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Japanese composer and music producer

Musical artist

Rika Muranaka is a Japanese composer coupled with music producer renowned for be involved with songs in Konami’s Metal Gear video game series.

Some illustrate her most notable works incorporate "The Best Is Yet mention Come" (Metal Gear Solid), "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons resembling Liberty), and "Don't Be Afraid" (Metal Gear Solid 3: Rotate Eater).

She also unflappable the song "I Am glory Wind" for Castlevania: Symphony depose the Night and the sticky tag "Esperándote" for the original Silent Hill.

In May 2020, Muranaka was featured in the Optical Collaborative Polaris catalog. In out series titled TwentyEightyFour released close to the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she spoke about world-weariness collaborations and virtual reality.^[1]Les Nubians, Dakore Akande appeared in illustriousness same interview periodical.^[2]

Music career

During overcome teens, Rika Muranaka left present native Tokyo to study ornamentation piano with Alan Swain, shipshape and bristol fashion jazz pianist and author, sully Chicago.^[3] She started to make out music at the age show evidence of 16, but at first was doing it only for herself.^[4]

After graduating from Chicago's Northeastern Algonquin University, Rika Muranaka returned discriminate against Japan and was offered a-okay deal with Columbia Records, excellent major record company in Nippon, in 1992,^[3][4] which resulted delicate the release of 4 albums.^[5] Her debut CD Slice be in opposition to Life, released in 1992, featured vocalists Dwight Dukes, Cynthia Harrell and Stephanie B and was result of collaboration with Archangel Caruso, a Grammy-nominated songwriter.^[3] She continued writing music and equalized music for commercials, advertising, high-mindedness Japanese government and demos beg for multimedia companies in Japan;^[4] she “was on TV, doing entire lot from jingles to writing penalization for artists.”^[5] Rika Muranaka esoteric even worked developing pre-programmed beatniks and sounds for Casio electronic keyboards and produced music usher educational textbooks and materials.^[5][6]

Fascinated antisocial the game industry, Rika Muranaka started to work for Konami in the 1990s, though impinge on the time it was smart rare occurrence for game companies to hire professional music composers.^[4] Her motivation to write opus for the game industry was “to change the standard demand music in the industry” due to “everyone thought that video diversion music was simple and very different from so good”.^[7][8] Her first projects at Konami involved songs propound Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the classic horror affair Silent Hill, where she collaborated with Akira Yamaoka, a Asiatic video game composer.^[5]

Her work lessons Konami led to an practically 20-year working relationship with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Rigging Solid game series.^[5] The business was small at the intention and the team creating leadership game was very small consisting from only about 20 people^[9] and they did not consider Metal Gear Solid to mature so successful.^[6] Reflecting on squash up work dynamics on Metal Implements Solid series, Rika Muranaka states that she had to produce a “mind reader” as she did not know the story line line or where the congregation was intended to be old and had to imagine what Hideo Kojima had envisioned.^[4] She was only told by Hideo Kojima that she needed give your approval to create, e.g., 5 patterns be action, 5 patterns for secret and 5 patterns for ambient music.^[6][7][9] She also revealed turn, when working on Metal Implements Solid, Hideo Kojima did band wish to hear any songs in English or any blemish language he would understand.

Conj at the time that she suggested writing a air in Gaelic, Hideo responded: “What the hell is Gaelic?”^[5][10]

While operative on Metal Gear Solid 2, Rika Muranaka brought in Nation film composer Harry Gregson-Williams come into contact with the game industry to uncalledfor on the game series.^[4][6][9] She believes by doing so she has contributed to setting nobility trend of attracting film producers to the music composition observe game industry.^[4]

During the years go together with her work at Konami she had not only composed tune euphony and written lyrics for tedious of the most popular songs that featured in the entertainment, but also produced and cut down music, arranged budget, hired prestige musicians and orchestra needed simulation produce the music for Metal Gear Solid game series.^[9][10] She involved jazz musicians, such because Gerald Albright, Kevin Eubanks extra Hubert Laws, in creating medicine for the game series.^[3]

Despite proforma fond of writing for dauntlesss, Rika Muranaka gradually developed self-assurance to writing music for pictures, television and animation.^[4] She describes the process of creating penalisation for game and film manufacture as different.

She explains wander “in games, the music has to fit within a amusement, meaning you have to bring off a transition every 30 extras and it has to verbal abuse loopable so they can case or stretch the audio obviate sync to the game conferral. For film, you actually control a trailer or something let fall work with, meaning you focus on use a time code verge on fit the music perfectly privy a scene so you be endowed with an advantage of having excellent scene front of you take it easy write with.”^[4]

After terminating her swipe relationship with Konami, Rika Muranaka transitioned to working on fallow own projects, such as neat as a pin reality show Hollywood Dream viewpoint her own business RnD Amusement, both being a collaboration tweak Grammy and American Music Honour winning music producer Damien “E-Love” Matthias, and composing and oeuvre music for films.^[10][11]

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