Original Music for Screen and Contemporary Storytelling

Ben MacDougall is a composer for film, television, video games, and global media. He wrote the award-winning soundtrack for the PlayStation 5 launch title Godfall, and has composed original music for Honor of Kings, the world’s most-played mobile game, Nintendo’s Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, and other major franchises. His bespoke work spans games, trailers, and AAA movie studio projects, with music featured across prime-time television and high-profile broadcast events.

Alongside commissioned scoring, Ben’s music licensing catalog has achieved sustained global reach, with tracks in constant rotation across broadcast television, streaming platforms, trailers, and digital media. His composition and production work has also established a growing presence in professional sports branding and broadcast, positioning him as a rising voice in the modern sports music landscape.

Ben began his musical life in symphony orchestras, immersed in classical repertoire, a foundation that continues to shape his writing. That background supports both ends of his work: large-scale orchestral and hybrid scoring for cinematic and trailer contexts, and intimate, traditional underscore built around acoustic instruments, pacing, and human storytelling.

A graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, Ben is based in Los Angeles, California.

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  • BBC | Mythical Creatures

    My soundtrack for the BBC's Mythical Creatures series is available on all major streaming platforms.

    This show is a ten-part series, where fantasy writer Rhianna Pratchett takes us across the enchanted world of the British Isles, discovering the magic and mythical creatures that lurk in all the corners of the land.

    ​The show is amazing, and the music was a lot of fun to write as well - blending fantastical, epic orchestral elements with magic, danger ...and just the right amount of sparkle.

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  • In Search of Space & Sleep

    In Search of Space and Sleep  is out now on all major streaming platforms.

    This album is a personal, dreamy exploration of mindfulness and focus - which resulted in 12 tracks of "deep cinematic" music that's perfect for any moment that you want to take back for yourself.

    It merges the acoustic and the electronic, to form vast soundscapes that swirl, float and shimmer in equal measure - never standing still but allowing you to focus on what truly matters. You.

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  • Where Dreams Collide

    Where Dreams Collide is out now on all major Streaming Platforms

    “Where Dreams Collide" presents a nuanced exploration of the human subconscious and a tribute to the complex science of sleep, through the metaphor of a journey to the deepest parts of the ocean; an alien landscape where calm and stillness reign supreme, and there is space for introspection, inner peace and self-reflection.

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  • GODFALL | The Aperion Symphony

    The Aperion Symphony is out today on the Decca record label across all major streaming platforms.

    This third original soundtrack release for Godfall distills the game’s score into a traditional symphonic form. Each movement traces a journey through one of Aperion’s realms - Earth, Water, Air, and Fire - using long-form orchestral writing to present the score’s themes in their purest and most expansive form.

    From soaring cinematic highs to darker, more brooding moments, the symphony offers the most sweeping and emotionally complete musical experience from Godfall to date.

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  • VOYAGER | Cinematic Post Rock

    I'm really happy to share the release of an album of cinematic post rock I wrote with the inimitable, multiplatinum producer Matt Lange. 

    Available to license from the trailer music label Liquid Cinema - and streaming wherever you get your music. ​Apple Music and Spotify

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  • GODFALL | Fire & Darkness Soundtrack VINYL

    The soundtrack for GODFALL: Fire & Darkness is out on Decca Records.

    Available to stream HERE, and on beautiful purple vinyl too.

    Vinyl Edition

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