Entry 2 - Sound Artist

Shoji Meguro

Shoji Meguro is a composer and director at Atlus best known for his work on the Megami Tensei series. Born in Tokyo on June 4, 1971, Meguro became familiar with technology from a young age, given his parents owned a small family-run factory. Given his passion for technology, it was only natural that his interests extended to electronic musical instruments. When four or five, he was encouraged by his mother to learn the Electone organ and also went on to learn the trombone. As a child, Meguro wasn’t fond of mainstream music and instead listened primarily to the classical music of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The themes for several film and television programs also left quite an impression on him, and he went on to interpret such scores on Electone. The artist’s tastes diversified during junior high school. He grew to enjoy jazz fusion artists such as Herb Alpert, Casiopea, and T-Square; although distinct from his current musicality, he gained long-term inspirations from their smooth melodic songs. He even started to warm to J-Pop. While Meguro wasn’t particularly academic, particularly struggling at maths, he became very passionate about playing music.

Shoji Meguro was selected as my inspiration because most of my passion for video games came from the music behind the game. Often listening to his works motivates to push on forward to my dream and unlike most sound artist, he found fame from his job rather from his previous works. His job as a music composer has really pushed him forward among many sound artists.

Exmaples of his work can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh3FgVv24-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcE4-6QGgpc