Stephen Baysted works professionally as a media composer in the games, film and television industries. As Composer and Audio Director, he is listed amongst the key personnel for Slightly Mad Studios Ltd. an International games development studio and has composed music scores and designed sound for a string of award-winning computer games including the UK no.1 game Project CARS and Project CARS 2; the hybrid score for Electronic Arts' game: Shift 2: Unleashed, Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed: Shift, Atari’s Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends and Robert Kirkman’s: The Walking Dead: Assault. Recent film scores include Phil Grabsky's I, Claude Monet, Renoir: Revered and Reviled, and The Impressionists: and the man who made them; Tim Pope's Brandy and Pep; and the psychological drama Strange Factories. For television Baysted has composed the music to NOVA's Killer Floods, Killer Volcanoes and Killer Hurricanes; the series King Tut's Treasures for Blink Films; the series for BBC Tom Kerridge: Lose Weight for Good, three series of Blink Films' documentary seriesAncient Mysteries commissioned by Channel 5, Smithsonian and SBS; Blink Film's "Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts" for Channel 4 and PBS. Baysted has also composed the music for cinema, TV and radio adverts, including high-profile campaigns for Budweiser, McDonald's, Samsung and Pizza Hut and he writes for many leading music libraries, including Audio Network. Baysted’s work has been nominated for two Motion Picture Sound EditorsGolden Reel Awards, three Jerry Goldsmith Awards and two Game Audio Network Guild Awards, two Golden Joystick Awards and in February 2016 won Best Original Score for a short film for his music in Submerged from the WildSound festival. Baysted is represented and published by Baysted was recently interviewed by Computer Music about his work in the games industry. and Designing Sound about his work on Project CARS. Baysted is Professor of Film, TV and Games Composition at the He is also Editor in Chief of the Credits Include:
Baysted gained BA and MMus degrees from the University of Southampton, is listed in their successful alumni, and was a visiting research student in the Departments of Music and Philosophy at the Université de Rouen in France. Baysted was awarded a PhD in 2002 from Dartington College of Arts for a thesis entitled: From le cri de la nature to Pygmalion: a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera. Before joining the University of Chichester in 2003, he was Head of Opera Studies at Rose Bruford College in Kent and worked with many of the leading opera companies and opera practitioners in the UK. Baysted was recently appointed Professor of Film, TV and Games Composition at the University of Chichester.
