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Michael David Nielsen
Michael David Nielsen
Michael David Nielsen
Background information
Birth nameMichael David Nielsen
OriginUnited States Los Angeles, USA
GenresElectronica, Ambient, Pop Music, Orchestral
Occupation(s)Composer, Music producer
Instrument(s)Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
Years active2002 - present
Websitehttp://www.michaelnielsenmusic.com

Michael David Nielsen (born April 1, 1974) is an American musician and composer for movie trailers, video games and television; his works range from electronical to orchestral.

Career

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Nielsen studied history at UCLA and graduated in 1997. As a musician, he is self-taught, he played rock guitar and in 2000 formed the Triangle Production team that specialized in producing songs for movie soundtracks.

Nielsen produced for Brian Tyler, The Pussycat Dolls, Kenny Loggins, The Bahamen, and Lenny Kravitz. In 2002, Nielsen worked with James Brown on one of his last single releases "Killing is Out, School is In".

Nielsen's soundtracks for the movie Scooby Doo (2002) reached #4 on Billboards charts Top Soundtracks. Other films that feature his music include Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002), Blue Crush (2002), American Pie: American Wedding (2003), Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), The Island (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), Grindhouse (2007), Sydney White (2007), Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008), and Another Cinderella Story (2008) for which Nielsen co-wrote and produced all of the original songs, including Selena Gomez's "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" that became Gomez's first song to chart on Billboards Hot 100. and was also released on Kidz Bop 15 CD. In the same year, Michael Nielsen was one of the composers for the animated television show Wolverine and the X-Men.

In 2004, Nielsen founded the production company Ninja Tracks, the company responsible for producing the Full Tilt trailer music libraryref>http://trailermusicnews.com/interview/video-interview-michael-nielsen-kaveh-cohen</ref>. Nielsen's compositions on Full Tilt have been used in trailers for many different films, such as The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Avatar (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Robin Hood (2010) and Toy Story 3 (2010). In 2010, Nielsen and his Ninja Tracks partner Kaveh Cohen[1] scored the Xbox 360 video game, Splinter Cell Conviction[2] [3]<.

Compositions for Films

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Compositions for Film Trailers

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Compositions for Game Trailers

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Full Tilt Discography

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  • Full Tilt I, II, & III
  • Full Tilt: Black
  • Full Tilt: Rising
  • Full Tilt: Comedy Tools
  • Trailer Tools I, II & III

Interviews

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References

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  1. ^ David Cohen Home Page
  2. ^ http://www.tracksounds.com/specialfeatures/interviews/interview_kaveh_cohen_michael_nielsen_2008_page1.htm
  3. ^ http://mixonline.com/game_audio/features/audio_gamers_game/

External References

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