Erik Desiderio is a groundbreaking composer and sound designer for film, TV and video games from the Washington D.C. area. His video game highlights include work on Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer by Blizzard Entertainment, Star Trek: Fleet Command for CBS Interactive, Adventure Time: Magic Man’s Head Games by Cartoon Network, This Means War by Kabam, and the epic MMO VR space battle game Anshar Online. Sumthing Else Music, Nile Roger’s record label, recently released the soundtrack for Anshar Online.
He has composed or created sound design for more than 80 games, with clients that include Zynga, Bandai Namco, Nintendo, Betsoft Gaming, and Big Fish Games. Film festival highlights include screenings at the Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto film festivals. Television credits include work on Harley and the Davidsons, Graves, Duck Dynasty, Entourage and music for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Music production work includes the Academy Award winning film The Moon and the Son, The Glades, Immortals (#1 at the Box Office), and the multi Emmy Award winning series, The Borgias. Ad clients include Google, Samsung, Coffee-Mate, Kellogg’s, Heineken, Shell, L’Oreal, among others.
Erik’s composition style is diverse, with a strong dramatic orchestral and electronic background. He excels at creating quirky ethnic instrument based scores, and at combining different musical styles and electronic instruments to create an original soundscape.