15 Facts About Jesper Kyd

Jesper Kyd Jakobson is a Danish composer and sound designer who has worked on various video game, television, and film projects.

Jesper Kyd has composed soundtracks for the Hitman series, Assassin's Creed series, Borderlands series, Darksiders II and State of Decay, among many others.

Jesper Kyd created and scored the first wild demo, Global Trash 2, together with Mikael Balle.

Jesper Kyd then left the demoscene and started to work as a game musician.

Jesper Kyd composed music for two additional Zyrinx titles, Red Zone and Scorcher and the music for two externally developed games, Amok and The Adventures of Batman and Robin for the Sega Genesis.

Many former Zyrinx members returned to Denmark to start IO Interactive, but Jesper Kyd moved to New York City and set up his own sound studio in Manhattan called "Nano studios".

Jesper Kyd then worked as a freelance video game musician.

Jesper Kyd then recorded the soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin with 110 musicians of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir.

Jesper Kyd used modern electronica and symphonic and choral music in Hitman: Contracts.

Jesper Kyd followed up with Hitman: Blood Money, performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir.

Jesper Kyd then provided a cinematic middle eastern-based score for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed.

Jesper Kyd then wrote music for several games in the Assassin's Creed and Borderlands franchise.

Jesper Kyd composed the soundtrack of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, which released in 2022.

Jesper Kyd sought to create a score that would fit a retro-futuristic setting, and avoided using orchestral elements and guitars, which were typically found in other Warhammer games.

Jesper Kyd's influences include composers such as Ottorino Respighi, Igor Stravinsky, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and bands such as Royksopp, the Knife, Pink Floyd, and Underworld.