Breaking into the video game music scene just as the casual sector took off, Adam Gubman has worked on over 500 titles in less than ten years. Between his varied scores for smartphone games, Gubman has also reflected his artistic side with his rich arrangements and performances for the albums and concerts of Critical Hit and Taylor ...
Breath of Fire III composer recalls how she managed to convince her superiors that jazz music was the way forward ...
Alexander Brandon has done immense work in almost all aspects of game audio, from composition on games like Unreal, Deus Ex: Invisible War, and Alpha Protocol, to voice acting to sound design to his heavy involvement in the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.). At the beginning of the year, I met up with Alexander ...
Alexander Brandon is the man behind the music of such games as Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, and Deus Ex: Invisible War. He is currently employed by Obsidian Entertainment in California as the company's audio director, working on projects such as Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer and Alpha Protocol. A ...
Andrew Aversa, also known as zircon, has broke into several musical scenes and industries at a young age. In addition to being a long-term member of OverClocked ReMix, he has scored numerous video games, ranging from indie favourites such as Return All Robots!, to official adaptations of Monkey Island and Street ...
On April 12 2012, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia's oldest symphony orchestra, will perform Video Games Unplugged: Symphony of Legends at the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre under the baton of Eminence's Philip Chu and featuring the Concordis Chamber Choir. This is an original concert presentation that has been developed outside of ...
Ari Pulkkinen was one of the first Western composers our network ever interviewed, way back in 2008. Four years later, the Finnish composer has become a major industry name thanks to his work on several major projects: the latest from the Trine and Super Stardust universes, the fantasy platformer Outland, and the ...
Finnish-born Ari Pulkkinen has been the resident composer and sound director of Frozenbyte since 2003. During his time at the company, he has created acclaimed scores for Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds: Survivor, and Super Stardust HD using a range of acoustic and electronic elements. In a rare interview, Pulkkinen gives an insight into his experiences as ...
Arkadiusz Reikowski has recently begun building a name for himself in the horror game genre, last year with his score to Kholat, and more recently with his music behind Layers of Fear, each taking a different musical approach despite being of the same genre. While Reikowski has composed for a variety ...
On August 4, 2009, Arnie Roth will conduct the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert Sinfonia Drammatica in the Konserthuset Stockholm. The concert will combine performances of Chris Huelsbeck's Symphonic Shades with selections from drammatica -The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura-. This blend of Western and Eastern music promises to be a fantastic tribute ...
Arnie Roth is a classically-trained conductor known for his works on various Final Fantasy concerts. As producer of Distant Worlds - Music from Final Fantasy, he will round off a highly successful year on December 12 with a special concert at Chicago. It will feature Final Fantasy XIV's musical premiere, new battle ...
Under producer and conductor Arnie Roth, the Final Fantasy orchestral concert series Distant Worlds - Music from Final Fantasy is appealing to bigger audiences than ever. Building on a successful premise with new innovations, the tour has offered numerous new dates, special item additions, and CD and DVD releases this year. On ...
Asuka Sakai is a game composer turned record producer. At Namco, she was known for pushing the stylistic and technological boundaries of game music with extraordinary contributions to Katamari Damacy, Ridge Racer Type 4, Soul Calibur II, and Klonoa 2, among several others. She has since gone on to become a producer at ...
Atsushi Shirakawa, better known as TENMON, is an acclaimed yet elusive composer. The artist began his career at Falcom, working on franchises such as The Legend of Heroes and Brandish, before achieving widespread attention for his intimate scores to Makoto Shinkai films such as Voices of a Distant Star and 12 ...
Aubrey Ashburn is a classically-trained singer-songwriter known for her solo album Sleeping Virtue and her performances on several video game soundtracks. This year she sung the main theme for Dragon Age: Origins both for its soundtrack release and its appearance at A Night in Fantasia 2009. Her other soundtrack works include Devil May Cry 4, Alice ...
Austin Wintory recently made another big splash in the game music world with his latest score to Abzu, but his original iconic work was the score to Journey. Since then, he has landed some fantastic soundtracks, including Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, the latest installment of Ubisoft's franchise. Earlier this year at MAGfest, attendees were able ...
