MUSIC
REELS
Video Game Music Reel
Game Audio Implementation Reel
COMPOSITION
No matter what style I'm writing in, all my music shares one common trait:
a distinct creative voice.
ORCHESTRATION
My arrangements have been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world. Focus on the big picture and I can help shape your vision as part of your team.
IMPLEMENTATION
I love creating dynamic music systems for games and I'm happy to program them myself in industry-standard middleware like Wwise.
MIX/MASTER
Polishing a piece of music can be just as difficult as writing it. Leave those details to me.
ABOUT
Mark Benis is a multimedia composer and game developer whose love for catchy Game Boy music has inspired him beyond anything he could have imagined.
His orchestral score to Francisco González’s detective adventure game Lamplight City was nominated for a Game Audio Network Guild Award for “Best Original Choral Composition”. Continuing his collaboration with González, Mark scored Western adventure game Rosewater starring an all-star cast of voice actors like Cissy Jones, Christian Lanz and Dave Fennoy. His music has been placed in TV shows worldwide including franchises like Masterchef and The Bachelor.
In video game development, Mark was a co-owner of Bonte Avond where he developed Everybody Wham Wham and Once Upon a Jester, which won an Independent Games Festival (IGF) award. While there he acted in a variety of roles like sound design, dialogue editing, voice acting and marketing, and he collaborated with content creators like Karl Jacobs, CORPSE and FoolishGamers.
As an audio programmer Mark has contributed additional music implementation to MachineGames’ and Arkane Lyon’s first-person shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood. As a dialogue editor he worked on Nighthawks, a vampire-themed adventure game written by Richard Cobbett and produced by Wadjet Eye Games.
Currently Mark is scoring IceToad Studio’s upcoming mirror puzzle game AiliA, which draws inspiration from traditional Chinese culture.
Mark studied at Brown University where he received a Bachelor’s in Music and Chemical Engineering, and he later received a Master’s in Screen Scoring from New York University. He resides in the United Kingdom and travels between the London Area and New York.
CREDITS
IN THE WORKS
[To Be Announced] - Co-composer with Clark Aboud
AiliA (TBA) - Audio director (composition, sound design and audio programming/implementation)
FILM / TV / VIDEO GAMES
Nighthawks (TBA) - Dialogue editing
Somnipathy (2023) - Main theme composer
Everybody Wham Wham (2021) - Sound design, music arranging, business dev/marketing, voice acting
Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019) - Additional music implementation
MUSIC
Mark Benis - SUMMERBORNE (2024) - Composition, production, mastering
Mark Benis - Elden Ring: Lands Bitween (2024) - Arranging, production, mastering
Moon Moon Moon - Silly Symphonies (2022) - Strings and winds recording management, music preparation
The Worst Grim Reaper - Soul Mates (2019) - Mastering
Moon Moon Moon - Powerpoint of Emma Stone (2019) - Mastering, additional mixing
Moon Moon Moon - Double Weird (2018) - Mixing, mastering
Moon Moon Moon, Robin Kester - Frozen (2018) - Mastering
Moon Moon Moon - Journal Entry 8: Ruining My First Video Interview (2018) - Mastering
Mark Benis - Summerborne: A Musical Narrative for Septet (2015) - Composition, conducting
PRODUCTION MUSIC
Big Sync: Mark Benis, Mark Lohmann, Matt Nicholson - Wonder (2021)
Twisted Jukebox: Mark Benis, Mark Lohmann, Taddeo Suzuma - Perfect Moments (2020)
Felt PM: Mark Benis, Mark Lohmann, Matt Nicholson - The Pacific Northwest 2 (2020)
Felt PM: Mark Benis, Mark Lohmann, Matt Nicholson - Independent Cinema Club 2 (2020)
PremiumBeat: Mark Benis, Mark Lohmann, Matt Nicholson - [Various tracks] (2020)
MUSIC VIDEOS
AWARDS
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Once Upon a Jester won Best Student Game at the 2024 Independent Games Festival (IGF)
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Once Upon a Jester was nominated for Best Game at the 2023 Dutch Game Awards
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Once Upon a Jester won Best Audio at Reboot Develop Blue 2023 Indie Awards
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At the Gamescom Latam Big Festival 2024, Once Upon a Jester won Best Narrative, and the game was nominated for Best Sound, Innovation and Best Game
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Lamplight City was nominated for a Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Award for Best Original Choral Composition in 2019
PRESS
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Interview with Kate Remington of WSHU for Music Respawn - Mark Benis' Music Amplifies The Mystery In 'Lamplight City' (2018)