Ian Livingstone (composer)

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Ian Livingstone
Born (1969-07-04) 4 July 1969 (age 55)
London, England
Occupation(s)composer
Years active1994–present

Ian Paul Livingstone (born 4 July 1969, in London) is a British composer for television, films and video games. He jointly won an Ivor Novello Award in 2011 for a video game score for Napoleon: Total War . [1] He was classically trained from the age of five and has a background as a pop/dance music producer, band member and session musician. He is a graduate of Salford University. [2]

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Work

Video games

YearTitleNotes
1994 Rugby World Cup '95
1996Davis Cup Complete Tennis
1997Nightmare in the Toyfactory
1998 Xenocracy and sound effects
Football World Managerand sound effects
1999 Formula One 99
2000Tower of the Ancients
Starlancer and sound effects; with David Blinston
Star Trek: Invasion and sound effects; with David Blinston
Red Ace
Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom sound effects
2001 Lego Creator: Harry Potter and sound effects
Candy Cruncher
Art is Deadand sound effects; with Richard Beddow
2002Noah's Ark Deluxe
Disney's Treasure Planet
2003 X2: Wolverine's Revenge and sound effects
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seasand sound effects
Rocket Mania! Deluxe
Project Gotham Racing 2 with Mathias Grünwaldt and Rainer Heesch
NingPo Mah Jong
Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter with Dean Evans
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Text Express
2004 Pixelus and sound effects
Kingdom Hearts V CASTand sound effects
2005 Stolen and sound effects
Scuba Solitaire 3Dand sound effects
Predator: Concrete Jungle
Penguin Puzzleand sound effects
Capone Casino 3Dand sound effects
Batman Begins
2006 Hammer Heads and sound effects
Bionicle Heroes
2007 Boom Boom Rocket
Dungeons & Dragons Tactics
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts with Inon Zur
Bee Movie Game
Ultimate Chess 3Dand sound effects
2008 Race Driver: Grid with Aaron Sapp and Thomas Bergersen
Monopoly
2009Trivial Pursuit
Burn Zombie Burn and sound effects
Battlefield Heroes
Battlefield 1943
2010 Napoleon: Total War with Richard Beddow, Richard Birdstall and Simon Ravn
F1 2010
Create with Dominic Smart, David Newby and Hywel Payne
Top Gun
2011 F1 2011
Forza Motorsport 4 two tracks
All Zombies Must Die!
2012 F1 2012
2013 Grid 2
Total War: Rome II with Simon Ravn
F1 2013
WRC 4: FIA World Rally Championship "Heroic Conflict" (licensed from KPM Music)
Walking with Dinosaurs
2014 Lego The Hobbit with Rob Westwood
Commando Jackwith Adele Cutting and Hywel Payne
Grid Autosport
Valiant Hearts: The Great War "Dream Within Dreams" (licensed from KPM Music)
F1 2014
2015 Total War: Attila with various others
Total War: Warhammer with Richard Beddow, Tilman Sillescu and Tim Wynn
Lego Dimensions with Rob Westwood
2016 Lego Marvel's Avengers with Rob Westwood
Shadow of the Beast
2017 Total War: Warhammer II with various others
Lego Worlds with Rob Westwood
Oure
2018 MotoGP 18
Lego DC Super-Villains with Simon Withenshaw
2019 MotoGP 19
Jumanji: The Video Game with Michael Doherty
Heroic - Magic Duel
2020 Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Furious Wild
2021 F1 2021 with Ethan Livingstone, Miktek, Mark Willot and Brian Tyler
Forza Horizon 5 "Tulum"
2022 Total War: Warhammer III with various others
Grid Legends
The Quarry
F1 22 with Ethan Livingstone, Miktek, Rory Hay and Brian Tyler
2023 F1 23 with Ethan Livingstone and Brian Tyler

Television and film

He has composed for television for: [3]

Other

He has also produced songs, advertising jingles, movie scores and orchestrations. He also worked with Nokia during 2000 to 2004, [7] creating polyphonic arrangements of monophonic ringtones, including the Nokia tune, [2] as well as creating MIDI karaoke backing tracks for Roland. [8]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Composer and Ivor Novello winner Ian Livingstone talks to Time+Space" (Interview). Interviewed by Time+Space. 4 July 2013.
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  7. Ian Livingstone [@ianliv] (22 August 2021). "I worked for Nokia from 2000 to 2004 - I still have all the project orders which list all my ringtones, will dig out" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  8. Ong, Alexis (12 August 2022). "How Nokia ringtones became the first viral earworms". The Verge.