Tom Salta

Tom Salta
Born	Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Genres	Film, television, advertising and most notably video games
Occupation(s)	Recording artist and soundtrack composer
Website	tomsalta.com

Tom Salta, from Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, is a recording artist and soundtrack composer. He has composed soundtracks for many popular video game titles, including Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2, Cold Fear, Red Steel and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Salta's score for Red Steel received an award for "Best Original Score" in IGN's Best of 2006 awards. Salta works in multimedia including film, television, advertising and most notably video games.

Atlas Plug

Tom Salta is also the man behind the Atlas Plug moniker, and released his first album, 2 Days or Die, in February 2005.

Notable works

Prince Of Persia The Forgotten Sands

To fully immerse players in the Prince's new adventure, Salta composed and produced a score that captures the essence and spirit of the original Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time and supports the new story and gameplay of Prince Of Persia The Forgotten Sands with a contemporary world music aesthetic. The score features performances recorded with percussionist Bashiri Johnson, vocals by world music singer Azam Ali and vocals by international recording artist Judith Bérard, as well as world music and middle-eastern instrumentation such as doubek, kora, khangira, bowhammer cymbalom, lakota slide, walimba, ney, duduk and custom-made instruments.

Red Steel 2

For Red Steel 2, Ubisoft’s new first-person action title developed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii and designed with full Wii MotionPlus integration, Salta composed a 'Wild West' guitar-driven score blended with Asian music influences. He enlisted the guitar performances of studio musician Steve Ouimette and recorded various instrumentalists for Chinese percussion, Shakuhachi, Fue, Pipa, harmonica and violin. Salta's contemporary and traditional Japanese musical score for the original Red Steel, Ubisoft’s exclusive first-person action title for the Nintendo Wii, won IGN's Wii Award for Best Original Score.

Tom Clancy franchise

The anthemic military-themed orchestral scores for Tom Clancy's Graw 1&2 fuse electronic sounds into the score to capture the hi-tech aesthetic of the games for which he was nominated for “Best Video Game Score” at the MTV Video Music Awards. To enhance the exhilarating experience of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 1&2, the air-combat game series set in the world-renowned Tom Clancy video game universe, Salta composed the adrenalized and emotionally-charged live orchestral / electronic hybrid scores to emphasize the games’ cutting-edge technology, devastating firepower and intense dogfights. Salta’s anthemic orchestral scores for the Tom Clancy franchise captured the attention of the US Marines and subsequently he was assigned to create the music for the Marine Corps' latest recruitment commercial entitled "America's Few." Most recently Salta composed the live-action trailer for Tom Clancy’S Ghost Recon Future Soldier and the atmospheric, tension gripping military score for Ubisoft's innovative WWII real-time strategy game R.U.S.E.

Discography

Salta has garnered widespread acclaim for his distinctive, produced scores featured in popular franchises such as R.U.S.E., Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Wii, Red Steel 1&2, Tom clancy's Ghost recon advanced warfighter 1&2 and Tom clancy's H.A.W.X 1&2. Recording under the artist name “Atlas Plug”, tracks from his album 2 Days Or Die grace many television shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, NBC as well as national commercials. His Atlas Plug music can also be heard in the soundtracks to games such as Crackdown, The fast and the furious: Tokyo drift and Project Gotham racing 3. Salta's orchestral music for Hollywood movie trailers and promos includes Toy story 3, Harry Potter, Spider-man, Astro boy, and Coraline. Prior to his composing career, Salta toured with and worked on releases by a diverse array of artists such as Peter Gabriel, Junior Vasquez, Everything But The Girl, Deep Forest, Mary J. Blige and Sinead O’Connor.

