Timo Anttila

Timo Anttila is a composer who worked at Nokia from 2001 to 2002. He composed and optimized several ringtones that shipped on many of Nokia's first models with polyphonic ringtones.

Outside of his Nokia work, he has released a few house EPs, although he has not released any new material since 2011 and no longer composes music. He currently works as a sound designer for films and advertising.

Work with Nokia
Anttila joined Nokia in 2001, working on UI sounds and ringtones. At the time, the only other in-house sound designer was Mikko Tillander, although Jussi Salonen joined later that year. He also optimized ringtones for models such as the Nokia 3510. He only composed 4-poly ringtones, although some of them have 16-poly versions and eventually audio versions, though these were created by others.

He decided to only work at the company for a year, as he wanted to continue studies and ultimately pursue a career in sound design for films and advertising. After leaving, Markus Castrén, who was Anttila's friend at Tampere Polytechnic Art and Media school, joined in his place and only worked for 5 months as he also intended to continue his studies. Hannu af Ursin attended the same school and replaced Castrén (along with two others), ultimately working at Nokia for 13 years.

Regarding hearing his ringtones in public, Anttila wrote: Before iPhone hit the market it was practically impossible to avoid hearing my tracks or remixed versions of those in public in Finland. It was really weird at first realising how those tracks were kind of "top of the charts" at one time.

Credits
Only two credits have been confirmed, while two others are believed by Anttila to be his but he is not fully certain.