2012 has been a bumper year for Austin Wintory. Since his game score debut in 2006 with thatgamecompany's flOw, which brought him a BAFTA nomination, Wintory has built up a considerable portfolio of soundtracks for films. However, it was his reunion with thatgamecompany's Jenova Chan for Journey that marked his breakthrough, as his soundtrack ...
Boom Library is a set of commercial sound effects collections produced by Europe's leading game sound production studio Dynamedion. Including the "Cinematic Metal", "Creatures", "Wildcats", and "Guns" kits, the high quality libraries aim to offer flexibility and convenience for sound designers. In this interview, we discuss with Boom Library creative director ...
Ayako Saso is well-known for her contributions to various game scores, arranged productions, and original albums. During her early years at Namco, she demonstrated her flair as an electronic and fusion composer on works such as Rolling Thunder 2, Galaxian 3 Theater 6, Ridge Racer,and Xevious 3D/G. Now second-in-command at Shinji Hosoe's ...
Ayako Yamauchi is an audio engineer who has begun delving into games over the past few years. Her work has included being a one-woman sound department to working with Formosa, a sound team that has worked on major projects for companies including Nintendo, Naughty Dog, and Bioware. In this interview, Ayako Yamauchi ...
Basiscape has been responsible for a lot of music in the past few years, from Valkyria Chronicles 4, by Hitoshi Sakimoto, to various Vanillaware works, such as the PS4 re-releases of Dragon's Crown and Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, which featured orchestrations and new compositions by other members of Sakimoto's company. Yoshimi Kudo, known ...
Basiscape has been responsible for various Vanillaware works, such as the PS4 re-releases of Dragon's Crown and Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir. In their latest work, soon to be released in Western territories, Hitoshi Sakimoto and his team at Basiscape provide a gripping soundtrack to Vanillaware's highly acclaimed 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. In this interview ...
Emmy award-winning composer Bear McCreary initially burst onto the scene with his groundbreaking score to Battlestar Galactica, and since then his compositional career has been one hit after the next. From The Walking Dead to the just-released 10 Cloverfield Lane, McCreary has landed some amazing scores. In the world of game music, he scored ...
Composer Bear McCreary has attained legendary status among fans ofBattlestar Galactica. In recent years, he has branched out to score new television series and his debut film projects. However, perhaps his most fascinating works have been on video games, including Dark Void and the newly released SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs. In this ...
Ben "Abstraction" Burnes is a composer who is behind a number of original and soundtrack albums, and has been consistently releasing music since before his formal debut album Nature's Echo ten years ago. Yesterday, he released a soundtrack alongside a puzzle-platform game he created called Color Jumper released yesterday on Steam. In this interview, Burnes ...
At just 26 years old, Benny Oschmann has already worked on numerous major projects in both solo and collaborative roles. The German composer's music has been featured in franchises such as Hitman, Angry Birds, Toy Story, and The Settlers. He has also gained acclaim for his rich melodic scores to The ...
On September 17, accomplished classical pianist Benyamin Nuss will release his debut album for the record label Universal Music (Deutsche Grammophon/DECCA). Entitled Benyamin Nuss Plays Uematsu, the album will commemorate Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu's music with a wide range of creative and evocative piano arrangements. The album promises to demonstrate ...
Retro Remix Revue is a new game music remix project that have recently released their debut album on iTunes. This interview with the band's co-founder Blaine McGurty discusses the project's background, goals, musicians, and implementation. Interview Credits Interview Subject: Blaine McGurty Interviewer: Chris Greening Editor: Chris Greening Coordination: Chris Greening Interview Content Chris: First of all, ...
Retro Remix Revue is a game music remix project who have just released their second album. In this interview, Don and Blaine recollect the first volume, discuss what's new in the second volume, and what the future of the project might be. Interview Credits Interview Subject: Blaine McGurty Interviewer: Don Kotowski Editor: Chris Greening ...
