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 best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all five current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance), as well as composing all music for the newly released Silent Hill: Homecoming.

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Soundtrack, Ambient, Other