Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the cancelled game Jazz Jackrabbit 3D.
He worked in several MOD music groups over his composing years in the late 90's, including the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. During that time he also composed for several musicdisks such as Return to Stage 9.
Brandon has built several audio departments, starting with Ion Storm Austin in mid 2000. This was followed with an audio director position at Midway Home Entertainment in San Diego until 2007 when he started the audio department at Obsidian Entertainment. In February 2009 he built the audio department at Heatwave Interactive, also providing business development and overall media management. In April of 2010 Alex launched Funky Rustic, an independent audio production studio, working out of Georgetown, Texas.
AtmosphereS: Dreams (with George "The Fat Man" Sanger)
AtmosphereS: Moods (with Dan Gardopée)
AtmosphereS: Pulses (with Dan Gardopée)
AtmosphereS: Rhythms (with George Sanger)
Era's End (with Bryan Rudge)
Earthscape
The AtmosphereS albums generally contain ambient music, one of Brandon's major composing styles. Era's End showcases several other styles including pop and rock.