Chuck E. Myers

Alt. Name: Chuck E. Meyers, Big Idea Music Productions
Date of Birth:
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah (USA)
Website: www.bigideainc.com

Biography / Trivia

Chuck E. Myers has developed Big Idea Music Productions over the past eighteen years. Myers has led Big Idea with a deep understanding of the technological side of music production combined with his love for composition. His command of music, art, and science, his talents as a pianist and drummer and his vivid imagination have allowed him to become a true innovator. He also plays a wide variety of other obscure instruments including Shakuhachi, Ban Di, Quena, Harmonica, and many other percussion instruments.

He studied Electrical Engineering and Music at the University of Utah from 1982-1988. Chuck has worked on many feature films including Darkman III, Army of Darkness-Evil Dead Part III, and Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde. He has performed around the country with many groups and with several symphonies, including the National Symphony in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Symphony, and the Utah Symphony. He was the keyboard player for the Dixie Chicks at the 2002 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies. Myers has composed main theme music for many news stations across the country, including KSL, KTVX, and KUTV in Salt Lake City, KDFW and KXAS in Dallas, and WCBS in New York City. Myers was also one the principle composers for ABC’s Network Theme, The National Geographic Explorer Theme, NBC Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Myers is currently the principle composer and producer for a long list of many of today’s most popular video games for the Sony Playstation I and II, and the Microsoft X-Box. He produced a remix of “pug” for the smashing pumpkins. He also worked with the Freedom Zone for Mountain Dew’s AMP Energy Drink National Radio Campaign and Music Circuit. Myers is developing non-linear music composition techniques to support interactive multimedia applications which are leading the way in contemporary film style orchestral scoring for video games.

source: bigideainc.com

Games (20)

Year Title Platform Composer
1995 Twisted Metal PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Lance Lenhart
1995 WarHawk PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Lance Lenhart
1996 Jet Moto PSX, PC Chuck E. Myers, Lance Lenhart, Tom Hopkins
1996 Twisted Metal 2 PSX, PC Chuck E. Myers, Lance Lenhart, Tom Hopkins
1997 Critical Depth PSX Ben Carson, Tom Hopkins, Chuck E. Myers, Tino Saiki, Sandra Geary
1998 Outwars PC Chuck E. Myers, Ben Carson, Tom Hopkins, Brady Ellis, Tino Saiki
1998 Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Ben Carson, Brady Ellis, Tino Saiki, (Licensed Music)
1998 Streak Hoverboard Racing PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Ben Carson, Brady Ellis, Tino Saiki
2000 Animorphs: Shattered Reality PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins
2000 Looney Tunes Racing PSX Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, Brady Ellis, Tino Saiki, Anastasia Nikiforova
2000 Power Spike Pro Beach Volleyball PSX KBP Production, Christophe Crouzet, Bruno Baher, Hal Bop, W. Scott Snyder, Chuck E. Myers, Tino Saiki
2001 Twisted Metal: Small Brawl PSX Mike Reagan, Gregory J. Hainer, Riptide Music, Chuck E. Myers
2002 Circus Maximus: Chariot Wars PS2, XBOX Chuck E. Myers, Tino Saiki, Brady Ellis
2002 Frogger Beyond GC, PC, PS2, XBOX Chuck E. Myers, Brady Ellis, Lisle Moore, Tino Saiki, Walt Gaisford
2002 RalliSport Challenge PC, XBOX Chuck E. Myers, Tino Saiki, (Licensed Music)
2003 Downhill Domination PS2 Tino Saiki, Brady Ellis, Tom Hopkins, Lisle Moore, Anthony Zito, Walt Gaisford, Chuck E. Myers, (Licensed Music)
2003 Midtown Madness 3 XBOX Olof Gustafsson, Chuck E. Myers, (?), DHM Music Design, Triom Production
2003 War of the Monsters PS2 Lisle Moore, Brady Ellis, Ben Carson, Tino Saiki, Chuck E. Myers
2004 Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix 2 XBOX Jesper Kyd, Chuck E. Myers, Various
2005 Twisted Metal: Head-On PSP The Swivelheads, Chuck E. Myers, (?), Game Audio Ltd., Lukas Burton, Inon Zur, Level

Added by Rimo on Jun 19, 2008 12:58 PM Edited by Rimo on Jun 19, 2008 12:58 PM