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Vreeland in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Richard Vreeland
Born	(1986-06-29) June 29, 1986 (age 38) Staten Island, New York, United States
Genres	Chiptune, electronic, ambient, experimental rock
Occupations	Musician composer
Years active	2004–present
Website	disasterpeace.com

Richard Vreeland (born June 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Disasterpeace, is an American composer and musician. He first got started in music after learning the guitar in high school and started writing music around the age of 17. Known for his work as a chiptune artist, Vreeland has scored many video games, including Fez and Hyper Light Drifter. He stepped into film score composition with the 2015 film It Follows, and has since composed the scores for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Under the Silver Lake, Triple Frontier, and Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Childhood

Vreeland's first introduction to music was as a child, growing up in Staten Island. He spent a great deal of time learning from his step-father, who was a trained musician. In an interview, Vreeland stated, "As a child, I was mesmerized by drums. My step-father was the music director of our church and they would have band practice in the basement. Many of my fondest memories are of going down there to jam away on the drums, when they were there".

Career

Fez

Vreeland composed Fez's chiptune-esque electronic soundtrack. Despite his background in chiptune, Vreeland limited his use of that genre's mannerisms in the score. He worked with soft synth pads and reverb to push the score closer to an '80s synthesizer sound. He also reduced reliance on percussion and incorporated distortion techniques like bitcrushing and wow. Vreeland opted for slower passages with varying tempos that could "ebb, flow, and breathe with the player". He left some portions of Fez without music. Vreeland worked on its soundtrack at night for about 14 months while scoring Shoot Many Robots, and Brandon McCartin of Aquaria contributed the game's sound effects.

It Follows

In 2014, Vreeland produced the soundtrack for David Robert Mitchell's sophomore film It Follows, after being approached by Mitchell, a fan of Vreeland's work on the video game Fez.

Hyper Light Drifter

Disasterpeace composed the soundtrack for Hyper Light Drifter, a game developed by Heart Machine in 2016. The score follows Disasterpeace's previous soundtrack work and was listed as "One of the year's best scores, in any medium" by FACT.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Compilations

Soundtracks

References

1. "Fine Tuning Interview: Rich Vreeland (Disasterpeace)". Esperino. Archived from the original on July 24, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
2. Courtney, Timothy (March 26, 2016). "Game Talk: Composer of Games Like Fez & Shoot Many Robots, Rich Vreeland Interview with Timothy Courtney". timothycourtney.io. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
3. Hollander Cooper (April 12, 2012). "Fez review". GamesRadar+. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
4. ^ Kirk Hamilton (April 12, 2012). "Fez's Beautiful Soundtrack Lives and Breathes Video Game Dreaminess". Kotaku. Gawker Media. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
5. "GameSetWatch Two Minutes Of Fez's Charming World". gamesetwatch.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
6. "Scoring Horror Interview with RICH VREELAND". Cinema Knife Fight. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
7. "The 50 best albums of 2016". FACT. December 13, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.

External links

• Official website

• 1986 births
• 21st-century American composers
• 21st-century American male musicians
• American electronic musicians
• American film score composers
• American male film score composers
• Chiptune and tracker musicians
• Electronic composers
• Living people
• Musicians from New York (state)
• American video game composers