Career
Alongside, Otterlei has created music and sound effects for theatre, short films, video games, roleplaying games and art installations. His music appears on various albums. In the nineties Alex Otterlei pioneered the art of writing soundtracks for roleplaying games, resulting in popular rpg-soundtracks such as “Battlethemes”, “Arthur” and “Where Evil Lurks”.
Between 2003 and 2010 Alex Otterlei scored music and/or created sound effects for various videogames including the award-winning series Monkey Tales.
Starting from 2009 Otterlei also began to write concert music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles. Although considered mainly autodidact, Otterlei was later on mentored by Hans Lamal and prominent composer Luc van Hove.
2010: “Flames of Vengeance” for Personal Computer and Xbox 360, additional music & sound design
2007: “Fairytale Fights”(demo): ambient & sound effects
2006: “Aqua Vita” for Sony PS3: sound effects
2006: "Mesmerize_Distort" for Sony PS3: ambient and sound effects
2006: "Xyanide Resurrection" for Sony PSP & PS2: ambient & sound effects + music for Animated Comic-bonus
2003: "Xyanide" for Xbox: music score.