Aleksi Eeben

Aleksi Eeben is a composer and programmer. He worked for Nokia between 2002 and 2015 (which had become Microsoft Mobile at that point) as a sound designer, creating many ringtones, alerts and UI sounds. Other duties included mixing and mastering, project management, and creating sound banks.

Outside of Nokia, he is a prolific demoscener (best known under the Heatbeat alias), and has created many tech demos and chiptune-related tools. He has also composed for several video games such as Elfmania and Project S-11.

Work at Nokia
Eeben joined Nokia in November 2002 as a Principal Sound Designer, alongside Hannu af Ursin and Henry Daw, as Nokia were looking for new composers to work on polyphonic ringtones. During his early years at the company he wrote several polyphonic ringtones and alerts, and created all three of the MobileBAE sound banks Nokia utilized on their phones from 2004 to 2013; these were mostly created with samples of real instruments and custom synth patches. Other duties at Nokia included mastering, mixing and managing outsourced projects.

Although his compositions for Nokia were usually different in nature to his demoscene and game work, which often feature an unconventional jazzy electronic style, he created a chiptune ringtone named Rhodium using his Commodore 64 SID tracker, John Player. This was exclusive to the Nokia 7373 Special Edition.

One of the first phones he was responsible for producing the sound set for was the Nokia 9500 Communicator in 2004. He was also largely responsible for producing the sound sets of Eseries phones, and later the Lumia phones. His later work features fairly high production values, as he favored the use of real instruments and recordings rather than using library SFX, which was done during his earlier years at Nokia. Examples including creating a real music box version of the Silver ringtone, and producing recordings of wind chimes, cats and biting fruit. Shortly before Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia, he produced three Windows Phone apps: Nokia Tones consisting of 1000 ringtones, Nokia Alerts consisting of 170 alerts, and Nokia Buzzer consisting of 250 monophonic ringtones.

Credits
This is a list of known Nokia tracks Eeben has worked on.

Clock alerts

 * Clock 1 (2010) — Music & Arrangement

Calendar and message alerts

 * Ball — Music & Arrangement
 * Coco — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Diamond — Music & Arrangement
 * Early — Music & Arrangement
 * Hazel — Music & Arrangement
 * Music Box — Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Mystery — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Pear — Recording
 * Pouch — Music & Arrangement
 * Rain — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Sauna — Recording

Music tracks

 * Wonder — Music & Arrangement