Boris Salchow is best known for his cinematic orchestral scores for the Resistance and Ratchet & Clank series. Yet it is only recently that the composer has migrated from Germany to Los Angeles and pursued work on video games. His other activities have included scoring high-profile film and television projects, and ...
The recently released first-person shooter Crysis 2 depicts a war between human supersoldiers and alien invaders in a post-apocalyptic New York City. Crytek's Borislav Slavov and Dynamedion's Tilman Sillescu pioneered a hybridised full orchestral score for the title to complement the ambitious graphics and gameplay. In preparation for the physical soundtrack release on April ...
Borislav Slavov (aka Glorian) is a Bulgarian composer currently employed by Crytek Black Sea. During the last nine years, he has worked on major titles such as Knights of Honor, WorldShift, Gothic 3, and Risen as both an orchestral composer and ethno-music specialist. In the next month, his diverse and interactive score for his ...
Borislav Slavov made his name working on games like Knights of Honor, Worldshift, and the Crysis series. We've spoken with him previously on VGMO to discuss his role as Crytek's in-house composer and his work with Tilman Sillescu on the soundtrack to Crysis 2. Most recently, Slavov composed the much-anticipated soundtrack to Divinity Original Sin 2. In this ...
Casey Ormond is a Perth-based composer, arranger, and pianist. He came to the attention of Hitoshi Sakimoto with the help of our own Don Kotowski, leading him to produce two official piano albums, the Valkyria Chronicles Piano Pieces and Final Fantasy XII Piano Collections. Both amazed listeners for the way they transformed Hitoshi ...
Few composers have as much experience in writing and recording orchestral game music as Chance Thomas. Coming from a background in television and ads, Thomas' game soundtrack debutQuest For Glory V: Dragon Fire made history by becoming one of the very first Western game scores to deploy a live orchestra. Ever since, ...
Chase Bethea is the latest breakthrough indie composer to feature on VGMO. His most famous game soundtrack, Deity Quest, is his tribute to the classic Game Boy scores for the Final Fantasy and Pokémon series. He has since gone on to test his versatility with the horror-themed I Can't Escape: Darkness, the far ...
ACE's Hiroyo Yamanaka (aka CHiCO) and Tomori Kudo are a musical duo signed at Universal Music. Since their debut on Everyone's Tamagotchi, they have gone on to work on numerous soundtrack and album productions. Their most significant works include the huge worldly score for Emil Chronicle Online, the humorous arrangements and vocals ...
Chris Christodoulou is a living, breathing paradox. An individual who assimilate all sorts of influences to create novel, rounded, and personal works. A rare breed of musician who can enthral mainstream audiences with abstract artistic experiments. His soundtracks to indie titles Risk of Rain, The Sea Will Claim Everything, and ...
One of most acclaimed indie game scores in recent memory is Dust: An Elysian Tail, which took home an Annual Game Music Award. For the composing duo behind the vast majority of Dust – Chris Geehan and Dan Byrne-McCullough of HyperDuck SoundWorks – the soundtrack certainly marked a career highlight. However, ...
Combining a suited cosmic hero with nonstop action, the Turrican series were among the most popular titles of the 80s and 90s. The synthesizer scores for the games were created by Chris Huelsbeck and continue to be fondly remembered by computer and console gamers alike. This year, Huelsbeck plans to ...
On August 4, 2009, the music of two game music veterans will be performed at the concert Sinfonia Drammatica in the Konserthuset Stockholm. The concert will blend performances of Chris Huelsbeck'sSymphonic Shades with selections from drammatica -The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura-. Chris Huelsbeck is a game composer legendary for his works on various ...
Super Mario Galaxy - A Musical Adventure is a series of 40 minute school concerts that occurred across Germany in January 2010. These innovative concerts are intended to introduce children to live orchestral music. However, rather than focus on classics such as Peter and the Wolf, they feature colourful interpretations of the ...
Christophe Héral is a French composer who has extensively worked in television and film. To overseas audiences, he is better known as the composer behind the breathtaking organic score to Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil — one of the most acclaimed game scores ever created. After close to a decade away from ...
