Mikko Tarmia
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. His first work was with the Macintosh developer Codeblender Software, and between 2002 and 2005 worked on four games with them.
Mikko Tarmia
- Name
- Mikko Tarmia
- Born
- 1978
- Occupation
- Composer, musician, sound designer
- Nationality
- Finland
- Fields
- video game
- Languages
- Finnish
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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. His first work was with the Macintosh developer Codeblender Software, and between 2002 and 2005 worked on four games with them.
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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. 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. Tarmia's work is also featured in the 2023 Frictional Games release of Amnesia: The Bunker, another installment in the Amnesia survival horror game series. He has worked on Frictional Games' SOMA and with Wolfire Games for their game Overgrowth.
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Key facts
• Name — Mikko Tarmia • Born — 1978 • Origin — Mikkeli, Finland • Genre — Video game music • Occupation — Composer, musician, sound designer • Label — The Sound of Fiction • Website — mikkotarmia.com
Games credited
Games credited
• Amnesia: The Bunker • Amnesia: Rebirth • SOMA • Overgrowth • Amnesia: The Dark Descent • Penumbra: Necrologue • Penumbra: Requiem • Penumbra: Black Plague • Penumbra: Overture • Pools • Deep Trouble 2 • Rally Shift • Epsilon Tahari: Reign of the Machines • DeepTrouble • The Designer's Curse • The Designer's Curse Chapter 2 - Forgotten Horrors
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1978
Mikko Tarmia was born on 1 January 1978.
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- 1.Mikko Tarmia's official about page
- 2.Interview with Mikko Tarmia (April 2009) Square Enix Music Online (Article by François Bezeau and Chris Greening)]
- 3.Mikko Tarmia Developer BIO
- 4.Dark Penumbra Soundtrack Released to Critical Acclaim Frictional Games, 8 January 2010
- 5.Penumbra Soundtrack – Special Edition VGM Rush, 7 February 2010
- 6.Mikko Tarmia on game music composition Overgrowth ModB, 11 January 2010
- 7.Interview with Mikko Tarmia: AIKA, Penumbra and More VGM Rush, 21 April 2009
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