Mike Morasky is an American video game and film composer working at Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

. He is best known for composing the music for Portal, Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...

, the Left 4 Dead series

Left 4 Dead (series)

The Left 4 Dead franchise is based on a series of cooperative first-person shooter, survival horror video games developed by the Valve Corporation...

 and Portal 2

Portal 2

Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...

.

Biography

For Valve

Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

, Morasky composed the music for Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...

, Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...

, Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to...

 (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders

Midnight Riders

Midnight Riders can refer to:* "Midnight Rider", a song by The Allman Brothers Band* Midnight Riders , the independent supporters association for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer...

"), Portal 2

Portal 2

Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...

 and provided additional music for the original Portal.

He also worked as a visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...

 and The Matrix

The Matrix (franchise)

The Matrix is a science fiction action franchise created by Andy and Larry Wachowski and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The series began with the 1999 film The Matrix and later spawned two sequels; The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2003, thus forming a trilogy...

 film trilogies.

Morasky was part of the now defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band "Steel Pole Bath Tub

Steel Pole Bath Tub

Steel Pole Bath Tub was a hardcore punk/noise rock band, formed in 1986 in Bozeman, Montana by Mike Morasky and Dale Flattum .- Band history :...

", which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.

On Valve's official website, his function his described as follows: "Morasky's life and career looks a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Guitar player in a full-time bar band in Montana as a teen, 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 and currently he is applying some combination of all these things to games at Valve."

In the MP3 tags of the official Portal 2 soundtrack, Morasky is credited as "Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory".

Composer

• Day of Defeat: Source
  Day of Defeat: Source
  Day of Defeat: Source is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. Set in World War II, the game is an updated version of Day of Defeat, moving from the GoldSrc engine used by its predecessor to the Source engine...
  
   (2005)
• Portal (2007) (with Kelly Bailey)
• Team Fortress 2
  Team Fortress 2
  Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...
  
   (2007)
• Left 4 Dead
  Left 4 Dead
  Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...
  
   (2008)
• Left 4 Dead 2
  Left 4 Dead 2
  Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to...
  
   (2009)
• Portal 2
  Portal 2
  Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...
  
   (2011)

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
  The Matrix Reloaded
  The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15,...
  
   (2003) (lead technical director)
• The Matrix Revolutions
  The Matrix Revolutions
  The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction film and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in sixty countries on November 5,...
  
   (2003) (sentinel/swarm lead)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...
  
   (2003) (senior massive technical director)
• Catwoman
  Catwoman (film)
  Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film and quasi-spinoff of the Batman film series directed by Pitof and released by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures on July 23, 2004....
  
   (2004) (CG supervisor)
• Drawing Restraint 9
  Drawing Restraint 9
  Drawing Restraint 9 is a project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature length 35mm film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 16 numbered components and related materials. Some episodes are videos, others sculptural...
  
   (2005) (lead technical director)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by...
  
   (2006) (digital artist)

Composer

• Dopamine
  Dopamine (film)
  -Plot:Rand is a computer animator, who has created an artificial intelligence creature designed to interact with children and teach them responsibility. When his prototype is forced into practice at a school, Rand encounters Sarah, a teacher he was inexplicably drawn to, at his favorite bar one...
  
   (2003) (guitar)
• One Winter Story (2006)
• I Die Daily: The Making of Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle (2007)
• Life in Flight (2008)

Albums

• "Butterfly Love" (Boner Records, 1989)
• "Lurch" (Boner Records, 1990)
• "Tulip" (Boner Records, 1990)
• "The Miracle of Sound in Motion" (Boner Records, 1993)
• "Your Choice Live Series" (Your Choice Records, 1993)
• "Best of Steel Pole Bathtub" (Sento, 1993)
• "Scars from Falling Down" (Slash/London, 1995)
• "Unlistenable" (Zero to One, 2002)

Eps and Singles

• "I Dreamed I Dream" - Split 7'/10" With Melvins - (Boner/Tupelo, 1989)
• "Arizona Garbage Truck / Voodoo Chile" (Sympathy for the Recording Industry, 1990)
• "European Son / Venus in Furs" (The Communion Label, 1991)
• "We Walk" - Split 7" with Jawbreaker - (Staple Gun Records, 1991)
• "Your Choice Live" - Limited 7" - (Your Choice Records, 1991)
• "Bozeman" (Boner/Tupelo, 1992)
• "Some Cocktail Suggestions EP" (Boner/Tupelo, 1994)
• "Tragedy Ecstasy Doom and So On EP" (Genius Records, 1995)
• "Auf Wiedersehen / Surrender" (Man's Ruin Records, 1995)
• "Twist / Surrender" (Slash Records, 1995)
• "Hey Bo Diddley Live in Tokyo" - Split 7" with Unwound - (Honey Bear Records, 1996)

Compilations

• "Bee Sting" - "The Thing that Ate Floyd" - (Lookout! Records, 1988)
• "We Walk" - "Surprise your Pig - A Tribute to R.E.M." - (Staple Gun Records, 1992)
• "Chemical Warfare" - "Virus 100" - (Alternative Tentacles, 1992)
• "Kung Fu Love" - "Milk for Pussy" - (Mad Queen Records, 1993)
• "The Seventh Hour of the Seventh Day" - "The Smitten Love Song Compilation" - (Karate Brand Records, 1994)
• "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" - "Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets Volume Ten" - (Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1994)
• "The 500 Club" - "CMJ New Music August - Volume 24" - (College Music Journal, 1995)
• "Twist" - "Introducing Vol. 2" - (Indigo, 1995)
• "The Charm" - "Jabberjaw... Pure Sweet Hell" - (Mammoth, 1996)
• "The Ghost" - "Twisted Willie" - (Justice Records, 1996)
• "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" - "Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets Volumes 8-11" - (Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1997)
• "I Dreamed I Dream" - "Confuse Yr Idols (A Tribute To Sonic Youth)" (Narnack Records, 2004)

Albums

• "Love God" (Boner Records / Tupelo Recording, 1993)
• "Burn or Bury" (Priority Records, 1994)
• "Bruce Lee Marvin Gaye" (ZK Records, 1994)
• "Project M-13" (Zero to One Records, 2000)

Producer/Engineer

• Jawbreaker
  Jawbreaker (band)
  Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996 and considered one of the most influential acts of the early-1990s emo movement...
  
   "Chesterfield King EP" (1991)
• Jawbreaker
  Jawbreaker (band)
  Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996 and considered one of the most influential acts of the early-1990s emo movement...
  
   "Bivouac
  Bivouac (album)
  Bivouac is the second album by American punk band Jawbreaker, released on Tupelo/Communion Records in 1992.- LP tracks :# "Shield Your Eyes" - 3:10# "Big" - 5:06# "Sleep" - 4:06# "Donatello" - 3:03# "P.S...
  
  " (1991)
• "Warlock Pinchers" "Circusized Peanuts" (1991)
• "Blister" "Glitches" (1992) (Executive Producer)
• "Tumor Circus" "Tumor Circus" (1991)