Releasing many successful works in the TV / Advertising, Game Audio, and Music worlds over the past decade, Joel Ford has proven himself to be a forward thinking, flexible, and powerful sound designer.
Joel Ford first exploded onto Brooklyn's electronic music scene as the formidable leftfield synth-duo Games, and later as Ford & Lopatin. While maintaining projects as an artist, Joel has spent the past decade working as a producer, mixer, engineer and composer for such projects as Oneohtrix Point Never, How To Dress Well, Jacques Greene, Autre Ne Veut, Com Truise, Cyril Hahn, Alex Cameron, North Americans, Kirin J Callinan, Heathered Pearls, Young Ejecta, and Yes/And.
In recognition of his outstanding mixing work on Teen Daze's "Interiors" LP, Joel was honored with a 2023 Juno Award for Best Electronic Music Album.
In recent years, Joel has solidified his position as a premier game audio designer. Notably, he mixed and mastered music for the critically acclaimed Nintendo game, "Legend of Zelda: Cadence of Hyrule," which incorporates gameplay centered around it’s music. This release has been hailed as "the best Legend of Zelda offshoot ever made" by Polygon.
Joel has mixed and mastered other various game audio soundtracks, including "Return of the Obra Dinn", "Hollow Knight," in addition to several titles for Brace Yourself Games.
In early 2023 Joel became a full time Sound Designer for Branch, a game dev studio based in Seattle, WA, where he continues to develop and integrate sounds for their new game, “Castaways.”
Joel works out of his studio in the Greater New York City Area.