Ben Dahl’s creative life has always been shaped by music, sound exploration, and technical craftsmanship. Raised in a musical household, with a luthier stepfather and a Montessori music teacher mother, he was introduced early to both the expressive and physical qualities of sound.

That curiosity led him to train and work as a piano tuning technician, where he developed a critical ear for tuning, temperament, timbre, resonance, and voicing. The experience deepened his understanding of how sound is built, shaped, and perceived, and continues to influence both his composition and sound design work.

Ben’s career has grown around those two disciplines in equal measure. As a composer, he creates adaptive and expressive music that supports narrative, emotion, and gameplay. As a sound designer, he builds immersive sonic worlds through detailed effects, dynamic ambience, spatial audio, and technical implementation. Across both, he explores alternate temperaments, microtonal relationships, texture, and spatial movement.

His creative path has always leaned toward the unconventional. As a founding member of several experimental rock bands, he worked as a keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and sound architect, using effects, layering, and sound manipulation to shape each project’s identity. That same approach later carried into film, television, and games, where his work has spanned composition, sound effects, ambience, interactive music, cinematics, mixing, and implementation.

Ben earned a degree in Music Composition for Film, Television, and Games from Berklee College of Music after completing an Associate of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on production and composition.

After working as a Senior Sound Designer and Composer at Jackalyptic Games on an unannounced Warhammer project developed in collaboration with Games Workshop, Ben joined Naughty Dog as a Sound Designer on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. His work continues to explore the space where music, sound design, technology, and storytelling meet.