Zircon, a passionate sound scientist.

Andrew Aversa

Twitter: @Zirconst

Andrew Aversa, known as Zircon is a composer, producer, sound designer and video game developer from the city of Baltimore, United States. His passion for music has led him to a unique style when making each composition.

Since 2004, he has generated projects ranging from the creation of sound in classical instrumental music to the electronic creation of a style that predominates in his albums: the style he has described as "organic-electronic". From his album "Identity Sequence" made in 2014, there are the three most popular songs on his Spotify profile: "Colossus" with more than 1,400,000 views, followed by "Neurobazaar" with more than 500 thousand views and "The End" with more than 600 thousand views.

Identity Sequence Album

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Recently, in July 2018, the Tangledeep video game was released on Steam, which he developed. For this video game, Zircon also developed all the musical ambience with the collaboration of other artists.

Andrew Aversa in addition to his musical achievements devotes his spare time to helping aspiring musicians and students, giving lectures at University of Pennsylvania, University of Arts, Towson University and in Drexel (his alma mater).

Tangeldeep Soundtrack Art

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Andrew's musical influences for the development of his music range from electronic artists such as BT, Prodigy, Hybrid and Pendulum to film composers such as James Newton-Howard, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, and others. Andrew Aversa is a true sound scientist. He is the responsible producer and co-founder of Impact Soundworks, a sound design and sample book company with a large number of users around the world, including some of the industry's well-known video game, television and film composers. If Andrew is not designing a new collection of critically acclaimed instruments for this company, he may find himself pre-configuring synthesizer settings that are also widely used.