Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician, video game composer/sound designer and electric violinist. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktro's for the Fairlight group among others.

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  • Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician, video game composer/sound designer and electric violinist. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktro's for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, and also made a number of original compositions for many formats from the Nintendo Entertainment System through to the PlayStation and PC. After leaving the Amiga demo scene in 1993, he has worked for the computer game developers - Mindscape Group, 3D Realms, Bullfrog Productions, Electronic Arts, Climax Group, Visual Science and is currently working for Codemasters. His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2,,, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he also has sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nomiated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World - which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for 'best sound in a video game'. As a semi professional electric violinist, Mark performs live under the pseudonym madfiddler. He has played, amongst others, the folk punk band Tricks Upon Travellers (1994-2000), K-Passa (2000-2001) - (2008-present), Blue Horses (2002-2003), 4-4-2 (2004), Laura Kenny (2006), Silver Dogs (2006-2007), and has worked as a session musician for bands such as Pepe DeluxĂ©, The Divine Comedy, C64 Audio. com, and Massive Attack. He is currently playing with Birmingham based folk punk band 'Bleeding Hearts', electric ceilidh band 'Moondance', the DJ led improvising crew 'DiscQuartet', Bristol based 'K-Passa', and the Commodore 64 rock covers band 'SID80s'. Mark is also the demonstrator for the electric violin manufacturer 'Bridge Violins', and is also the owner/administrator of the 'Fiddle and Alternative Strings Forum'. Mark is currently based near Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
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  • Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician, video game composer/sound designer and electric violinist. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktro's for the Fairlight group among others.
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  • Mark Knight (musician)
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