Akira Yamaoka
a musician and video game composer, having scored
dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended
Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and
interior design. He joined Konami on September 21,
1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill
series of video games, for which he composed all the
music and sound effects in all four games; much of his
work from previous titles has been compiled for the 2006
Silent Hill movie adaptation, directed by Christophe
Gans. In the third and fourth games he ...read more
a musician and video game composer, having scored
dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended
Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and
interior design. He joined Konami on September 21,
1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill
series of video games, for which he composed all the
music and sound effects in all four games; much of his
work from previous titles has been compiled for the 2006
Silent Hill movie adaptation, directed by Christophe
Gans. In the third and fourth games he worked in
collaboration with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and also
played a more important role as the games' producer.
His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005
at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig,
Germany. Yamaoka's sound commonly contains strong
melancholy undertones and generally identifies with the
dark ambient, industrial, and trip-hop genres. Yamaoka
also performed music from Silent Hill at the world-
premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on May 27,
2006 in Chicago, Illinois, and accompanied the orchestra
with an electric seven-string guitar. He also composed
songs in BEMANI Series of KONAMI, also songs featured
in Silent Hill were being Transplanted in BEMANI
His first original album, iFUTURELIST, was released in
January 2006. « hide |
