Stéphane Picq is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 composer of computer game music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, primarily for ERE Informatique/Exxos

ERE Informatique

ERE Informatique was one of the first French video game companies, founded in 1981 by Philippe Ulrich and Emmanuel Viau. The company hired freelance game programmers that received royalties for their creations. Initially, the company published titles for the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and Oric home...

 and then Cryo Interactive

Cryo Interactive

Cryo Interactive Entertainment is a French video game development and publishing company founded in 1992, but existing unofficially since 1989 as a developer group under the name Cryo...

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History

Picq first began composing in 1987. He retired from the industry in 1998 and moved to Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. In February 2006, Stéphane announced that he was building a new studio in Madagascar and may release a compilation of old songs.

Musical style

Stéphane Picq claims to own dozens of instruments from all over the world and the ability to play all of them. His musical style incorporates "organic sonority", as he features many "organic sounds": breaths, water, sighs... The most representative examples are found in Dune: Spice Opera, but this technique is also used on other Cryo soundtracks (for example, "Thaa's Secret" in Lost Eden

Lost Eden

Lost Eden is an adventure game produced by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive in March 1995 for the PC running DOS, Macintosh, 3DO and CD-i . It is set in a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist. In it, one plays the human character Adam, and is accompanied by a number of...

).

Selected works

• Extase
  Extase (computer game)
  Extase is a computer game that was created in 1990 by Cryo Interactive, and published by Virgin Games.-Summary:It features some puzzles involving a sleeping female android that the player needed to wake up by cleaning its circuit. Each level represented a different level of emotion until the final...
  
  
• KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers
  KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers
  KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers is a graphic adventure game, released in 1989 by Exxos. The American version was sold under the title Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess.-Setting:The game is set in a post-apocalyptic environment...
  
  
• KGB
  KGB (computer game)
  KGB is a computer game released for the Commodore Amiga and IBM PC Compatible computers in 1992. Set in the decadent final days of the Soviet Union, KGB is considered to be quite difficult, even for experienced gamers, since it relies on a real time clock and correct/wrong answers which can end the...
  
  
• Dune: Spice Opera (the soundtrack to the game Dune
  Dune (video game)
  Dune is a 1992 video game, based upon Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name. Developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive, is the first of the Dune computer games. Dune blended adventure with economic and military strategy, and is considered by many the most...
  
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• MegaRace
  MegaRace
  MegaRace is a video game created by Cryo Interactive, released in 1994. It features pre-rendered 3-D graphics and over twenty minutes of full motion video of fictional game show host, Lance Boyle. It was released for MS-DOS on March 28, 1994, for the Sega Mega-CD/Sega CD on July 30, 1994 and for...
  
  
• Commander Blood
  Commander Blood
  Commander Blood is a science fiction adventure game that was developed by Cryo Interactive, a French company that also created Captain Blood . Designed to run on DOS, Commander Blood was released in 1994...
  
  
• Dragon Lore
  Dragon Lore
  Dragon Lore is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1994 by Cryo Interactive for MS-DOS CD-ROM, and later ported to the 3DO game console. The hero plays Werner, a farm boy who must interact with various characters in a fantasy atmosphere, solve puzzles, and fight enemies...
  
  
• Lost Eden
  Lost Eden
  Lost Eden is an adventure game produced by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive in March 1995 for the PC running DOS, Macintosh, 3DO and CD-i . It is set in a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist. In it, one plays the human character Adam, and is accompanied by a number of...
  
  
• Atlantis: The Lost Tales
  Atlantis: The Lost Tales
  Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released on September 30, 1997. The game is named after its initial and most important setting, Atlantis...
  
  
• Riverworld

External links

• Stéphane Picq's Musical Ship (official site)
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...