Mikko Tarmia
Appearance
Mikko Tarmia | |
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Born | 1978[1] |
Origin | Mikkeli, Finland |
Genres | Video game music |
Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, sound designer |
Website | mikkotarmia |
Mikko Tarmia is a Finnish video game music composer known for working with Codeblender Software, Frictional Games, and Wolfire Games. He founded the independent record label The Sound of Fiction.[2]
His first work was with the Macintosh developer Codeblender Software, and between 2002 and 2005 worked on four games with them.[3] He is most well known for making the music for the Penumbra series. His record label released the soundtrack for the games in January 2010.[4][5] He also worked with Frictional Games for their game Amnesia: The Dark Descent, with a feature about him being included with the games special features.
He has worked on Frictional Games' SOMA and currently with Wolfire Games for their upcoming game Overgrowth.[6][7]
Games credited
- SOMA
- Overgrowth
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Penumbra: Necrologue
- Penumbra: Requiem
- Penumbra: Black Plague
- Penumbra: Overture
- Deep Trouble 2
- Rally Shift
- Epsilon Tahari: Reign of the Machines
- DeepTrouble
References
- ^ Mikko Tarmia's official about page
- ^ Interview with Mikko Tarmia (April 2009) Square Enix Music Online (Article by François Bezeau and Chris Greening)]
- ^ Mikko Tarmia Developer BIO
- ^ Dark Penumbra Soundtrack Released to Critical Acclaim Frictional Games, 8 January 2010
- ^ Penumbra Soundtrack – Special Edition VGM Rush, 7 February 2010
- ^ Mikko Tarmia on game music composition Overgrowth ModB, 11 January 2010
- ^ Interview with Mikko Tarmia: AIKA, Penumbra and More VGM Rush, 21 April 2009