Video games

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary	Microsoft Studios
R.U.S.E.	Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's: HAWX 2	Ubisoft
The Agency	Sony Online Entertainment
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Wii, PSP, DS)	Ubisoft
Red Steel 2	Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's: HAWX	Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigher 1 & 2	Ubisoft/Red Storm
Crackdown	Microsoft
Red Steel	Ubisoft/Nintendo
Full Auto 2: Battlelines	Sega
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Namco
Kim Possible	A2M
Cold Fear	Ubisoft
Project Gotham Racing 3	Microsoft
Still Life	Microids
Need for Speed Underground 2	EA
MLB 2006	Sony
Theme to Ghost Recon 2 (co-writer)	UbiSoft
Sprung (for Nintendo DS)	UbiSoft
Get on Da Mic	Eidos/A2M
Rallisport Challenge 2	Microsoft
Street Racing Syndicate	Namco
Movie Studio Party	Ubisoft

TV and film

• Toy Story 3 (Web Trailer) Disney Pixar
• Astro Boy (Film Trailer) Summit Entertainment
• Coraline (Film Trailer) Focus Features
• Traitor (Film Trailer) Overture Films
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Film Trailer) Warner Bros.
• DOA (Film Trailer) Constantin Film
• The DaVinci Code - Featurette: Making of and Promos Sony
• The Last Mimzy (Film Trailer) New Line Cinema
• Arthur and the Invisibles (TV & Movie Trailers) Weinstein Co.
• 2006 Winter Olympics NBC
• Derailed (Movie Trailer) Miramax
• Making of Spiderman 2 HBO
• Latin Access NBC
• Infinity Q45 National TV/Radio Commercial
• GMC National TV/Radio Commercial
• CFDA Awards (Committee of the Fashion Designers of America) CFDA Awards Show Theme - Televised
• 2006 Winter Olympics
• Joan of Arcadia
• Third Watch
• Punk'd
• Latin Access
• 1-800-Missing (Known as Missing in season 2)
• Shrediquette
• Making of Anaconda 2 Cinemax
• All Music Branding for KTLA The WB Television Network affiliate
• Joan of Arkadia CBS
• Open Water Trailer (TV) Lion's Gate
• Third Watch NBC
• Shrediquette Indie
• US Open Commercials ESPN
• Volvo S40 World-Wide TV Commercial
• Bertolli National Commercial Bertolli
• Johnny Zero Warner Brothers
• America's Next Top Model UPN
• Punk'd MTV
• Vertical Zoo 2004 Indie
• 1-800 Missing Lifetime
• The Discovery Channel Wild Discovery Main Theme

Records and artists

• Atlas Plug (Solo Album) "2 Days or Die"
• Cher Believe - "The Power"
• Whitney Houston Whitney: the Greatest Hits - "How Will I Know"
• Peter Gabriel While the Earth Sleeps
• Kathy Troccoli Love Has a Name
• Original Soundtrack - Malcom in the Middle Flak's - "Round Window"
• Deborah Gibson Deborah
• Moonchild
• Primer 55 Introduction to Mayhem
• Tommy Page Ten Till Midnight
• QED Mobius
• Philippe Saisse Halfway Till Dawn
• Various Artists WCW (World Championship Wrestling) "Mayhem - the Music"
• Flak Round Window
• Christian Davis Angel (Remix)
• 38th Parallel Turn The Tides
• Dru Hill Tell Me
• Junior Vasquez I am Thin and Gorgeous
• Julio Iglesias Jr. One More Chance
• Point of Grace Rarities and Remixes - "Faith Hope and Love"
• Original Soundtrack Welcome to Woop Woop
• Various Artists Let's Roll: Together in Unity Faith and Love
• Sinead O'Connor
• Everything But The Girl Missing (Remix)
• Sascha If You Believe (Remix)
• Meja How Crazy are You (Remix)
• Wes Awa Awa
• Kristine W. Feel What You Want (Remix)
• Emer Kenny Golden Brown (Remix)
• Ceredwen The Gates of Annwn (Remix)
• Gary Barlow Love Won't Wait (Remix)
• QED "Hardly a Day", "So It Is", "Unaware", "Epilogue (Hardly a Day Part 1)"
• David Charvet Leap of Faith - "It's Alright"
• Arthur Baker Breakin'
• 38th Parallel Turn The Tides - "Clouded", "Who am I", "You are My God", "Wither"
• Various Artists Let's Roll: Together in Unity, Faith and Love - "I Believe"

External links

• Official website
• Tom Salta interview with IGN
• Atlas Plug official website