Akira Yamaoka

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Akira Yamaoka

Akira Yamaoka ( Japanese 山岡 晃 , Yamaoka Akira ; born February 6, 1968 in Niigata ) is a Japanese music producer and composer of soundtracks for the Japanese game developer Konami .

life and career

Yamaoka studied product design and interior design at the Tokyo Art School . From September 1993 until the end of 2009 he worked for Konami as a freelance composer for video games. His musical style is shaped by the industrial sound.

Yamaoka composed and produced the soundtracks and often the sound effects of the Silent Hill series almost single-handedly. He also wrote the music for the movie of the same name (from Silent Hill 1-4 to be precise ) and was simply rearranged by Jeff Danna . Akira Yamaoka also worked as a producer for the fourth part of Silent Hill 4: The Room . The music from the game Silent Hill 2 was performed in 2005 at the third game music concert in Leipzig .

Yamaoka worked with Sota Fujimori on the soundtrack for Shin Contra (released in Europe and the US as Contra : Shattered Soldier ), while he only contributed two tracks to Rumble Roses . He is also not well represented in the Dance Dance Revolution and beatmania IIDX soundtracks, with the latter composing under various pseudonyms such as riewo, Detroian, De Vol or Akira Shintani.

Yamaoka's first independent album iFUTURELIST , the tracks of which are largely based on tracks from the video games mentioned above, or at least refer to them, was released in Japan in January 2006. In 2012 he composed the soundtrack for the console game Lollipop Chainsaw with Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Jimmy Urine .

In addition to Angelo Badalamenti, he also counts Depeche Mode and Metallica among his influences.

Web links

Commons : Akira Yamaoka  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rock Out Behind the Music of Lollipop Chainsaw . Spelmusik.net. March 30, 2012. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved on March 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ Interview with Akira Yamaoka . Spelmusik.net. July 16, 2002. Archived from the original on June 29, 2007. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Yamaoka, Akira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山岡 晃 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese music producer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Niigata