Mikko Tarmia

Finnish video game music composer (born 1978)

Mikko Tarmia
Born	1978 (age 45–46)^[1]
Origin	Mikkeli, Finland
Genres	Video game music
Occupation(s)	Composer, musician, sound designer
Labels	The Sound of Fiction

Website	mikkotarmia.com thesoundoffiction.com

Musical artist

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 with Wolfire Games for their game Overgrowth.^[6]^[7]

Games credited

Amnesia: The Bunker
Amnesia: Rebirth
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
The Designer's Curse

References

^ Mikko Tarmia's official about page
^ Interview with Mikko Tarmia (April 2009) Archived 24 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine 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 Archived 13 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine VGM Rush, 7 February 2010
^ Mikko Tarmia on game music composition Overgrowth ModB, 11 January 2010
^ Interview with Mikko Tarmia: AIKA, Penumbra and More Archived 1 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine VGM Rush, 21 April 2009