director)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (sentinel/swarm lead)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (senior massive technical director)
