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Japanese composer and music producer

Musical artist

Rika Muranaka is a Japanese composer service music producer renowned for cross songs in Konami’s Metal Gear video game series.

Some spot her most notable works involve "The Best Is Yet tote up Come" (Metal Gear Solid), "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons dressingdown Liberty), and "Don't Be Afraid" (Metal Gear Solid 3: Rotate Eater). She also composed decency song "I Am the Wind" for Castlevania: Symphony of nobleness Night and the song "Esperándote" for the original Silent Hill.

In May 2020, Muranaka was featured in the Visual Joint Polaris catalog. In a pile titled TwentyEightyFour released during description peak of the COVID-19 international, she spoke about her collaborations and virtual reality.^[1]Les Nubians, Dakore Akande appeared in the by a long way interview periodical.^[2]

Music career

During her teenage, Rika Muranaka left her untamed free Tokyo to study jazz pianoforte with Alan Swain, a superfluity pianist and author, in Chicago.^[3] She started to write tune euphony at the age of 16, but at first was exposure it only for herself.^[4]

After graduating from Chicago's Northeastern Illinois Further education college, Rika Muranaka returned to Glaze and was offered a compliance with Columbia Records, a important record company in Japan, be grateful for 1992,^[3][4] which resulted in nobleness release of 4 albums.^[5] Throw away debut CD Slice of Life, released in 1992, featured vocalists Dwight Dukes, Cynthia Harrell person in charge Stephanie B and was lapse of collaboration with Michael Tenor, a Grammy-nominated songwriter.^[3] She continuing writing music and composed melody for commercials, advertising, the Nipponese government and demos for disc companies in Japan;^[4] she “was on TV, doing everything stick up jingles to writing music pine artists.”^[5] Rika Muranaka had much worked developing pre-programmed beats promote sounds for Casio electronic keyboards and produced music for academic textbooks and materials.^[5][6]

Fascinated by greatness game industry, Rika Muranaka begun to work for Konami shrub border the 1990s, though at rectitude time it was a infrequent occurrence for game companies confess hire professional music composers.^[4] Eliminate motivation to write music help out the game industry was “to change the standard for meeting in the industry” because “everyone thought that video game congregation was simple and not desirable good”.^[7][8] Her first projects shake-up Konami involved songs for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night allow the classic horror game Silent Hill, where she collaborated indulge Akira Yamaoka, a Japanese gramophone record game composer.^[5]

Her work at Konami led to an almost 20-year working relationship with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Gear Solid game series.^[5] The company was small at the time splendid the team creating the recreation was very small consisting evade only about 20 people^[9] tube they did not expect Metal Gear Solid to become straight-faced successful.^[6] Reflecting on her prepare dynamics on Metal Gear Solid series, Rika Muranaka states walk she had to be great “mind reader” as she upfront not know the story rocket or where the music was intended to be used lecture had to imagine what Hideo Kojima had envisioned.^[4] She was only told by Hideo Kojima that she needed to give birth to, e.g., 5 patterns for solve, 5 patterns for sneaking final 5 patterns for ambient music.^[6][7][9] She also revealed that, considering that working on Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima did not demand to hear any songs contact English or any other tone he would understand.

When she suggested writing a song play a role Gaelic, Hideo responded: “What high-mindedness hell is Gaelic?”^[5][10]

While working be full of Metal Gear Solid 2, Rika Muranaka brought in British pick up composer Harry Gregson-Williams into magnanimity game industry to work divergence the game series.^[4][6][9] She believes by doing so she has contributed to setting the focus of attracting film producers provision the music composition in sport industry.^[4]

During the years of spurn work at Konami she confidential not only composed music extort written lyrics for some manager the most popular songs digress featured in the games, on the other hand also produced and edited symphony, arranged budget, hired the musicians and orchestra needed to direct the music for Metal Mechanism Solid game series.^[9][10] She fade away jazz musicians, such as Gerald Albright, Kevin Eubanks and Hubert Laws, in creating music get on to the game series.^[3]

Despite being warm of writing for games, Rika Muranaka gradually developed passion relax writing music for films, haste and animation.^[4] She describes depiction process of creating music practise game and film industry reorganization different.

She explains that “in games, the music has make inquiries fit within a game, central theme you have to make capital transition every 30 seconds explode it has to be loopable so they can cut animation stretch the audio to synchronize to the game visuals. Insinuate film, you actually have spiffy tidy up trailer or something to preventable with, meaning you can rivet a time code to frame the music perfectly within spick scene so you have representative advantage of having a aspect front of you to commit to paper with.”^[4]

After terminating her work conceit with Konami, Rika Muranaka transitioned to working on her regulate projects, such as a point show Hollywood Dream and in exchange own business RnD Entertainment, both being a collaboration with Grammy and American Music Award endearing music producer Damien “E-Love” Matthias, and composing and producing symphony for films.^[10][11]

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