Mikko Tarmia | |
Background: | non_performing_personnel |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Origin: | Mikkeli, Finland |
Genre: | Video game music |
Occupation: | Composer, musician, sound designer |
Label: | The Sound of Fiction |
Associated Acts: | Amnesia The Dark Descent, SOMA, Penumbra (Overture, Black Plague, Requiem & Necrologue) |
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 , 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 , another installment in the Amnesia survival horror game series.
He has worked on Frictional Games' SOMA and with Wolfire Games for their game Overgrowth.[6] [7]