Alex Otterlei


Alex Otterlei is a multiple award-winning composer who writes evocative and often very filmic music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles.
Alongside, Otterlei has created music and sound effects for theatre, short films, video games, roleplaying games and art installations. His music appears on various albums.
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Biography

In the 1990s Otterlei pioneered the art of writing soundtracks for roleplaying games, resulting in popular rpg-soundtracks such as “Battlethemes”, “Arthur” and “Where Evil Lurks”.
His Cthulhu-inspired orchestral soundtrack “Horror on the Orient Express” achieved international acclaim.
Between 2003 and 2018 Alex Otterlei scored music and/or created sound effects for various videogames including the
award-winning series .
Starting from 2009 Otterlei also began to write concert music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles.
Although considered mainly autodidact, Otterlei was later on mentored by Hans Lamal and prominent composer Luc van Hove.

Style

Best described as neo-tonal, Otterlei does not shun recognizable melodies. He employs modern as well as traditional harmonies, integrating consonance and dissonance in a fluid and logical way. His rhythmic structures can be complex, but they also remain dependent of traditional metrical thinking.

Works

Symphonic

  • "Dona, Dona" for orchestra and beginning guitarist, based on a theme by Sholom Secunda
  • "Divinity, Song for Eternity", based on a theme by Kirill Pokrovsky
  • "Prologue to Horror on the Orient Express"
  • "Wondrous Journey Part I"
  • "New Beginnings"
  • "Ocean Ouverture"
  • "City Life & The Race"
  • "Horror on the Orient Express"

Concert band

  • "New Beginnings"
  • "Horror on the Orient Express"

Various ensembles

  • "Onwards We Go" for cello and contrabass, base on a theme by Kirill Pokrovsky
  • "Supercell" for piano, percussion and dance ensemble, in collaboration with Opening Doors and the European Disability Arts Festival
  • "Prologue to Horror on the Orient Express" for strings and piano
  • "Prelude for Harp and Mermaid" for harp and soprano
  • "Violince and Passion" for string quintet
  • "The Final Exile" for strings, samples and death metal band "Vaïs"
  • "Old Isaac's Party" for strings and piano
  • "The Yearning" for strings and woodwinds

Music theatre

Songs and lyrics (non-album)

  • "The Old Man", music and lyrics
  • "My Faerie Lady", music and lyrics
  • "Come to Daddy"
  • "Lady Life Loves You Too"
  • "The Rose and the Butterfly"
  • "Like an Autumn Leaf in Summer"
  • "Tell Me How I Was Before I Met You"
  • "Running at the Speed of Light
  • "Caught in a Spiral"
  • "Bodies in Danger"
  • "Visions of People"

Discography

  • 2012: "Wondrous Journey, Part 1"_Single download
  • 2011: "Eeuwige Sneeuw, Soundtrack" _CD
  • 2010: "New Beginnings"_Single download
  • 2006: "Where Evil Lurks, Special Edition"_CD re-release, with an exclusive story written by Rhianna Pratchett.)
  • 2005: "Xyanide, Official Soundtrack"_Enhanced CD
  • 2000: "Horror on the Orient Express"_CD
  • 1994: "Where Evil Lurks"_CD
  • 1993: "Horror Triptych"_mini CD
  • 1992: "Battlethemes"_CD
  • 1990: "Arthur"_CD

Game scores

  • 2017: "" for PC, Xbox One and PS4, ambient and sound effects
  • 2015: " " for PC, Xbox One and PS4, dialogues, ambient and sound effects
  • 2014: ""for PC, Xbox and PS4, ambient and sound effects
  • 2010: “” for PC and Xbox 360, additional music & sound design
  • 2010: " " for PC: music, ambient & SFX
  • 2008: "Totems" for Xbox 360 and PC
  • 2007: “Fairytale Fights”: ambient & sound effects
  • 2006: “Aqua Vita” for Sony PS3: sound effects
  • 2006: "" for Sony PS3: ambient and sound effects
  • 2006: "Xyanide Resurrection" for Sony PSP & PS2: ambient & sound effects + music for Animated Comic-bonus
  • 2005: "" for Sony PS3 and Xbox 360
  • 2005 "" for Sony PS2
  • 2003: "Xyanide" for Xbox: music score

Awards

  • 2011: Best Soundtrack Award for the shortfilm “Darkness” by Kevin Lauryssen at the
  • 2006: Gouden Klaproos Award for international achievements bestowed by SABAM
  • 2002: Best Young Filmcomposer Award at the World Soundtrack Awards