Mike Morasky

Mike Morasky is an American composer, animator/visual effects artist, director and programmer. He is best known for his work at Valve composing the scores for "Team Fortress 2", the "Left 4 Dead" series, "Portal 2", ' and '. He is also known for his visual effects work on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" trilogies as well as founding the underground art bands Steel Pole Bath Tub, Milk Cult and DUH.
Biography.
For Valve, Morasky composed the music for "Team Fortress 2", "Portal" (with Kelly Bailey), "Left 4 Dead", "Left 4 Dead 2" (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders"), "Portal 2", ', and '.
He also worked as a senior visual effects artist and technical director on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" film trilogies.
Morasky was part of the now-defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub, which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.
On Valve's official website, his function was described as follows: "Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve."