Akira Yamaoka

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 Se

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. Music from Silent Hill will be performed in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany.