One (C418 album)
| Daniel Rosenfeld | |
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Rosenfeld in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | C418 |
| Born |
May 9, 1989 East Germany |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Independent musician, composer, sound engineer |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Ghostly International |
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| Website | c418 |
Daniel Rosenfeld, (born May 9, 1989) also known as C418 /ˈsiː.fɔːr.eɪtiːn/, is a German musician, producer and sound engineer best known as the composer and sound designer for the video game Minecraft. He has also written and produced the theme for Beyond Stranger Things.
Rosenfeld was born and grew up in East Germany after German reunification, the son of a Soviet goldsmith and a German mother. He says that he learned to create music on early versions of Schism Tracker and Ableton Live in the early 2000s, which were both rudimentary tools at the time. It was his brother who introduced him to music composition though Ableton Live, commenting that "even an idiot" can successfully create music with it.
In 2007, Rosenfeld started a blog where he posted a new song every week, known as "Blödsinn am Mittwoch" or BAM for short. This was around the same time when he became interested in game development and audio, which resulted in him joining indie game development forum TIGSource, where he became involved with numerous smaller game developers.
On TIGSource, Rosenfeld began collaborating with Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson. Rosenfeld was responsible for the sound effects and music in Persson's work-in-progress video game Minecraft. The sound engine in the still young Java game was not very powerful, so Rosenfeld had to be creative in his approach to creating sound effects and music.
As a freelance artist, Rosenfeld was not on staff at Mojang, the organization behind Minecraft. Rosenfeld still owns the rights to all the music in the game, and has released two albums featuring songs from the Minecraft soundtrack. The first soundtrack, Minecraft – Volume Alpha, was digitally released on March 4, 2011 on his Bandcamp page. The video game blog Kotaku selected the music of Minecraft as one of the best video game soundtracks of 2011.
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