Akira Yamaoka
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Yamaoka in 2010
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| Native name | 山岡 晃 |
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February 6, 1968 Niigata, Japan |
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| Instruments | Electric guitar |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 Yamaoka Akira?, born February 6, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, sound designer, guitarist, and producer, who is best known for composing various games in the Silent Hill series by Konami. He also once worked as a producer on the series, as well as serving as a composer and producer of the Silent Hill film and its sequel. Currently, he is the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture.
Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. He originally planned to follow a career in design.
Yamaoka joined Konami on September 21, 1993. He immediately began to work on the games Contra: Hard Corps, Sparkster, and Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. He then shortly thereafter worked on the music for the PC Engine and Sega CD versions of Snatcher. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose Silent Hill's score, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack. Although initially hired as a composer, he soon became involved in overall sound design.
On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving his long term employer Konami. On February 3, 2010, it was announced that Yamaoka has joined Grasshopper Manufacture and was working with Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami on their action game, Shadows of the Damned. He was first appointed to the role of chief sound officer at Grasshopper, but became involved in aspects of game production as well.
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