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AKIRA YAMAOKA (山岡晃, Yamaoka Akira, born on February 6, 1968 in Niigata, Japan) has composed music for dozens of Konami video games. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all seven current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance). Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami’s Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
Career
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 the whole series (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for the Game Boy Advance and Esperándote in Silent Hill, composed by 村中りか (Rika Muranaka)).
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all seven current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance). Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami’s Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
Career
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 the whole series (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for the Game Boy Advance and Esperándote in Silent Hill, composed by 村中りか (Rika Muranaka)).
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Traumaf wrote:
Also lol @ respectable shoutbox. Can there be any greater irony?
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Traumaf wrote:
I don't think you even know what pretentious means. -I do indeed. you affected greater importance and intelligence than you actually have by writing me off as a metalhead which if you knew anything about anything, you'd look at my charts once and realize the contrary), trying to discredit what I said on those grounds. Sounds kind of pretentious to me. No?
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Traumaf wrote:
Another shoutbox pissing contest. How awesome! -It didn't have to be, You can thank Hatredofmusic for that.
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HighLordMhoram wrote:
Yes children, let the chaos of your ignorance grow. Your Lord is pleased.
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hatredofmusic wrote:
Addendum: how classy of you to block me from your shoutbox.
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hatredofmusic wrote:
p.s. I don't think you even know what pretentious means.
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hatredofmusic wrote:
OH NO I ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION TO WHO MAKES THE GAMES I PLAY.
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gendervariant wrote:
Another shoutbox pissing contest. How awesome!
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Sultanis wrote:
ハッピー・バースディ（トゥー・ユー）！
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Traumaf wrote:
Anyways, Hatredofmusic mistook me for a metalhead and brought up Team Silent the first chance he got. Hardly in any position to accuse one of having a predictable argument. Case closed.
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platformer wrote:
Heh. Of all places to hold an argument.
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Traumaf wrote:
Can you be any more pretentious? Please, go ahead. This is an invitation.
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hatredofmusic wrote:
Lol, could your argument be any more predictable?
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Traumaf wrote:
But hey, it's not my fault that people that treat TS and Akira in particular with religious level reverence deserve to be mocked extensively. But what do I know, AZNS DO SILENT HILL BETTR KAWAAII DESU NEKU NII
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Traumaf wrote:
SORRY I INSULTED UR GOD THO :C
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hatredofmusic wrote:
Also, I'm not playing Downpour because the series started sucking after Team Silent stopped making them. It's not because of nostalgia, it's because life's too short to waste on shitty games.
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hatredofmusic wrote:
A metalhead and his white knighting friend shitting up an otherwise respectable shoutbox, why am I not surprised?
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Chemin wrote:
Not that everything I said was directed towards you, specifically, either. It was more my 2 cents on the whole sampling-thing, and why some people, including myself, listen to him no matter how he is as an artist/person. He may or may not be the downfall of the series as far as design and production goes, but that won't stop me from listening to the soundtracks I enjoy. I'm not stupid like that.
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Chemin wrote:
Not your initial point. Way back in the days of a few months ago.
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Traumaf wrote:
...Way to totally miss my point.
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