Biography
Aliases: R.J., Richard Josepf
Home Country: Unknown
Richard Joseph is one of the pioneers of videogame music. Not only has he worked on nearly 100 videogames, but he also introduced many unique audio features into computer games.
Richard Joseph comes from a family of music and entertainment workers. His father, Teddy Joseph, was a production executive. Both his brothers, Eddy and Pat work in producing audio for movies. And his nephew Alex Joseph is a foley supervisor. With all this knowledge and submersion in the entertainment industry it follows that Richard would take up work in it as well.
In 1986 Joseph started as a freelance audio designer working on the Commodore 64 platform. As computer technology increased he moved onto PCs and Amigas. In the 1991 game "Mega lo Mania" Joseph introduced professional voice actors for the first time to videogames. Up until this point the only human voice was in short low-quality single phrases. Also, in early 1990's, Joseph collaborated with
several established pop musicians of the UK like Brian May, Betty Boo, Captain Sensible, and John Foxx. Joseph also implemented interactive music that would adjust itself as the game situations changed in the 1993 released game "The Chaos Engine".
In 1996 Joseph founded Audio Interactive, Ltd. and worked as the managing director. The company accepted contracts to compose music and sound programming for several popular game development companies. Audio Interactive would later hire the famous composer James Hannigan (with whom he would later share a Bafta award with in 2000) and sound artists Rebecca Parnell and Malin Arvidsson.
In 2001 Audio Interactive was dropped so that the employees could become part of Elixir Studios UK where they created a cutting edge sound department. Elixir Studios closed in 2005, but shortly after in
2006 Joseph founded a new audio studio in France called SoundTropez where he went continued to compose music and develop audio programs.
Unfortunately, on March 4th, 2007, Richard Joseph died from lung cancer. He was 53.
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