Dimitriy Dyachenko

Dimitriy Dyachenko is a European trained professional musician, sound designer, pianist and Film/TV/Game composer.

Dimitriy is a versatile composer, he writes original soundtracks with dramatic music, romantic and piano music, jazz, children's and world music as well as an ambient, industrial, house and other genres. Dimitriy's music is thoughtful and distinctive; his impressive mixes of orchestral, choral and contemporary music styles increase the emotional and dramatic influence in many entertainments of genres including movies, video games, animation and more. His music combines the skills of transfuse different moods, environment and actions. Dimitriy continues working on contemporary music, both chamber and orchestral, opening new harmonic independence.

Graduated from P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine where Dimitriy gained a Master's degree he started to work with video game developers and movie production studios in Europe and United States.

In 2008 Dimitriy wrote original music for the feature film drama "The time I was writing poems", produced by New Wave Films and Mediartsound. He also was involved as a sound supervisor and voice over editor for this movie. Since 2007 Dimitriy took part in well-known video game development projects such as "Crime Craft", "Unbound Saga" and "Robocalypse" with Vogster Entertainment as an audio engineer and sound producer.

Since 2004 Dimitriy has been working with Digital Spray Studios on the game "You Are Empty". He created the complete sound design 95% of which is comprised from Dimitriy's original sounds. Dimitriy also created the sound effects and music for several video game trailers which was presented on E3 Expo. A lot of original music was scored by Dimitriy Dyachenko for the game and was officially released in 2008 as an Original Soundtrack from the video game "You Are Empty". As a result Dimitriy became the first composer whose original soundtrack was ever published in Ukraine.

Dimitriy Dyachenko created more than one hour of original music and produced major portion of the sound effects for the world-wide selling video game "Boiling Point", published by Atari in 2005.

Prior to 2005 Dimitriy worked for three years as an educator conducting in R. Glier State Higher Music College.

Dimitriy's debut as a composer took place in 2002 with the legendary game project series "American Conquest" from GSC Game and CDV for which Dimitriy wrote the original music.

Dimitriy is a member of BMI and founder of Mediartsound, Inc. - Original Music and Sound Production Company. He has a constant desire to improve. Dimitriy earned a professional certificate as a Sound Producer/Designer of Sound Processing Technologies and continues his training. At the moment he works on several unannounced projects and his new music album.

Game-OST just connected with Dimitriy Dyachenko, a main guy behind the music of "You Are Empty". Recently this game soundtrack was released by Russian label KeepMoving Records. So everyone, who wants to know more about this fantastic music, should read this interview very carefully.

Holidays continues, Respected Ones! KeepMoving Records, with a little help of Game-OST squad, just released two game soundtracks: You Are Empty and Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power.

Galactic Assault was very warmly received by the press. Yeah, this is first interesting game based on “Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power” novel and one of the few good games under Strugatsky universe. Music was composed by Sergey Khmelevsky. He constructed good sci-fi atmosphere – atmosphere of hopeless war which takes place in Land of Fathers after Maxim Kammerer destroys the Center.

Gameplay of You Are Empty wasn’t so good as in Galactic Assault, but the game has fantastic feeling of abandoned cities. Events take place in Soviet Union after the second World War. Communists trying to create superhuman species but something goes wrong and most part of population die from unknown sickness. Another one becomes walking dead. Soundtrack was composed by Dimitriy Dyachenko. It is powerful mix of ambient and industrial.

Both discs have huge booklet (12 and 16 page for Galactic Assault and You Are Empty accordingly), interview with composer and concept art from the game. Both albums priced at 6.99 USD.

KeepMoving Records official site: www.keepmovingrecords.com
You can listen to samples and order Galactic Assault soundtrack here.
You can listen to samples and order You Are Empty soundtrack here.

We can celebrate a little victory – a publisher of game soundtracks appeared in snowy Russia. “KeepMoving Records” specializes in publishing movies’ and games’ soundtracks. The label has just started its work, so right now the choice isn’t a wide one: a few «cine» albums and 2 game disks.

Game music is represented by soundtracks of “Sea Dogs” and “Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales”. Music for both games was composed by Yury Poteyenko, well-known for soundtracks from both “Night” and “Day” “Watches” and from the new “Irony of Fate”. We remind that 1C had released two-disc album of “Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales” soundtrack some time ago, but being quite expensive (300 rubles or even more) and somewhat absurd (there’s the same soundtrack on both discs, but on the second one it’s in .ogg + bonus wallpapers), and having a very fair booklet stopped this edition from being wholesale. But it’s all really democratic here – customer gets fully remastered game stuff, eight-page booklet and love from the whole Redaction for the perfect purchase paying only 200 rubles.

The label is planning to release an excellent “You Are Empty” soundtrack, which was earlier available only in Polish game edition; on the wide spread of Russia.

“KeepMoving Records” official site: www.keepmovingrecords.com.