Rik Schaffer


Rik Schaffer is an American composer, musician, and sound designer. He's known as one of the top sound designers in the video game industry. He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music industry as a member of several acts such as Tomorrow's Child and Engines of Aggression. He often works with his partner Margaret Tang.
Rik has also composed original soundtracks for video games, gaining recognition particularly for his work on The Elder Scrolls Online and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.
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Discography

Studio albums

Tomorrow's Child.
Engines of Aggression.
  • Speak EP
  • Illusion Is Real single
  • Inhuman Nature
  • Engines of Aggression EP
Womb.
  • Bella
Instrumental versions of Clean, Selfless Doubt and As Lonely As I Am are present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
It was reissued on Spotify in 2025 with a slightly altered tracklist as Bella+.
Nectar.
  • Afterglow
An instrumental version of We Just Disagree is present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
The last track Black Sheep is misspelled as "Back Sheep." on the cd jewel case.
Rik Schaffer Fruit of the Poison Tree
Innocence Once Lost is the same edited track originally from Bella, while Another Bite of the Eternal and Evening in Koreatown are reworked versions of The Bite is Eternal and Chinatown Theme respectively.

Video game original scores

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Video game Editorial and Sound Design

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