Marc Canham is a British composer of music for film and video games. In 2008, he scored Far Cry 2, and in 2020, he composed the film score to I Care A Lot, for which he received an ASCAP award. Canham has collaborated with several artists including Iggy Pop, Nathan Johnson, Philip Glass, Baaba Maal, Bryan Mantia, and Paul Hartnoll.
On creating music, Canham stated that he wanted to deliver emotion through a "sound palette" of combinations of sounds, textures, and ensembles of instruments, then letting loose with melodies and motifs. For I Care A Lot, Canham claims to have created the score from the script, as opposed to the film.
Nimrod Productions Along with Richard Aitken and others, Canham founded Nimrod Productions Limited in 2000, a music production company in Oxfordshire, UK. Nimrod has provided orchestral soundtracks for The Getaway, Black Monday, Gran Turismo 4 and Driver 2, 3 and Driver: San Francisco. It was dissolved in 2019 and succeeded by Nimrod Sound as Rich Aitken’s mix company.
Nimrod Studio Orchestra Canham founded the Nimrod Studio Orchestra (NSO) in 2002, a commercial session orchestra which has been behind game scores including 24: The Game, Killzone 2, and Act of War: Direct Action.
Works Film scores Year Title2009The Disappearance of Alice Creed (with NSO) 2012When the Lights Went Out 2015Burn Burn Burn 2015Final Girl 2019Close 2020I Care a Lot 2021Barbarians 2022The Lost Girls
Games Year Title 2002Stuntman (video game) 2002Taz: Wanted 2004Driver 3 2005Act of War: Direct Action (Collaboration with Jonathan Williams and NSO) 200624: The Game (With NSO and Nimrod Productions) 2006Reservoir Dogs (video game) 2006Driver: Parallel Lines 2007Driver 76 (with Andy Gannon and Ed Scroggie) 2008Far Cry 22009Battlefield Heroes 2009Killzone 2 (With NSO) 2010Split/Second 2010Chime (as music producer / integrator) 2011Driver: San Francisco 2012The Secret World 2014Infamous First Light 2014Infamous Second Son
Installations The Danger Tree, Titanic Museum, Belfast.
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