Christopher Lennertz is an American Emmy-nominated game composer who has worked on some of the biggest franchises in gaming, among them Medal of Honor, Mass Effect, The Sims and James Bond. In addition to this, Lennertz' work on original titles such as Gun and Warhawk has found great acclaim among score fans for their rich ...
The Grammy winner previews his sophomore album, The Drop That Contained the Sea, which will be released this week ...
Christopher Tin's debut album Calling All Dawns — a tie-in with Civilization IV — won the first Grammy awards for game music last year. This month, he released his sophomore album God of Love, a collaboration with Shoji Kameda (aka Kametron). While this album shares a focus on vocal performances, it incorporates contemporary rather than ...
Even if you have never heard of Craig Stuart Garfinkle, you certainly would have heard his music. Whether trailers for Star Trek, sequences for WWF, or shows for top comedians, the composer's music has been adapted for all sorts of purposes. However, he is best known to score listeners for his extensive works in ...
Damian Sanchez is a classically trained Spanish composer who has contributed to indie games of all types, resulting in a myriad of scores in his repertoire. From bluesy jazz to electronic to country-Egyptian fusion (yes, you read that correctly), Sanchez, adapts his style to fit the range of games he writes ...
Daniel Licht has made a name for himself through his chilling music for the Showtime series Dexter, and has since moved on to score games in big-name series like Silent Hill and Dishonored. His music always pushes the boundaries of instrumentation, bringing influences from all corners of the world, and frequently improvising to create ...
Toronto-based composer Dan Rodrigues has been working on game, television, and advertising projects for several years. However, it's his latest work — his unforgettable soundtrack for the Wii U's fast-paced kaleidoscopic racer Runbow — that has given him worldwide exposure. In this interview, Rodrigues shares the story behind scoring and ...
This Swedish composer shares his experiences working in Japan on franchises such as Resident Evil, Yakuza, and Pro Evolution Soccer ...
Daniel Ran's work on the soundtrack to Beyond Skyrim: Bruma has received praise from fans of The Elder Scrolls. Ran's music on the popular mod combines elements from the Skyrim and Oblivion soundtracks, from thematic content to orchestration, while still making the Bruma soundtrack very much his own. On Friday, the soundtrack's official release was announced; available for ...
David Bergeaud began his career as a motion picture composer during the '80s. The French-born musician eventually scored the pictures in motion from video games developed by Insomniac Games. In game music circles, his name is associated with Sony Computer Entertainment's Ratchet & Clank series, including the two most recent ...
Dynamedion is the leading studio for soundtrack composition and sound design in the European video game industry. The company has pioneered orchestral recordings in game music with major scores to the SpellForce and Anno series. Having featured on nearly 200 projects to date, the company has branched out to encompass sound ...
There are many examples in the indie sector of games that have fully integrated video game scores into the overall experience. One clear example of this is within the Bafta-nominated game Thomas Was Alone, by developer Mike Bithell. The composer David Housden’s score for the title is as important to the game ...
Elite, Starglider, and After Burner... just a few of the Commodore and Atari classics composed by David Lowe. And among the tracks featured in his recently crowdfunded album A Temporal Shift, which will remake his classic works with orchestra, vocals, and modern synthesizers. In this interview, David Lowe talks about the ...
On YouTube, there are a whole lot of musicians that play inspired and unique adaptations of video game music. That's why it's so exciting to see them come together to create an album together. Multiplayer: A Tribute to Video Game Music is a licensed cover album that comprises of twenty six songs from ...
David Wise is a veteran game composer best known for his works on Rare's Donkey Kong Country series on the Super Nintendo. Known for their beautiful melodies and expert synthesis, his compositions for the series have been commemorated with soundtrack releases, orchestral concerts, and fan remixes. Wise's other scores include ...
Dj CUTMAN has gained massive popularity in the game music scene for his "cuts", where he takes samples from original video game soundtracks and infuses them with his own brand of hip-hop. While his music also includes the more general sphere of chiptunes, Dj CUTMAN's most recent album release, titled Volume IV, ...
