Mikko Tarmia

{{short description|Finnish video game music composer (born 1978)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1978}}[http://www.mikkotarmia.com/about.php Mikko Tarmia's official about page]

|origin = Mikkeli, Finland

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|genre = Video game music

|occupation = Composer, musician, sound designer

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|label = The Sound of Fiction

|associated_acts = Amnesia The Dark Descent, SOMA, Penumbra (Overture, Black Plague, Requiem & Necrologue)

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Mikko Tarmia is a Finnish video game music composer known for working with Codeblender Software, Frictional Games, and Wolfire Games. He founded the independent record label The Sound of Fiction.[http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/mikkotarmia.shtml Interview with Mikko Tarmia (April 2009)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424033104/http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/mikkotarmia.shtml |date=24 April 2010 }} Square Enix Music Online (Article by François Bezeau and Chris Greening)]

His first work was with the Macintosh developer Codeblender Software, and between 2002 and 2005 worked on four games with them.[http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,267214/ Mikko Tarmia Developer BIO] He is most well known for making the music for the Penumbra series. His record label released the soundtrack for the games in January 2010.[http://www.frictionalgames.com/site/node/97 Dark Penumbra Soundtrack Released to Critical Acclaim] Frictional Games, 8 January 2010[http://www.vgmrush.com/blog/?p=820 Penumbra Soundtrack – Special Edition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213091816/http://www.vgmrush.com/blog/?p=820 |date=13 February 2010 }} VGM Rush, 7 February 2010 He also worked with Frictional Games for their game Amnesia: The Dark Descent, with a feature about him being included with the games special features. Tarmia's work is also featured in the 2023 Frictional Games release of Amnesia: The Bunker, another installment in the Amnesia survival horror game series.

He has worked on Frictional Games' SOMA and with Wolfire Games for their game Overgrowth.[http://www.moddb.com/games/overgrowth/news/mikko-tarmia-on-game-music-composition Mikko Tarmia on game music composition] Overgrowth ModB, 11 January 2010[http://www.vgmrush.com/blog/?p=268 Interview with Mikko Tarmia: AIKA, Penumbra and More] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301111251/http://www.vgmrush.com/blog/?p=268 |date=1 March 2012 }} VGM Rush, 21 April 2009