Sheesh, I can’t help but wonder what’s going on over at Capcom Japan. First it was Audio Director Tetsuya Shibata to form Unique Note, then sound designer and Sound Director Masayuki Endo to form Forcewick. We’ve now learned of a third key employee from Capcom Japan’s audio department that left the company, and that person is Hideaki Utsumi. While his name may not be immediately familiar, the list of titles he’s worked on over the years at Capcom is quite impressieve, including several titles in the Resident Evil series (including Resident Evil 5) and the Devil May Cry series.
As it turns out, Utsumi was the first to leave Capcom of the three we’ve mentioned, and he didn’t leave to go freelance either. As it turns out, Utsumi instead decided to become a music educator at the HAL Osaka Technical School (the sister site to the Tokyo campus where Kenichiro Fukui of Square Enix left to teach). We’ve fortunately been able to talk with Utsumi-sensei about this move, the programs at the HAL Technical Schools, his time at Capcom, and his record label, marth TERIT RECORDS, which has featured a number of awesome releases.
Read and learn in our exclusive interview with Utsumi-sensei after the jump! (more…)
