Marten Joustra

Marten Joustra is a British composer and sound designer who worked on the Traveller's Tales games that were published by Psygnosis. He collaborated his work with Andy Blythe. The two of them have composed music for over 1500 titles for television, film, video games, radio, and more. Marten and Andy have started Swallow Studios where they continue composing music. Marten is a classic-trained musician who likes to play jazz music and has been in several bands.

Audio Development

Toy Story

''Unfortunately I can’t remember loads, but it will have definitely have been done on Cubase and probably a Soundscape HD recording system or Fostex D80 hard Disk recorders. We used Akai S1000’s / S3000’s, aKorg M1 and Proteus’s. A lot of the tracks had real session players on - brass and vocals etc. The Randy Newman track for "You've Got A Friend In Me" we did was all by ear. I do remember the whole job being a lot of fun - and the Studio being boiling on the days towards the end of the job - to the point where we had to keep shutting down the equipment to let it cool off !! I do remember that we had 4 weeks to the whole job so not having a day off the whole time. We would sketch out a track late evening, flesh it out next morning, get the session players in during the afternoon and mix it early evening - then have some takeaway food and then sketch out a track to do next day, finishing about midnight''.