Brief Biography

Jarkko Hietanen aka Yasahi or Yasahimusic is a composer for film, video game and other media. Residing in Finland he works from his home town of Tampere where he creates moody atmospheres, big cinematic soundscapes, intriguing electronic compositions and suspenseful background music depending on the project in need. Or then again, he might just do something completely different if you dare him to.

To contact Jarkko Hietanen regarding any composing work, please head over to www.jarkkohietanen.com where you will find all the necessary contact information.

Full Biography

Jarkko has been composing music electronically from the early 1999. He has explored sounds from electronica to orchestral, from chill-out and down-tempo to game and cinematic music. The possibility to experience different genres and to try all kinds of new and old things in his music is too fascinating for him to pass, so it can't be said he'd have any certain favorite style of music he loves to compose. Some might still say Jarkko has a certain sound to him.

At one point Jarkko composed a lot of single demo songs to be released free online. During this time happened the founding of his largest musical project, "Yasahi". As "Yasahi" or "Yasahimusic" the exploration of the realms of electronica, experimental and most importantly ambient became very important to him. And it so happened that electronic ambient was eventually the genre to push him towards more film and game-like sound.

Later Jarkko applied to study sound in an academy focusing on TV and Film, and took the chance to dedicate himself fully to sound and music. During these studies he received offers for short film and advertisement scoring. This had a huge influence in helping Jarkko realize this was the kind of thing he really wanted to do in his life. Since then he has been composing for variety of media projects, including commercials, corporate videos, short films, machinimas and video game mods as a freelance composer. He has also had the pleasure to work as a sound designer on various of projects, including short films, adverts and games.

While Jarkko continues his studies and experiments with new genres in his music, he always actively seeks new projects to work on. Most recent events were the signing of various of his tracks to Bonaire Media focusing on movie trailers and TV and starting on the score of a feature American film.

To contact Jarkko Hietanen regarding any composing work, please go to the contact page or see below. Don't hesitate to share your project with him!

Composer
Contact

E-mail: contact {at} jarkkohietanen {dot} com

Instant messanging
MSN: yasahi {at} hotmail {dot} com (do not send e-mail to this address)
Gtalk yasahimusic {at} gmail {dot} com

Studio

Fatar SL-990 Pro, Akai MPD 26, Cubase 5, Behringer Truth B2030A's, Creek OBH 21SE, Sennheiser HD 600, E-mu 1212M, main PC system Intel i7-930, 6GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM, slave PC. Plenty of software and VSTi and a hugely vast sample library.