Mark Benis

AiliA is out! 🪞

So grateful to Jingyu Sui, Andy Lin, Isaac Pérez Riera and Zac Zinger for their incredible musicianship on display in this soundtrack.

AiliA is available on Steam and you can find the soundtrack on your usual suspects + Bandcamp! Links in bio 🪞

Celebrating Thanksgiving the English way 🇺🇸🫡

Very excited to be part of a panel at AdventureX with @jdwasabi.bsky.social, @thomasregin.bsky.social and @paulzmmermann.bsky.social moderated by Seoirse Dunbar! We’ll be talking game audio for adventure games, happening today 4:15pm if you’re around #AdvX25

Super excited to share that @clarkaboud.bsky.social and I are writing music for Wishfarers 💫 Easy to be inspired by what @squiddershins.bsky.social is making and what a perfect game for us to join forces on! Lots more synths/8-bit + guitar on the way

Had such a great time chatting with Josh! Covered so many fun topics that we got to really dig into, keep an eye out for part 2

New haul of Jeff comics! He always has the best expressions 😋😱😬

If you're a fan of adventure games Rosewater should def be on your list! Had the pleasure writing my own take on a Western soundtrack and the world-building here is some of the finest out there

all good thanks for sharing it!!

hi would love to hear how the show went! any chance you have a link to it?

oh you’ve gotta check it out! even just to hear all his voice acting, it’s soooo good

this is me today

really taken by the response to my Jeff music, appreciate all the wholesome comments!

Very easy to be inspired when something hits you somewhere deep :]

We'll get everyone bit by the Jeff bug soon enough! Excited to read his next adventures 🦈

YouTube video by Mark Benis I wrote a theme song for Jeff the Land Shark

Because of the 3 min limit here I can't have the whole video in one go, so check out the entire thing on YT (bonus cat pics there!)

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I hear so much potential with his main theme and unique C major + F# major harmony so this is just one example of what could be done with it!

And in case you didn't catch my main theme for Jeff 🦈⬇️

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With Jeff being surprised to see the cat I had his "walking" theme interrupted by the cat's theme. And with the appearance of the kittens I gave each one a little gesture on solo strings 🐈🐈🐈

Finally it ends with Jeff's main theme over cat theme's harmony and an "It's Jeff!" slide down on brass

I tried to really bring out some moments like giving the cat their own theme when they appear and digging into Jeff's MRRRRRR!!!!

But I also took some creative liberties like giving Jeff a little tummy rumble in the beginning

As part of writing an original theme song for Jeff the Land Shark, I also wrote some music for my favorite Jeff comic:

Jeff the Magnanimous!

(music ideas w/ comic panels below)

thanks! :]

Hi, sure thing feel free to share it with your audience! very nice of you to think of including it and appreciate the kind words :]

Thank you! Seeing so many people call him that is actually what inspired the lyrics, nobody messes with our bestest boy

I almost spit out my food when I saw your name — thank YOU Kelly!! Nothing has got me quite into comics like Jeff has and that’s a testament to you, Daniele and Gurihiru. They’re so lovely and wholesome. Glad you liked the music, really means so much for you to say that

hey thanks so much!! it started off as a little idea and then it just snowballed into getting all the live musicians haha was good fun

It's a dream of mine to write some official music for Jeff so just putting this out into the world :] Thanks for listening!

YouTube video by Mark Benis I wrote a theme song for Jeff the Land Shark

So many people involved to make this happen and I'm grateful to each and every one of them. Shelby Harvey on lead vocals, the FAME'S orchestra, my friend Angel Mannion for organizing the choir

Check out the vid on YouTube for a complete list of credits: youtu.be/xR_WzRqYPsg

I wrote a theme song for Jeff the Land Shark 🦈

This is what happens when a musician plays a bit too much Jeff in Marvel Rivals

Across the Frontier was one of my favorite pieces to write for Rosewater by @grundislav.games, here notated out!

Kept most of the parts pretty simple to let everything breathe + play off each other, and Zac Zinger absolutely ran with it to make that shakuhachi part sound SO smooth.

Absolute dream to get to record with the FAMES orchestra! Little sneak peek of something I've been working on, coming soon... 🦈

Always a blessing to have live musicians on my music. Def won't get old with players like these! Shoutout to the singers:

Jasper Sussman, Lauren Carter, Katie Hickey, Julia Cordani, Sarah-Nicole Carter, Evangelina Woo, Rich Dawes, Sam Buse, John Yokoyama, Martin Green, Paul Young Jr., Michael Sokol

Little snippet from our choir session yesterday! Amazing to be reunited with Angel Mannion for some good ole recording -- we did Down Among the Dead Men together from Lamplight City back in the day with engineer Chris Hobson and some singers even returning (!)

Always a blessing to have live musicians on my music. Def won't get old with players like these! Shoutout to the singers:

Jasper Sussman, Lauren Carter, Katie Hickey, Julia Cordani, Sarah-Nicole Carter, Evangelina Woo, Rich Dawes, Sam Buse, John Yokoyama, Martin Green, Paul Young Jr., Michael Sokol