This weekend, iDIG is bringing game music to Ireland, with a series of concerts, panels, and workshops for aspiring musicians and game audio enthusiasts. Eimear Noone, original conductor of the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses orchestral tour and one of the composers on the recent World of Warcraft: ...
Emmanuel Lagumbay founded The Summoners Orchestra in 2015, a group dedicated to performing covers from the League of Legends collection of diverse champion themes. The Summoners Orchestra performs at conventions across the country, most notably Summoners Con, for which the orchestra was created. In this email interview, Emmanuel Lagumbay talks about the ...
Erik Desiderio has contributed to numerous projects over the years, from Immortals to The Borgias, but it's only recently that he's moved to the forefront. Some of his latest projects include the HMMA-nominated This Means War!, an adaptation of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and even some radical takes on World of Warcraft and Super Mario ...
Fabian Del Priore is a composer known for his works on titles such asExtreme Assault, Inspector Gadget, Chicago 1930, Cultures 2, Northland, CrossworDS, and Tricky Physics. He was also the lead composer of the Merregnon Trilogy and has offered arrangements and remixes to the Immortal CDs, PLAY! A Video Game Symphony, and the ...
Julian "Jules" Conroy, better known by his online handle "FamilyJules7x," has established himself as one of the premier cover artists of video game music. A freelance musician and gamer, his flexible approach to arrangements of fan favorite themes has resulted in a popular YouTube channel that has amassed over 200,000 subscribers and ...
Filippo Beck Peccoz is a Munich-based, Berklee-trained game composer who has worked on over 20 independent game titles over the last five years. Highlights of his demo reel include his contributions to the Bomberman series, his AGMA-nominated toybox soundtrack to The Last Tinker: City of Colors, and his latest soundtracks Shift ...
Frank Klepacki has appealed to a legion of fans with his action-packed contemporary scores for the Command & Conquer series. However, the composer is actually experienced in composing music in a wide variety of styles and moods. He has worked on numerous other games over his two decade career — spanning The ...
French composer Frédéric Motte (aka Elmobo) is one of the veterans of the Amiga demoscene. Over the years, he has produced many impressive scores, ranging from the funky Fury of the Furries, to the ghoulish Nightmare Creatures, and the rocking Bakugan. Also active as a recording artist, he has also produced two studio albums ...
A relative newcomer to the video game music industry, Gareth Coker has composed music for the recent films Dark Power and The Labyrinth, as well as indie games Primal Carnage and inMomentum. More recently, Moon Studios released Coker's original soundtrack for indie game Ori and the Blind Forest, which has been met with huge success based on top ...
Garry Schyman is an American composer whose works range from television classics to viola concertos to epic game scores. Following a decade-long hiatus, he returned to the game industry in 2005 with the humorous pastiche score to Destroy All Humans and subsequently achieved worldwide recognition for the evocative yet apocalyptic soundtrack to BioShock ...
British composer Gavin Harrison has worked with everything from trackers to bands to full orchestras over the years. On the games front, he developed quite a fanbase through his ultra-catchy chiptune soundtracks to games such as Deep Loot, Gunslugs, and Neoteria . More recently, he has wrote the rich electronic soundtracks for Light ...
Veteran game composer George Oldziey joined Origin in 1994 to score one of that year's biggest games, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. Since then, Oldziey has has put his mark on some of the biggest computer games of the 1990s, including titles in the Wing Commander, Ultima, and Crusader ...
Go Sato is a veteran composer at the Japanese Arcade manufacturer Seibu-Kaihatsu. During his time at the company, he has composed the majority of the sequels, remakes, and spinoffs for the popular shooting series Raiden, demonstrating considerable stylistic versatility with each title. His other projects include Viper Phase 1, 0 Day: ...
Masaru Shiina (aka Go Shiina) is a composer at Namco Bandai Games who gained widespread recognition for his exceptional orchestral works on Tales of Legendia. Among his other projects include contributions to the Mr. Driller, Taiko no Tatsujin, The iDOL@MASTER, MotoGP, Ace Combat, and Tekken series. In a rare interview ...
