Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the cancelled game Jazz Jackrabbit 3D. He worked in several MOD music groups over his composing years in the late 90's, including the Kosmic Free Music Foundation. During that time he also composed for several musicdisks such as Return to Stage 9. Brandon has built several audio departments, starting with Ion Storm Austin in mid 2000. This was followed with an audio director position at Midway Home Entertainment in San Diego until 2007 when he started the audio department at Obsidian Entertainment.[1] Since February 2009 he has been working at Heatwave Interactive. Past nicknames During his tracker career, Alex has used several nicknames:[2] 1995: first tracks released under the name "Chromatic Dragon" end of 1995: name changed to "Siren" middle of 1996, during KFMF membership: name temporary changed to "Sandman" end of 1996: name changed back to "Siren" Note that there were several (two or three) tracker musicians around the world, who have used the nickname "Sandman" independently of Alex.