If you happen to be in the Tokyo area this coming weekend and have 2,500 yen free, you might want to check out Tokyo Game Music Show 2016. Boasted as the premier game music fair for lovers of game music, the event celebrates its fourth year with an incredibly impressive list of game music composers both new and old that will be showcased as either performers or at their own booths designed to interact with game music fans. Among those exhibitors in attendance will be Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana), Masafumi Takada (No More Heroes), Yuu Miyake (Katamari Damacy) and a lot, lot more! (Full List under the cut.)
The list of confirmed composers and game musicians to attend are:
Iwadare Noriyuki (Grandia, Ace Attorney)
Uematsu Nobuo (Final Fantasy)
WAVEMASTER (SEGA‘s Sound Team)
Kageyama Shouta (Pokemon, Luminous Arc)
Ogura Hisayoshi (Darius)
Kikuta Hiroki (Secret of Mana)
GAMADELIC (Data East‘s Sound Team)
Sasaki Hiroto (THE IDOLM@STER)
Studio AS (Konami)
ZUNTATA (Taito‘s Sound Team)
Takada Masafumi (No More Heroes)
TECHNOuchi (Dark Souls)
Tomono Katsumi (Lucky☆Star)
Nakayama Raiden/Norihiro Furukawa (Puzzle Bobble)
Naruke Michiko (Wild Arms)
Noisycroak – Sakamoto Hideki, Katou Hiroyoshi, Itou Keisuke (Time Travelers)
Kawaguchi Hiroshi/Hiro師匠 (Space Harrier, After Burner)
Furukawa Tomoaki (GUITARFREAKSV2, Gradius)
Basiscape (Odin Sphere, Muramasa: The Demon Blade)
Hosoi Soushi (Rewrite)
Miyake Yuu (Katamari Damacy)
Yamajet (Cytus)
Yamane Michiru (Castlevania)
Yu_Asahina (BEMANI)
The event will be held at the Harumi Passenger Terminal (4F) in Tokyo at noon. You can find out more details (If you can either speak Japanese or have a good browser translator) at the event’s official website, or by checking into their Twitter.
Tags: Composers, Events, Game Music, Japan, Tokyo Game Music Show
