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Composer Jerry Martin started music lessons at age 10 and played guitar and keyboards in various ensembles through high school and college.

Mr. Martin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from California State University at Hayward California. His principle composition instructor was Robert Bassert.

Mr. Martin began graduate studies and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Center For Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland California. His principle instructors included Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, and North Indian Raga Master Pandit Pran Nath. Academic awards include: Hellman Piano scholarship and Elizabeth Mils Crothers prize for excellence in music composition.

In 1985 Mr. Martin founded his original music composition and production company “Musicontrol”. From 1985 to 1995 Mr. Martin composed and produced music for various projects such as video soundtracks to national TV and radio commercials, working with over 90 individual Film, Video and Ad Agency Producers on over 200 different commissions from companies such as AT&T, Toyota USA, NBA, Honda, etc.

In 1996 Mr. Martin joined the Maxis division of Electronic Arts as Studio Audio Director and Lead Composer. From 1996 through 2004, he composed and produced music and directed the audio for multi-platinum video game franchises such as “The Sims” and “SimCity”.

In 2005, Mr. Martin started his new company, Jerry Martin Music, and is currently working on various professional and personal musical projects.
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  • grisha_grishin

    goooood

    31 Mar 10:12am Reply

  • bernlin2000

    Simcity 4: decent game, unforgettable soundtrack

    12 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Apoplettico

    you don't know but you've grown me up even better than my parents

    20 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Spennet

    UpDown Town - Soundtrack of my childhood

    23 Oct 2012 Reply

  • oceanseacrest

    My hero

    14 Oct 2012 Reply

  • gatewayaaron

    It doesn't sound like Jerry Martin is composing the music for the upcoming SimCity game in 2013, which is a little disappointing. The incredible soundtracks from SC3k and SC4 really defined the personality of those games, and they're still amazing to listen to today.

    19 Aug 2012 Reply

  • YoFaaaWay

    fuck yeah "buy mode 3"

    11 Aug 2012 Reply

  • y2penni

    SIM CITY 3000 (2)

    22 Mar 2012 Reply

  • duplicatedcopy

    I've always been very fond of the music from sim city 3000

    27 Feb 2012 Reply

  • Regular_Mike

    To follow up on my last post here, I was chuffed to get a surprise response back in December, in which Jerry confirmed he never named Build 4, Buy 4, or Latin 7. "The reason some of the tunes have titles and some don't is that I was going to do a soundtrack CD and named the ones I thought would be on it. I never did it anyway though."

    25 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ElectroPeter

    The Sims <3

    20 Feb 2012 Reply

  • SNR1984A

    Oasis transforms me in an abstract being =D

    15 Jan 2012 Reply

  • SysLocal

    If anyone is interested here's a link to the Build Mode sheet music: https://sites.google.com/site/pseudomusicsite/music/the-sims

    27 Dec 2011 Reply

  • Regular_Mike

    Huh, thanks for sharing internalnebula! So Marc wrote it, but I suppose that it's Jerry playing it... I sent Jerry some fanmail a while back asking about some titles too but got no response. Still don't have a name for Buy Mode 4...

    26 Oct 2011 Reply

  • Ewinnn

    Window Washer's Dream!!!

    28 Sep 2011 Reply

  • internalnebula

    I emailed Jerry 3 years ago, and he said Marc Russo wrote build4, ie. "If You Really See Eurydice". "Thanks for your email. I'm glad you like the music! build #5 is called "Now What" I'm not sure what we called #4 since this was written by my associate, Marc Russo." jyfi if you want correct tags.

    21 Sep 2011 Reply

  • NTG99

    Window Washer's Dream is EPIC (2)

    17 Sep 2011 Reply

  • End_of_Eternity

    Childhood :)

    11 Sep 2011 Reply

  • let_itdrown

    simcity 3000. fuck yes.

    10 Sep 2011 Reply

  • nikewoodwind

    Here's the more official tracklisting to The Sims music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_Original_Video_Game_Soundtrack (don't refer to the soundtrack. Just scroll down to "All Tracks")

    17 Aug 2011 Reply
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