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Browse piano sheets by Akira Yamaoka on Zen Virtual Piano. Konami was looking for someone to compose the score of Silent Hill, and Yamaoka put himself forward, thinking that he alone could make the soundtrack. He was first hired as a composer but soon took part in the game’s overall sound design, and he later named Silent Hill 2 as his favourite among his own soundtracks. A composer who volunteered for the job because he felt only he could do it suggests a strong sense of what the game should sound like. Akira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on 6 February 1968, and vgmonline says he was drawn from a young age to popular musicians whose work struck him as persuasive and original. His earliest memory was being blown away by Visage’s Moon Over Moscow on the radio, and in his teens he also enjoyed Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Metallica and Vangelis. He studied product design and interior at the Tokyo Art College, where he developed a fascination with connections between art and music. A student of design drawn to the link between art and music suggests a composer who thinks about sound as part of a whole environment. He started playing guitars and keyboards, and in high school learned about sequencing after buying a computer and started composing after forming a punk rock band. Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks was published by Konami in Japan on 3 October 2001, and eight tracks, including True, appeared in the 2006 PlayStation Portable release The Silent Hill Experience. A punk band, a computer and sequencing can be read as a set of tools from which a musician put his sound together, with each one adding a different part of the picture. The Inspion profile describes him as a sound designer and composer in many fields, including TV drama, anime, movies, commercials and console games, and as general producer of the well-known video game Silent Hill, providing not only music production but also the main contents of the game. He collaborated with artists such as Aphex Twin and Thundercat on music production for the movie KUSO, directed by Flying Lotus. His later works expanded outside the gaming world, such as the major Japanese TV drama The Rules of a Great Detective and the Silent Hill live-action film. Work spanning games, television and a film with Flying Lotus points to a method that travels well between media.
Browse piano sheets by Akira Yamaoka on Zen Virtual Piano.
Konami was looking for someone to compose the score of Silent Hill, and Yamaoka put himself forward, thinking that he alone could make the soundtrack. He was first hired as a composer but soon took part in the game’s overall sound design, and he later named Silent Hill 2 as his favourite among his own soundtracks. A composer who volunteered for the job because he felt only he could do it suggests a strong sense of what the game should sound like.
Akira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on 6 February 1968, and vgmonline says he was drawn from a young age to popular musicians whose work struck him as persuasive and original. His earliest memory was being blown away by Visage’s Moon Over Moscow on the radio, and in his teens he also enjoyed Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Metallica and Vangelis. He studied product design and interior at the Tokyo Art College, where he developed a fascination with connections between art and music. A student of design drawn to the link between art and music suggests a composer who thinks about sound as part of a whole environment.
He started playing guitars and keyboards, and in high school learned about sequencing after buying a computer and started composing after forming a punk rock band. Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks was published by Konami in Japan on 3 October 2001, and eight tracks, including True, appeared in the 2006 PlayStation Portable release The Silent Hill Experience. A punk band, a computer and sequencing can be read as a set of tools from which a musician put his sound together, with each one adding a different part of the picture.
The Inspion profile describes him as a sound designer and composer in many fields, including TV drama, anime, movies, commercials and console games, and as general producer of the well-known video game Silent Hill, providing not only music production but also the main contents of the game. He collaborated with artists such as Aphex Twin and Thundercat on music production for the movie KUSO, directed by Flying Lotus. His later works expanded outside the gaming world, such as the major Japanese TV drama The Rules of a Great Detective and the Silent Hill live-action film. Work spanning games, television and a film with Flying Lotus points to a method that travels well between media.
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Akira Yamaoka (born 6 February 1968 in Niigata) is a composer and sound designer associated with the Silent Hill series.
When Konami began searching for a musician to compose the score, he volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack.
He studied product design and interior at the Tokyo Art College.
He later named Silent Hill 2 as his favourite of his own soundtracks.