Kyle Ward
Noted Skills
⦿ song arrangement⦿ music production
⦿ music/vocal recording
⦿ singing/performance
⦿ song writing
Kyle Ward is a producer, songwriter and game developer from Vancouver, Washington, USA. Kyle is best known for his music in rhythm video games such as In The Groove and Pump It Up Pro.
Kyle is part of the Bubblegum duo OSCILLATOR X along with John Mendenhall. Kyle and John also work together to produce COCONUT, a traditionally styled bubblegum dance act who is best known for her 2007 single "Ladybug".
Brief Biography
Kyle Ward's love for music was obvious since childhood, and at the age of five he began to demonstrate his natural talents at piano. He soon integrated his love for technology through keyboards, computers, and other forms of electronic instruments.
Kyle was the main music composer and sound producer of RoXoR Games' dance arcade series, In The Groove. In The Groove, as well its its sequel In The Groove 2, feature music from several of Kyle's aliases, including KaW, Inspector K, Smiley, Banzai, KBit, and Symphonius.
Kyle is essentially Roxor Games' analogous counterpart to Konami's Naoki Maeda, a composer who produces songs for use the Bemani line of rhythm games. Both produced a significant proportion of the songs for their respective games, and both do so under a variety of pseudonyms which change depending on the style of the music.
In 2006, Kyle announced that he has moved on from RoXoR to Andamiro, where he has participated in the development of Pump It Up Pro. Currently he is involved in the development of the new dance game iDance.
Hobbies / Interests
Below is a list of some of Kyle Ward's hobbies and interests, taken from his Facebook and MySpace pages.
Activities: Swimming, Diving, Racquetball, Spelunking, Zip-lining, Golf, ATV'ing, Surfing, Chess, Electronics
Favourite music: Anything related to Dance, Techno or European Pop music.
Favourite TV shows: Judge Judy, Weakest Link, Discovery Channel, Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Xfiles, Friends, Frasier, Weeds, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie
Favourite movies: Stargate, Terminator 2, (Arnold Schwarzenegger & anything action based), (SCI-FI), Back to the Future, Flight Of The Navigator, Office Space, American Beauty, Election, Rat Race, Little Miss Sunshine, Groundhog Day
Favourite bubblegum dance groups: Aqua, Miss Papaya, Bambee, Ni-Ni, Crispy, Machoman, Babe, Tiggy
