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Jacob "Jake" Kaufman (also known as virt or virtjk) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to a port of ''Q *Bert''. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as ''Contra 4'', ''Red Faction: Guerrilla,'' ''DuckTales: Remastered'', and ''Shovel Knight''. In 2015, he and Jessie Seely formed CSP Industries, and launched a Kickstarter for ''() The New Renaissance'', a project that they call "the world's first virtual reality rock opera." == Biography == Kaufman was born on April 3, 1981. Kaufman dropped out of high school, with what he describes as "a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organization". He spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias "virt". In 2000, Kaufman broke into the video game industry as a composer, with his first work being the Game Boy Color port of ''Q *Bert''. Over the next few years, he composed the music to several Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games. In 2002, Kaufman was one of the co-founders of the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes. VGMix has been described as being just as influential as OverClocked ReMix, the other major video game music arrangement hosting website. During 2002-2005, his career as a video game music composer began to take off. By 2005, he was a full-time freelance video game composer. He continues to compose music to increasingly big-name projects, such as ''Contra 4'' and ''TMNT'' in 2007 and ''Red Faction: Guerrilla'' in 2009; he describes composing the soundtrack to a ''Contra'' game and a ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' game as his "lifelong dream". Kaufman contributed a track to the official arranged album of music from ''Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi''. He was a full-time employee of Volition, Inc. while working on ''Red Faction'', but in January 2010, he left the company to become the "lead audio guy" for WayForward Technologies, for which he had already composed several soundtracks such as those of ''Shantae'' and ''Contra 4''. For WayForward he first composed the soundtrack to ''Shantae: Risky's Revenge'', the sequel to the game he worked on ten years prior. Original Sound Version named Kaufman their Composer of the Year for 2011, based on his work on ''BloodRayne: Betrayal'' and ''Mighty Switch Force'', as well as several other soundtracks and arranged albums. Kaufman lives with his puggle Nugget in northern Los Angeles.〔〔 While working at WayForward, Kaufman composed music for the ''Shantae'' series, the ''BloodRayne'' series, and nearly a dozen other games. During this time he also composed music for independent games such as ''Shovel Knight''. On November 1, 2014, Kaufman announced that he was leaving WayForward on mutual terms to work as a freelance composer and sound designer from his own studio, in order to be able to set his own schedule and choose his own projects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jake Kaufman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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