Daniel Rosenfeld (born 1989), known professionally as C418 (pronounced "see four eighteen"),[4][5] is a German musician, producer and sound engineer.
Known for his minimalistic ambient work, he rose to fame as the former composer and sound designer for the sandbox video game Minecraft (2011).
Rosenfeld co-founded the independent video game studio Ivy Road with developers Davey Wreden and Karla Zimonja.
"[11] Rosenfeld has also stated that he was "mediocre at school," but learning basic music theory and English came easy to him.
[12] In 2007, Rosenfeld started a blog known as "Blödsinn am Mittwoch" (English: "Silliness on Wednesday"),[13] where he posted a new song every week.
[17] In early 2009, Rosenfeld began collaborating with the Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson through TIGSource.
[7] Rosenfeld was responsible for the sound effects and music in Persson's work-in-progress video game Minecraft.
[10] In January 2010, fourth studio album A Cobblers Tee Thug, a collaborative work with Rosenfeld's friend Sohnemann was released.
[23] In 2011 a series of compilation albums with songs from various projects were released on Bandcamp for free, including Little Things,[24] I Forgot Something, Didn't I.
Rosenfeld still owns the rights to all his music in the game,[28] and has released two albums featuring songs from the Minecraft soundtrack.
Rosenfeld, who up until that point had worked at an assembly line for a company in Stollberg, could now pursue music as his primary source of income.
[31] Vice called it a "gleeful and unobtrusive collection of short melodic instrumentals that skip around daintily like cute little bashful kittens, but with a dark self-deprecating humour lurking beneath".
Many of the new songs were being added into features of the game that were not present when the first batch of music was produced; i.e. the Nether or the End.
The Volume Beta releases consisted of a double CD edition of the album, a vinyl record which came in black and a red "fire" splatter color, and a limited edition of the vinyl pressed on a magenta translucent material[35] which was at first exclusive to Europe but was later re-pressed internationally.
[36] In 2015, Rosenfeld released 148, which much like 72 Minutes of Fame carried a significant amount of personal content, albeit slightly more hidden under lyrics and effects.
[38] Rosenfeld released 2 Years of Failure in 2016, a Bandcamp exclusive compilation album of music made for failed projects or songs that could not fit anywhere else.
[43] The songs of this album were created and used as a soundtrack for an informative talk given at the Game Developers Conference 2017 by Teddy Dief.
[54] On 16 June 2021, Rosenfeld announced on Twitter that his album from 11 years prior, Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures would be remastered and released onto major streaming platforms.
[55][19] In July 2021, Rosenfeld, along with Davey Wreden, Karla Zimonja and Annapurna Interactive announced the launch of Ivy Road, a game studio founded by the trio.
"[69] Rosenfeld again expressed interest in composing an ambient bonus track for his third album in a tweet posted in December of that year.
Rosenfeld additionally stated that the record would be longer than the previous two albums combined, which in total clocks in at over 3 hours and 18 minutes.
"[46]: 31:40 Later that year, he would elaborate on his Discord server, saying:[74] "I still want to do stuff for Minecraft, but I’ve never managed to get to an agreement with the big guys.