Michael John Gordon is an Australian composer, record producer, musician, and sound designer who mostly writes music for video games.
Among the first-person shooters for which Gordon has written music are LawBreakers, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Prey, the 2016 version of Doom and its sequel Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and seasons one and two of the 2013 fighting game Killer Instinct.
When Gordon was in his teens, he started playing guitar and playing jazz, and blues. He first started working as a sound designer for Pandemic Studios, where he also contributed to Destroy All Humans’ sound design.
He provided the music for the first season of the 2013 remake of the 1994 fighting video game Killer Instinct. The next year, Gordon scored Wolfenstein: The New Order, an action-adventure first-person shooter, and Killer Instinct’s second season (developed by MachineGames).
What synth does Mick Gordon use?
Mick Gordon uses Moog Moogerfooger MF-107 FreqBox.
What software does Mick Gordon use?
Mick Gordon says, “I use FL Studio on absolutely everything. I use it for scoring, sequencing, designing sounds, and musical sound design. It’s just so easy to work with, and work with quickly.”
In order to write the score for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, a prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, he returned to the Wolfenstein series in 2015.
