Akira Yamaoka 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); much of his work from previous Silent Hill titles have been compiled for the new 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. His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany. His music's sound reflects that of Industrial music. Yamaoka also performed music from Silent Hill at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, and accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar.
His first original album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
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