James Hannigan

James Hannigan (born July 23, 1971) is a BAFTA-celebrated composer and writer of incidental music.

His past and current projects include "Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince (video game)", ', "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)", "Freelancer", "Brute Force", "Catwoman", "Evil Genius", ', "Sim Theme Park", "Sim Coaster", "Grand Prix 4", "Warhammer", "F1 Series", "F1 Manager", "FIFA Soccer Manager", "Reign of Fire", ', "Infestation", ' and others.

Hannigan's music has been nominated four times by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and he shared a win with Electronic Arts in 2000 for "Sim Theme Park". An accomplished sound designer, in earlier years Hannigan also worked on films such as "Lost in Space" and is based at Pinewood Studios in the UK, where he heads up the production company Post Linear Creations.

In 2004, Hannigan wrote "Changing Our Tune", a seminal cover article for the UK's "Develop" magazine, which outlined the differences between scoring for games and conventional linear media forms. He has also been featured and/or interviewed in journals such as "Resolution", "Audio Media", "Post" and" Musician", and has talked at events such as the Edinburgh International Games Festival, Musicworks and the BAFTA Interactive Festival. In 2007, a collage of James's music from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was added to Video Games Live - debuting in London at the Royal Festival Hall on October 22nd, 2007, and featuring the Philharmonia orchestra.

External links

* [http://www.jameshannigan.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://www.jameshannigan.co.uk/hotandcold.htm Article on music in games by James Hannigan]