Jared Emerson-Johnson


Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson is an American video game music composer, sound designer, voice director and voice actor. Emerson-Johnson is the Music Supervisor and lead composer at Bay Area Sound, an audio production company specializing in sound design, music and voiceover for video games.

Career

Jared began his career as an assistant to composer Clint Bajakian on the score for LucasArts' Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. Emerson-Johnson has also worked as a sound designer for projects, including ', ', Psychonauts, and Firewatch. More recently, Emerson-Johnson was the composer behind the video games produced by Telltale Games, such as ', Sam & Max, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, ', ', The Walking Dead , The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones , ', and '.
In all three seasons of Sam & Max he plays the C.O.P.S., a group of obsolete computers, and in Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island series, he plays the Marquis DeSinge as well as the Thief.
In 2004, Emerson-Johnson received the Game Audio Network Guild's "Rookie of the Year" award. Jared's score, voice direction, and sound design for Telltale Games' were finalists for the 2007 Independent Games Festival. His score for Telltale Games' was also a finalist for Best Original Score in the 2008 IGN PC Awards. He shares an AdventureGamers.com 2009 Aggie award for best voice acting for his work on Tales of Monkey Island.
His score for Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead was nominated for Best Music of the year at the British Academy Games Awards'' in 2013.

Discography

Video game soundtracks

[Golden Joystick Award]s

Game Audio Network Guild Awards

Game Music Online Annual Game Music Awards

[Independent Games Festival]

[Golden Joystick Award]s

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