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Shannon Mason (Pongball)

Music inspired by video games, old and new.

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI'm Shannon, also known as Pongball!
I'm a MIDI composer who writes music in the style of video games, mostly from the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 eras. I don't currently write music professionally, but I'd like to very soon. I've been writing music using MIDI for almost a decade now.
Everything you hear (unless otherwise noted), was written and sequenced completely from scratch, even the drumlines. While my compositions are inspired by the general style of game music, I don't consciously borrow any ideas or melodies from existing video game songs (though occasionally I have by accident :P). In other words, unless otherwise noted, they're not arrangements or "ReMixes" of existing songs by other composers.
So, here's the deal with this page. I'm going to switch up the songs in the myspace player every week or so. Much of it will be General MIDI stuff, so I hope people don't mind the sound quality too much.
If you like what you hear, keep checking back here for different stuff!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/10/2006
Influences: Koji Kondo

Dave Wise

Graeme Norgate

Yasunori Mitsuda

Nobuo Uematsu

Tommy Tallarico

...and many other classic game composers!

Sounds Like: video game music.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Moving to Wisconsin soon...

In two weeks, to be exact.  I'm moving there to be with my fiance (first and second profiles in my top 16).  And yes, I've already heard all the jokes about becoming an American.  They'...
Posted by Shannon Mason (Pongball) on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:15:00 PST