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Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (born October 13, 1981) 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.[1]

Jared Emerson-Johnson
Emerson-Johnson conducting a recording session at AudioSFX
Background information
Birth name	Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson
Born	(1981-10-13) October 13, 1981 (age 41)
Origin	San Francisco, California
Genres	Jazz, classical
Occupation(s)	Composer, voice actor, sound designer, voice director
Instrument(s)	Vocals, keyboards, guitar, violin, mandolin, ukulele, banjo
Years active	2002–present
Website	Bay Area Sound

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 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Psychonauts, and Firewatch. Emerson-Johnson is perhaps best known as the composer behind multiple video games produced by Telltale Games, such as Bone, Sam & Max, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Batman: The Telltale Series, and Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series.

In all three seasons of Sam & Max, he voices the C.O.P.S., a group of obsolete computers. In Tales of Monkey Island, 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' Bone: The Great Cow Race were finalists for the 2007 Independent Games Festival. His score for Telltale Games' Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space 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.[2]

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

• The Bard's Tale (2004)
• Bone: Out from Boneville (2005)
• America's Army: Rise of a Soldier (2005)
• Bone: The Great Cow Race (2006)
• Sam & Max Save the World (2006–2007)
• Alien Syndrome (2007)
• Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space (2007–2008)
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (2008)
• Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (2009)
• Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (2010)
• Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (2010)
• Poker Night at the Inventory (2010)
• Back to the Future: The Game (2010-2011)
• Puzzle Agent 2 (2011)
• Jurassic Park: The Game (2011)
• Double Fine Happy Action Theater (2012)
• The Walking Dead (2012)
• Poker Night 2 (2013)
• The Wolf Among Us (2013)
• The Walking Dead: Season Two (2013)
• Tales from the Borderlands (2014)
• Game of Thrones (video game) (2014)
• The Walking Dead: Michonne (2016)
• Batman: The Telltale Series (2016)
• The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (2017)
• Batman: The Enemy Within (2017)
• Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series (2017)
• The Walking Dead: The Final Season (2018)
• Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe (2020)
• Sam & Max Save the World Remastered (2020)
• Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual (2021)
• I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar (2021)
• Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Remastered (2021)
• The Wolf Among Us 2 (2023)

Other works

• Mr. Lux At Your Service (2008)
• YouTube Presents: The Birds and the Biz (2008)

Notes

BAFTA Games Awards

Year	Project	Category	Result
2013	The Walking Dead	Best Original Music	Nominated

Golden Joystick Awards

Year	Project	Category	Result
2014	The Wolf Among Us	Best Audio	Nominated

Game Audio Network Guild Awards

Year	Project	Category	Result
2015	The Walking Dead: Season Two	Best Dialog	Nominated
2013	The Walking Dead	Best Dialog	Won
2012	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Best Soundtrack Album	Won
2004	LeapFrog Leapster: SpongeBob SquarePants	Best Audio - Other	Won
2004	n/a	Rookie of the Year	Won

Independent Games Festival

Year	Project	Category	Result
2007	Bone: The Great Cow Race	Excellence in Audio[1]	Nominated

Golden Joystick Awards

Year	Project	Category	Result
2014	The Wolf Among Us	Best Audio[2]	Nominated

Jug Band

In addition to his work in entertainment music scoring, Jared is also the front man of the Rivertown Skifflers, a northern California based jug band. [3]

References

External links

• Official Site
• Jared Emerson-Johnson at Bay Area Sound, Inc
• Jared Emerson-Johnson at IMDb
• Jared Emerson-Johnson at MobyGames
• Jared Emerson-Johnson at Giant Bomb

На других языках

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Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (* 13. Oktober 1981 in San Francisco, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Videospielmusikkomponist, Sound Designer, Synchronsprecher und -regisseur. Er ist der musikalische Leiter und führende Komponist bei Bay Area Sound, einer Tonproduktions-Gesellschaft für Videospiele.[1]

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[es] Jared Emerson-Johnson

Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (13 de octubre de 1981) es un compositor de música estadounidense de videojuegos, diseñador de sonido, director de voz y actor de voz. Emerson-Johnson es el supervisor de música y compositor principal en Bay Area Sound, una compañía de producción de audio especializada en diseño de sonido, música y voz en off para videojuegos.[1]

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