Noa Nakai

Noa Nakai is a composer, media producer and violinist. He has created dozens of both monophonic and MIDI ringtones for Nokia, many of which were submitted to contests.

During the same time period as when he composed ringtones for Nokia, he was also a demoscene musician and submitted tracker modules to contests such as "Hovering Thru", as well as composing music with the Game Boy's sound hardware. He is currently a media producer at MTV Oy (not to be confused with the American TV channel, MTV), and rarely creates music nowadays.

Work with Nokia
In 2000, he submitted dozens of monophonic ringtones to one of the ringtone contests that Nokia ran in the MikroBitti magazine. Several, although not all, of his entries were selected and were loaded on several phones starting with the Nokia 8310 in 2001. He was also involved with creating more sophisticated versions of Nokia's own monophonic ringtones, as well as going on to compose several MIDI ringtones, though it is not known whether those were submitted to a contest or if Nokia eventually hired him under a contract.

His monophonic ringtones feature demoscene-esque techniques rarely used in the medium, such as the use of arpeggios, fast notes and "fake polyphony" (interleaving notes between other notes to give the impression that more than one channel is being used). By comparison, most other monophonic ringtones do not feature these techniques and just play simplistic melodies.

Credits
Many of Nakai's monophonic ringtone credits are known, including ones that did not make the cut. However, very few of his MIDI ringtones are known, as he has not provided these.