Biography
(Hebrew character reading: אהרון פריד)
Vell, Aaron's just zis guy, you know?
Most of Aaron’s music has been released for free: https://aaronfreed.github.io/aaronfreed/discography.html
Additionally, the following releases are available as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Interational 4.0 (which means you can distribute and modify it as you see fit as long as you do not profit from doing so and make certain to distribute all attached documentation along with the music):
Compositions 1993-1997:
FLAC (585 kbps, 273 MB)
Ogg Vorbis (q8.0, 221 kbps, 103 MB)
AAC/MP4/.m4a (q0.65, 217 kbps, 102 MB)
MP3 (V0, 223 kbps, 104 MB)
Marathon Chronicles:
FLAC (915 kbps, 19.7 MB)
Ogg Vorbis (q8.0, 261 kbps, 5.65 MB)
AAC/MP4/.m4a (q0.65, 232 kbps, 5.06 MB)
MP3 (V0, 277 kbps, 6.01 MB)
Marathon Remixes:
FLAC (766 kbps, 216 MB)
Ogg Vorbis (q8.0, 225 kbps, 63.7 MB)
AAC/MP4/.m4a (q0.65, 231 kbps, 66.0 MB)
MP3 (V0, 255 kbps, 72.2 MB)
Demos 2014 (may also be previewed at the artist's soundcloud):
FLAC (476 kbps, 178 MB)
Ogg Vorbis (q8.0, 205 kbps, 77.3 MB)
AAC/MP4/.m4a (q0.65, 213 kbps, 80.7 MB)
MP3 (V0, 247 kbps, 93.0 MB)
The compositions on the album (Compositions 1993-1997), as suggested by the title, were all written a long time ago; it was all sequenced with a Yamaha CBX-T3 synthesizer. As of September 18, 2012, the versions uploaded to Dropbox uploaded reflect the third revision since the initial master was made; the Last.fm versions are an older, second revision.
The Marathon Remixes are rearranged compositions of Alexander Seropian from the game of the same name. They are Aaron’s first remixes of Marathon’s soundtrack, but not his last.
Two short remixes of a track from Compositions 1993-1997 have also been released under Marathon Chronicles, which also serves as the name of a scenario he began building for the aforementioned game series which may or may not ever be finished.
Demos 2014 is a collection of primitive piano performances, some of which are covers of other artists' material, some of which are original compositions, and quite a lot of which are improvisations. They are not heavily edited and should not be considered finished products; one of them in particular features some fairly obvious mistakes, although overall they should still be enjoyable to listen to.
See You Starside: The Marathon Soundtrack Reimagined, released in February 2023, is a much more radical reworking of Marathon’s soundtrack by way of ’70s progressive rock, ’80s pop production, and ’90s Japanese video game arrangement albums. Where Marathon’s OST is 40 minutes long, See You Starside is 78, owing in large part to new segments Aaron wrote specifically for the album.
Aaron was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1983, but has resided in Florida since he was five.
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