Career
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. 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 and Psychonauts.
More recently, Emerson-Johnson was the composer behind the 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, and The Walking Dead (video game), The Wolf Among United States In all three seasons of Sam & Max he plays the C.O.P.S., a group of obsolete computers, and in Telltale Games" Tales of Monkey Island series, he plays the Marquis DeSinge as well as the Thief.
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 Personal Computer Awards.
He shares an AdventureGamers.com 2009 Aggie award for best voice acting for his work on Tales of Monkey Island.
His 2013 Bachelor of Arts.F.T.A. nominated score to The Walking Dead has eclipsed much of his earlier work and has shown him to be a composer of tremendous versatility. British Academy of Film and Television Arts Games Golden Joystick Game Audio Network Guild Game Music Online Annual Game Music Adventure Gamers Aggie Awards.
