He worked with musicians such as John Cale, David Byrne, and Patti Smith, and, after performing increasingly complex production and sound engineering tasks, moved into music composition in 1995.

[1] Jack Wall, born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,[2] earned a degree in civil engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia and began a career "planning out sub-divisions and shopping malls".

After recording a demo tape with the band, he was inspired to change career paths and quit his job to work in the music industry.

[4] By late 1995, Wall was living in Los Angeles and was married to singer Cindy Shapiro, who he had met in 1994.

[4][5] She knew Ron Martinez, who was starting a video game company, PostLinear Entertainment, and he asked Wall to work for it as a composer.

[4] Myst III was nominated for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition" award, which it lost to the Tropico soundtrack.

His work on Myst IV: Revelation in 2004 earned him his first three awards, those of "Best Live Performance Recording", "Best Original Vocal Song: Choral", and "Music of the Year" from the G.A.N.G.

[12] Wall, along with Tommy Tallarico, has produced the Video Games Live concert series, which began on July 6, 2005.

The two had been planning the concert series, which presents orchestrated versions of music from dozens of games, for three years.

[23] He also believes that a good video game music composer needs to have a lot of technical sound production skill to be successful.