Akira Yamaoka (?? ? Yamaoka Akira, born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan ) is a musician and video game composer, having scored dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College , where he studied product design and interior design. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer. Biography 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 "Esperandote" in Silent Hill, composed by Rika Muranaka). Since Silent Hill 3, he is playing a more important role as the series' producer, also continuing with his music composition working. Yamaoka's sound commonly contains strong melancholy undertones and genera

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