Jason Graves

Jason Graves (born 1973) is an American television, film, and video game music composer.

Quotes

 * My favorite aspect about horror music is you can literally write anything you want. You are limited only by your imagination! In fact, many times the more unique and completely original your music is, the better it works in the game and the more the developer loves it.
 * Exclusive Interview: Composer Jason Graves Discusses Dead Space, F.E.A.R. 3 and Resistance: Burning Skies (May 14, 2012)


 * I think any composer is the sum of their life experience, and that's what makes each of them interesting and different.
 * Interview: The Man Behind the Music - Jason Graves (May 16, 2015)


 * When I'm watching a scary movie and there's a shadow or a flicker under the bed, that's scary because the unknown is so much scarier than when, two-thirds of the way through the movie, it's revealed that it's a guy in a mask. Once it becomes tangible and fixed in your mind's eye, it becomes a lot less scary to me and I think music is the same way. If you don't recognize that sound, your brain immediately tells you to run away. It's the shark fin in the water, it's hearing the music and then maybe you see a fin, it's all about the build up to the 'boo' itself and that has been my entire philosophy about horror music from the beginning – how unrecognizable is it going to be?
 * Doom, Dead Space & Alien-Isolation Composers Explain How To Create Horror Video Game Scores (August 2, 2018)