Hideaki Utsumi

Hideaki Utsumi (内海 秀明, Utsumi Hideaki), aka Tono2097, is a video game sound designer, musician, composer and artist. He is best known for sound design for the Resident Evil video game series. He is a member of the band named mT, and plays the keyboard and midi stick. He is the first midi stick player in the world. Midi stick is like a video game joy stick of old times.^[1][2][3][4]

Utsumi worked in Capcom's sound design department for 14 years. He left in 2009 to teach at HAL Osaka Technical School.^[5]

In 2021, a video recorded and uploaded to Instagram of Gumi, a pet chattering lory owned by Utsumi, became popular on the internet, forming the basis of an internet meme. Within weeks of the video being published, Utsumi's YouTube channel would surpass 200,000 subscribers and accrue over 10 million channel views.^[6]

List of works[]

• Resident Evil (1996)
• Resident Evil 2 (1998)
• El Dorado Gate (2000)^[5]
• Devil May Cry (2001)
• Clock Tower 3 (2002)
• Resident Evil (GameCube remake) (2002)
• Mega Man X: Command Mission (2004)
• Glass Rose (2004)
• Haunting Ground (2005)
• Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (2006)
• Mega Man Powered Up (2006)
• Resident Evil 5 (2009)

Discography[]

• V.A. / KIVANDELYAN (1996)
• V.A. / - natsu - (1997)
• mT / Daydream (1999)
• GAME OVER
• u-man's diary -awaji-

References[]

External links[]

• Hideaki Utsumi at IMDb
• Tono2097 at personal web
• WorkShop^{[permanent dead link]} at capcom sound sphere (Japanese)
• marth TERIT RECORDS. at music ravel
• ORIGINAL SOUND VERSION at videogame music website

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