Martin O’Donnell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin O'Donnell
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	May 1, 1955(1955-05-01)
Age	69
Birthplace	West Chester
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Taurus

Martin O'Donnell Biography

Martin O'Donnell is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on May 1, 1955 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. The music composer in video games was created created by Bungie, the company behind the games. Bungie which includes “Halo,” “Oni,” and “Myth.” He was a frequent collaborator with Michael Salvatori.

The “Halo 2 Original Soundtrack” was created by the legendary funk and soul singer Nile Rodgers.

O’Donnell’s music has been packaged into several soundtrack collections. For Halo’ s music, O’Donnell created “frozen” arrangements that represented an approximation of a play-through of the games. The Halo Original Soundtrack sold over 40,000 copies, and was followed by two different releases of the music to Halo 2. The two volumes of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack were produced by Nile Rodgers, with the first album being released in sync with the video game in 2004 and became the best-selling game soundtrack of all time in the United States. The second album was released more than a year after the soundtrack had been mixed and mastered.

O’Donnell’s score to the Halo trilogy has been called iconic, earning him several awards, and the commercial soundtrack release of the music to Halo 2 was the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time in the United States. He went on to compose the scores for Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009), and Halo: Reach (2010). His final work for Bungie was composing music for the 2014 video game Destiny that went unused. He successfully sued Bungie for firing him from the company due to unpaid wages. Subsequently, he co-founded Highwire Games and composed the score for their debut virtual reality game Golem, which was released in late 2019.

His mother was a piano teacher and his father was film director.

Martin O'Donnell Net Worth

Martin O'Donnell is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin O'Donnell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an audio grip for television and film productions following his graduation with distinction from USC. He started his own studio for sound design in the mid-1990s , which he named TotalAudio.

His music were used for “Halo” series was compiled in “Halo: Original Soundtrack,” which was a huge success, selling more than 4000 copies.

After producing the music for Oni, O’Donnell was tasked with composing the music for Bungie’s next project, which would be unveiled at E3 2000. After talking with Joseph Staten, O’Donnell decided the music needed to be “big, exciting, and unusual with a classical orchestra touch to give it some weight and stature. We also wanted it to have some sort of ‘ancient’ feel to it.” O’Donnell came up with the idea of opening the piece with gregorian chant and jotted down the melody in his car. Because he did not know how long the presentation would be, O’Donnell created “smushy” opening and closing sections that could be expanded or cut as time required to back up a rhythmic middle section. The music was recorded and sent to New York the same night the piece was finished; the resulting music became the basis for the Halo series’ “highly recognizable” signature sound, and what has been called one of the best-known video game themes. The use of the chant in the main theme has been credited with contributing to popular interest in the genre. Halo’ s music used an interactive engine to change music in response to player’s actions; this non-linear method has since become widespread. The scores for Halo and its sequel Halo 2 garnered awards such as The Game Developer’s Choice Award and Best Original Video Game Soundtrack from Rolling Stone.

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In 2015, music from the Halo series was voted by listeners into the Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time, reaching position 244.

Facts & Trivia

Martin Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Martin O'Donnell celebrates birthday on May 1 of every year.

Why did Martin O'Donnell leave Halo?

Bungie fired O’Donnell in 2014 following an internal disagreement over how the studio and Activision, Destiny’s original publisher, used or didn’t use music he had composed for that game.

What is Martin O'Donnell doing now?

O’Donnell has a new studio, Highwire Games , working on the controversial game Six Days in Fallujah. Destiny 2 is currently mainly scored by Michael Salvatori, who has been well-received by fans since O’Donnell’s departure years ago. Others who have worked on Destiny 2’s score have been Skye Lewin, C.

Who did the music for Halo?

The Halo Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack for the video game Halo: Combat Evolved. Composed and produced by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori for Bungie, the soundtrack was released on June 11, 2002.

What is music of the spheres Destiny?

Music of the Spheres is an eight-part musical companion piece to Destiny, composed by Marty O’Donnell together with Michael Salvatori and Paul McCartney. Parts of the music were used to accompany a Destiny trailer at E3 2013, and in the official soundtrack.

Did Martin O'Donnell work in Halo infinite?

Martin O’Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie’s series, such as Myth, Oni, Halo, and Destiny.