Iona Takashima

From Sega Retro

IonaTakashima NewEmployee.png
Iona Takashima
Employment history:
Sega Interactive (2019-04-01[1][2] – )
Divisions:
Role(s): Composer, Sound designer, Musician
Education: Tokyo Polytechnic University (Interactive media, 2019)[3]

Iona Takashima (髙島 依麻奈) is a composer, sound designer and singer at Sega of Japan. She started as a part-time employee working on Chain Chronicle and Ongeki.

Education

Since junior high school, Iona Takashima wanted to create sound for video games.[4][5] She began composing music in high school and posted some songs to YouTube.[5] Takashima joined the Department of Interactive Media department of Tokyo Polytechnic University[3][4] after researching the various possible universities and seeing that some sound designers had graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic.[4]

In her first year at university she joined the sound study group where she formed connections and also participated outside the school in DJing and composition.[4] This was the proceeding for 2 years, and in her 3rd year and final year (2018), Takashima expanded her knowledge of sound by attending a seminar focused on sound, writing with other members based on a theme and creating music for independent productions.[4] She also decided to learn various skills unrelated to sound, taking opportunities she could only be offered as a student.[4] Takashima began showcasing her work to a wider audience by making and selling CDs at conventions and working for companies she would be interested in working for full-time.[4] This includes Sega, composing the song "The Holy Lights" for Chain Chronicle and arranging it with Takahiro Kai,[6] and editing songs for the rhythm game Ongeki.[5][7]

Career

Iona Takashima officially joined Sega Interactive in 2019.[1][5] At first, her roles at the company mainly consisted of creating sound effects and singing provisional songs, the latter of which was a new aspect of sound development she was unaware of,[5] done to test out how the song fits a person's voice before hiring a professional singer. Her roles later expanded to include music, most prominently with Samba de Amigo: Party Central.[8] In 2023 she worked alongside Takenobu Mitsuyoshi on all of her known projects.

Production history

Games

Music

Song credits

Main article: Iona Takashima/Song credits.

Interviews

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02P6q3y2a3s5WmdxVLurAPZ9BtVY47MoicWuq5Cd88pmVvBHLLYdW2RUy6oU6nHxJVl&id=100008373909598
  2. ↑ https://www.sega.co.jp/recruit/interview/new/new05/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008373909598&sk=about_work_and_education
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 https://int.t-kougei.ac.jp/interview00.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-02 12:22)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 https://sega.co.jp/recruit/interview/new/new05/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-03-20 18:49)
  6. ↑ Chain Chronicle 5th Anniversary Original Soundtrack
  7. ↑ https://vgmdb.net/album/87118
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IzeNEYil7w
Retrieved from "https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=Iona_Takashima&oldid=959258"