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News announced for the upcoming Game Music Connect 2015 conference in London on September 15th is that Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound [2] will be premiering an exclusive preview screening of it’s expansive look at gaming sound and music through the years. The preview, Beep: Big in Japan, will look at several different Japanese composers, such as:
- Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy)
- Yoko Shimomura (Mario & Luigi RPGs, Kingdom Hearts)
- Hisayoshi Ogura (Taito sound director behind Legend of Kage, Ninja Warriors, Darius series)
- Shinji Hosoe (Namco sound director turned SuperSweep music producer: Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX2,3)
- Tenpei Sato (Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Valis, the Disgaea series)
- Yoshino Aoki (Mega Man series, Breath of Fire series)
- Michiko Naruke (Wild Arms series)
- Koichi Namiki (Daytona Racing, Virtua Fighter, Sega Sound Team band)
Documentary director Karen Collins, associate professor for the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo, will be presenting her exclusive interviews with “Japan’s game music royalty”, all as a preview to the full documentary’s release in Spring of 2016. More about the project cane be read about on their website [2], as well as the Game Music Connec [3]t website, which still has tickets available for the show at The Purcell Room at London’s Southbank Centre.