Mattias Häggström Gerdt currently studies musicology at the University of Stockholm, where he is being taught by the renowned Swedish musician Mats Larsson Gothe. A longtime member of the game arrangement community OverClocked ReMix, he serves on the website’s judges panel and arranges music under the name Another Soundscape.
A professional game composer, the musician’s credits include arrangements for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and original music for Artoon, The Perfect Match, Kaleidoscope and the forthcoming BlindEdge. In 2011 he was nominated for an Excellence in Audio Award for his music for Cobalt at the Independent Games Festival, taking place at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The game is planned to be the first externally developed title published by Minecraft studio Mojang.
On Songs we heard in ilomilo, the musician provides an upbeat arrangement of Cozy Sofa, titled “soffpotatis” which means couch potato in Swedish.
More music from Jim Guthrie’s acclaimed score for “Below,” “Vol. II” is another batch of absorbing, synth-driven worldbuilding. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 1, 2020