Graeme Norgate is a veteran sound director, composer, and hailing from London. Since entering the industry in 1994, Norgate has pioneered the audio of numerous influential projects at different companies: Rare's Goldeneye and Killer Instinct, Free Radical Design's TimeSplitters andSecond Sight, and Crytek's Crysis 2. In the ever-changing world of game production, Norgate has experienced several ...
Grant Kirkhope is one of the most popular game composers in the western games industry. He achieved great recognition at Rare for his scores to the adventure titles Banjo-Kazooie andDonkey Kong 64, first-person shooters Perfect Dark and GoldenEye, and, of course, the life simulations Viva Piñata and Trouble in Paradise. A couple of years ago, he left the ...
Grant Kirkhope has been praised for his iconic work on a wide variety of games, from Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Piñata, the Perfect Dark series, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. A 2015 Kickstarter project, which campaigned for a game that brought back the original creators of games like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong ...
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is just weeks away. The giant open-world RPG, designed by Big Huge Games and published by Electronic Arts, is one of the most eagerly anticipated titles of the year. It will feature a thematic orchestral soundtrack led by Grant Kirkhope, known for scoring the Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Piñata, ...
Grant Kirkhope is one of the most popular game composers in the Western games industry. He achieved great recognition at Rare for his scores to the adventure titles Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64, first-person shooters Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007, and, of course, the life simulations Viva Piñata and Trouble in Paradise. His more recent projects include co-composing ...
Greg Edmonson broke into the industry scoring several acclaimed television shows for American networks: Firefly and King of the Hill. However, he is best known for underscoring Nathan Drake's worldly adventures on the Uncharted series. In this interview, Edmonson reflects on his work on the Uncharted series and discusses some of the highlights ...
Harumi Fujita's involvement in the games industry dates all the way back to 1984. During the early years of SNK and Capcom, Fujita spent her days programming music and sounds into arcades using hexadecimal. Over the years, she made her mark writing music and creating sounds for series such as Ghosts 'n Goblins, Mega ...
Hayato Matsuo has had a rich career as an orchestral composer. In game music, he has worked on the Dragon Quest, Fuurai no Shiren, Ogre, Front Mission, and Shenmue series. He has also achieved recognition for anime scores such as Hellsing, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Les Misérables, as well as ...
In recent years, Hideki Sakamoto has propelled his music production company noisycroak into one of the leaders in the games industry. With works spanning franchises such as Echochrome, No Heroes Allowed, and Yakuza, Sakamoto has offered distinctive and refined soundtracks for each of his projects. In this interview, Sakamoto discusses ...
Street Fighter IV's Hideyuki Fukasawa is one of the most talented upcoming composers in the game and anime music industries. Debuting in the industry as a synthesizer operator on Taro Iwashiro's Red Cliff and Onimusha 2 scores, he developed a long-standing professional relationship with Capcom through Chaos Legion, culminating in his cutting-edge scores for Super Street ...
In December 2008, we finally conducted an interview with Hiroaki Yura of Eminence. A violin virtuoso in his youth, Yura travelled around the world performing with many top orchestras and winning numerous awards. It wasn't until 2005 that he settled down to create the Eminence Symphony Orchestra in Australia. Yura ...
In December 2008, we finally conducted an interview with Hiroaki Yura of Eminence. A violin virtuoso in his youth, Yura travelled around the world performing with many top orchestras and winning numerous awards. It wasn't until 2005 that he settled down to create the Eminence Symphony Orchestra in Australia. Yura ...
In September 26, 2009, the concert A Night in Fantasia 2009 will occur at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia. The concert revives the Eminence Symphony Orchestra's long-running concert series dedicated to performing symphonic arrangements of famous video game and anime music. On the day of the concert launch, Eminence founder and ...
It's been a big year for Eminence. Since we spoke to them last, they have premiered A Night in Fantasia 2009, produced the image albumPromise, and set up the elite composer group The Core. In addition, Eminence's orchestra and artists have recently performed on projects including The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, White ...
