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Akira Yamaoka (山岡晃 Yamaoka Akira, born 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 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 (this excludes Silent Hill: Play Novel for the GBA); he is also set to compose the music for the upcoming Silent Hill movie. In the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which are available on the PlayStation 2 and PC and the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC respectively) he 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.

His first original album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.

Recently it has been announced that Akira Yamaoka will perform his music from Silent Hill live together with the orchestra at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on May 27 2006 in Chicago. PLAY! is a symphonic world-tour featuring music from various video game titles, including Silent Hill.

Credits

Studio Gear

Hardware

Roland JD-800
Roland JP-8080
Roland TB-303
Roland MKS-80
Roland DJ-70
Roland VP-9000
Sequential Circuit Prophet-5
Oberheim OB-MX
Memorymoog
Ensoniq VFX
Akai VX-600
Korg Prophecy.

Software

Emagic Logic Audio
Emagic EXS24
Emagic amt8
Phrazer Infinity.

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