Music captured Jason Graves at a young age, and never let him go. After becoming enamoured with John Williams’s ET soundtrack, music became “an emotional touchpoint” for him. Singing lessons, piano lessons, and musicals were just the beginning; he’s been performing music in one way or another since elementary school.
Graves went on to learn a variety of instruments, and in college majored in music. “I thought I was going to be an educator or a performer of some sort,” he says, “but I decided that what I really wanted to do was attempt to write the kind of music that emotionally charged me as a kid, and even now”. Thus he switched from general music study to composition.
Today, Graves is an experienced composer, with an enviable CV that encompasses games, TV, and movies. His game credits include Dead Space, Moss, The Dark Pictures series and the 2013 Tomb Raider to name a few. His favourite music to write, he says with a smile, is, “Whatever I wasn’t doing the day before!” So how does scoring a game differ from scoring anoninteractive project?