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Bowen makes money composing music for games, a small business he got off the ground after college at the University of Sussex, near Brighton. He’d studied classical composition, but his hobbies never formally crossed with his schooling. “I was always thinking about video games in the back of my head,” he says. Bo en arose naturally—an interest in wanting to compress his soundtrack work down into more digestible forms. Bowen released his debut album titled Pale Machine in 2013. In Feburary 2014, he re-released Pale Machine as an “expansion pack” that included mini games for every song on the album (at least one of which, a surreal morning time adventure by a designer named Ben Esposito, is delightful), as well as a physical release: a pink felt case, “hand-sewn, really nicely, by my girlfriend,” Bowen says. Over the course of the following years he wrote three singles, "By the Phone", "sometimes" and "love in a song". In 2023, Bowen released a follow up to his debut entitled Pale Machine 2 which contained re-imaginings of songs off his Pale Machine record as well as original songs featuring a variety of other artists. Also, as a video game composer, Bowen has written songs for many games such as Super Ubie Land, Winnose, Lovely Planet, Pikuniku and so on. Bowen composed several songs for indie game OMORI, one of the them was a pitched-up (and shortened in-game) version of "My Time", a song which was initially included in his debut album. In addition, he produced the soundtrack for Netflix's Poinpy, a free mobile game released in 2022.