Eric Ye is a composer, performer, and educator based in San Francisco. A mentor at the International Game Developers Association, Eric is passionate about transforming the field of game composition pedagogy. He grew up obsessively listening to video game soundtracks and started writing his own game tracks on a DAW. Eventually, he pursued his passion for music and completed his music degree at San Francisco State University, studying music composition and piano performance.

An enthusiastic and prolific educator, Eric has taught multiple college courses at SF State on topics, including pop music and productivity. He has guest lectured and presented the topic of Japanese video game music at Berklee College of Music and GameSoundCon. His talk Writing Japanese Video Game Music: A Primer on Game Composition may be viewed here. His upcoming talk Japanese Video Game Music Demystified: A Guide to Analyzing and Composing Like the Masters will be held at MAGWest in July 2023. Additionally, he is an instructor at Southeast Asia Music Academy Online, teaching Introduction to Japanese Video Game Music Analysis and Composition.

Video game music has developed its own body of great works deserving serious study, just like classical, jazz, and film music. However, due to the challenges of VGM being an electronic art form, the study of game compositions itself is not always addressed in the college classroom setting. In 2021, Eric filled that void in game audio education by offering a semester-long course called Writing Japanese Video Game Music at SF State, covering 150 tunes over 15 weeks and hitting major titles each week. The course aimed to provide serious study of VGM literature and make great VGM from Japan more accessible.

His first run of the Japanese Video Game Music Bootcamp in the summer of 2022 was highly successful; he taught students from across the United States and abroad, ranging from media scoring students, game developers, video game music enthusiasts, professional producers, and audio engineers. With his extensive experience teaching video game music and his passion for the subject, Eric is dedicated to educating the next generation of video game composers and helping Western composers better understand the Japanese approach to game composition.