ZUNTATA is the in-house sound team and record label of long-running arcade and smartphone game developer Taito. In the last decade, the majority of the music for the company was created by electronic game composers Hirokazu Koshio and Shohei Tsuchiya. While both were born after the release of Taito's first masterpiece, Space Invaders, they've made sure ...
Following our meeting at Symphonic Fantasies, Hiroki Kikuta engaged in a detailed email-based interview with us, conducted by Justin Pfeiffer. He provides a fascinating recollection of his projects, ranging fromSecret of Mana to Tiara to his original conceptions, while offering an insight into his deeper philosophy about music, life, and expression. He also confirms ...
Hiroki Ogawa is a producer at Nobuo Uematsu's label Dog Ear Records. In addition to various management and administrative roles, Ogawa is responsible for conceiving, developing, and releasing Dog Ear Records' various album productions. His current productions range from soundtracks such as Lord of Vermilion and Xenoblade, to original albums such as Cellythm and Pia-Com, to ...
Hiroshi Tamawari helped to define the sound of Konami's PlayStation era, with his leading roles on Vandal Hearts, Azure Dreams, and Vandal Hearts II, as well as his memorable contributions to the Goemon, Twinbee, and Suikoden franchises. Since his departure from Konami at the turn of the century, Tamawari has worked exclusively outside the gaming ...
Hiroto Saitoh is a versatile game music composer acclaimed for his works on titles such as Schwarzschild, POWER DoLLS, Technictix, Berwick Saga, and Folklore. After leaving developer Kogado Studio, he formed his own record label LILT Records and has gone on to publish several original albums and game soundtracks featuring his own ...
Hiroyuki Kawada is Namco's longest-serving musical innovator. During his three decades at the company, he balanced work on classic properties (e.g. Galaga, Pac-Man, Xevious) with new properties (e.g. Ace Combat, Valkyrie, Time Crisis). For each title, he brought fresh styles and technical innovations. He was also responsible for bringing the series' music ...
Hiroyuki Kawada is Namco's longest-serving musical innovator. During his three decades at the company, he balanced work on classic properties (e.g. Galaga, Pac-Man, Xevious) with new properties (e.g. Ace Combat, Valkyrie, Time Crisis). For each title, he brought fresh styles and technical innovations. He was also responsible for bringing the series' music ...
Hisayoshi Ogura is among the most long-standing and influential musicians in the games industry. Having joined Taito in 1983, he made numerous musical and technological innovations in a time dominated by superficial chiptune scores. He is particularly known for offering stylistic fusions in The Legend of Kage, pursuing conceptual avant-garde ...
Hitoshi Sakimoto, without any doubt, belongs to the Eastern game music's hall of fame. He has created the music for such well-known titles as Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and the Valkyria Chronicles saga. Today, he runs his own company Basiscape, as well as the music label Basiscape Records. His ...
Hitoshi Sakimoto, without any doubt, belongs to the Eastern game music’s hall of fame. His credits include well-known titles like Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyria Chronicles, as well as cult hits like Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter, Vagrant Story and Mahou Daisakusen: Kingdom Grandprix. Today, he runs his own company Basiscape, as ...
In October 2008, we caught up with Hitoshi Sakimoto about his orchestral score for Sega's PlayStation 3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles. The acclaimed title is just about to be released overseas although its official soundtrack was released a few months ago. Hitoshi Sakimoto discusses his inspirations, approaches, and feelings about Valkyria Chronicles in this ...
Hyperduck Soundworks, the musical duo behind Dust: An Elysian Tale and Kingdom Rush, consists of Irish composers Chris Geehan and Dan Byrne-McCullough. The two have been recognized, both individually and as a team, for the flexible sounds and styles in both their original scores and their arrangements with various groups including Overclocked ...
Ippo Yamada, Ryo Kawakami, and Hiroki Isogai are the current members of game developer Inti Creates' sound team. The head of the team, Ippo Yamada, has been involved in Mega Man productions since the days of Mega Man 7 and Mega Man 8. He has gone on to lead the music of various ...
