Yamaoka Yasuhiro | pt

Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃) nasceu em 6 de fevereiro de 1968, em Niigata, Japão. É um músico e compositor de trilhas sonoras para jogos. Antes de ser compositor para jogos de videogames, Akira trabalhou como designer. Mas após estudar produção, se tornou músico. Yamaoka entrou para a Konami em 1994, para trabalhar nos jogos "Contra: Hard Cops", "Sparkster" e "Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2". Atingiu uma certa notoriedade por ter composto a trilha sonora da saga "Silent Hill". As suas músicas foram consideradas como parte essencial dos jogos, pois ajudaram a transmitir as emoções presentes neles de uma forma raramente...

Yasuhiro "Yas" Takagi (高木 保浩) (somestimes credited as Yasuhiro Takagi (SEGA) ) is among the oldest of Sega's sound team members and perhaps best known as the Sound Director for Shenmue II. His earliest work with the company was for Turbo OutRun, where he worked with renowned Sega composer Hiroshi Kawaguchi. Unlike Hiro, whom he has worked with since joining Sega in the late '80s, Takagi's roles have been largely in the background. Part of SEGA Sound Team & member of Sega's in-house band [H.] .

Around 1975, I taught myself how to play, in my own way, with the sound devices around me (musical instruments, turntables, tape recorders, furniture or anything). About 1981, I began to compile my work as an album on cassette tape, and loaned it to my friends. In 1986, I bought a synthesizer. From then, rather than creating sound collage work, my improvised playing increased, until around 1990, when my sound work slowed down. In 1994, I began to make DTM (DeskTop Music) with newly bought sequencer software and a PCM sound module for my Mac. I then made about one...