16 Facts About Yuu Miyake

Yuu Miyake is a Japanese composer and sound engineer who formerly worked at Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Yuu Miyake's most known work surfaced with Katamari Damacy soundtracks, on which he served as a sound director.

Yuu Miyake listened to anime themes, disco and Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Yuu Miyake later aspired to have a career in illustration, frequently producing drawings.

Yuu Miyake started creating music aged 14, using a PC-88.

Yuu Miyake was given creative freedom while following the game's sound direction of big beat music, although he felt pressure to catch up with the music that his seniors, Sano and Keiichi Okabe, were creating.

Yuu Miyake considers his work on these games to be his "specialty".

In 2000, Yuu Miyake worked with Namco director Keita Takahashi on a video project called Texas 2000.

Yuu Miyake composed for promotional videos and commercials, and provided additional sound design and programming for Mondo Grosso's songs "Everything Needs Love" and "Shinin'", both of which appear on his album Next Wave.

Yuu Miyake participated in colleague Hiroshi Okubo's nanosounds circle, contributing tracks to multiple albums between 2000 and 2004.

Yuu Miyake was given extensive trust and creative freedom, and considers the sound design and music to have been a major aspect of the game's success.

Yuu Miyake served as the sound director for future titles in the series, and composed for Takahashi's Noby Noby Boy in 2009.

Yuu Miyake has continued to contribute tracks to further Bandai Namco games, and has worked on games by other companies, including Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz and Gunslinger Stratos.

Yuu Miyake started a side project with former Bandai Namco co-worker Yoshihito Yano, named Mikanz.

Yuu Miyake attended MAGFest 13 in January 2015, holding a QA conference and performing various Katamari Damacy series songs under his DJ handle of "eutron".

Yuu Miyake tries to ensure that his classes are up-to-date and as fun as possible for students.