July’s Featured Sound Designer: Axel Rohrbach

Axel Rohrbach is the lead sound designer of Dynamedion, an audio production studio based in Germany and focused on video games content. He’s also co-founder and creative director of BOOM Library. This month we have the honor of feature him as our special guest, so let’s get started!

Bio

• Born 1981 in Frechen near Cologne, Germany.
• Parents got a music school, started with classical music education at an age of 4.
• Having the chance to get a wide variety of instrument lessons, including classical piano (main instrument), E-Bass, E-Organ, Keyboard, Trombone, Singing.

Education

• Yamaha support programme for young composer (1989 – 1993)
• Bachelor of Arts in Music Technologies, ArtEZ Conservatorium Enschede (NL)
• Master of Music in Music Technologies, Messiaen Academy (NL)

Workshops, Presentations

• Tonmeister Symposium Sound Design, Lecture – Sound Design for Games (2007)
• onmeistertagung 2008, Workshop – Game Audio (2008)
• Tonmeistertagung 2008, Roundtable – Game Audio (2008)
• Tonmeister Magazine, Interview – Interactive Audio (2009)
• Olymptronica, Lecture – Audio in Games (2009)
• Browser Games Forum ,Workshop – Audio in Browsergames (2009)
• Games Convention Online, Lecture – The Importance of audio in online games (2010)
• Conservatorium Enschede, Workshop – Sound Design (2011)
• Diverse Printmagazine Reports / Interviews

Selected Works

— PC/Next Gen

• Anno 2070 (coming soon) – Ubisoft
• Risen 2 (coming soon) – Deep Silver
• Alan Wake – Microsoft Game Studios
• Dawn of Discovery (aka Anno 1404) – Ubisoft
• XBox Kinect – Microsoft
• Arcania – Gothic 4 – Jowood
• Drakensang – dtp Entertainment
• Lost Horizon – Deep Silver
• Black Prophecy – Gamigo
• Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance – dtp Entertainment
• Battle Forge – EA Games
• Crazy Machines 1 + 2 – dtp Entertainment
• Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island – dtp Entertainment
• Secret Files 2 – Puritas Cordis – Deep Silver
• Legend – Hand Of God – Anaconda
• Greed: Black Border – Headup Games
• Velvet Assassin – SouthPeak Interactive Ltd
• Venetica – dtp Entertainment
• Sacred 2 – Deep Silver
• Anno 1701 – Deep Silver / Ubisoft / Sunflowers
• Overclocked – Anaconda
• The Settlers VI – Ubisoft
• Söldner X (1 + 2) – Eastasiasoft

— Trailers

• Battle Star Galactica Online Launch Trailer – NBC / Syfy / UCP / Bigpoint
• StarTrek Infinite Space Launch Trailer – CBS / Gameforge
• Cursed Mountain Launch Trailer – Deep Silver Vienna
• Risen Launch Trailer – Deep Silver
• Divinity 2 Intro and Release Trailer – dtp Entertainment
• Runes of Magic Launch Trailer – Frogster
• Necrovision Release Trailer – Aspyr / 1C Publishing
• Secret Files 2 Cinema Trailer – Deep Silver
• DirecTV Audio Brand – DirecTV USA
• MVB Cinema Commercial – Fischer Appelt TV
• UC? Image Film – Rinspeed
• iChange Image Film – Rinspeed

— Browser & Mobile

• Star Trek Infinite Space Browser – Gameforge
• Coachpotatoes Facebook – Gameforge
• Monstersaga Browser – Gameforge
• Warpfire Browser – Gameforge
• Atlantis Browser – Plazz Entertainment
• Crazy Labyrinth NDS – dtp Entertainment
• Crazy Machines NDS – dtp Entertainment
• Woodleys Summersports – dtp Entertainment
• CrossworDS NDS – Deep Silver
• Think 2 NDS – dtp Entertainment