Stakula profile
JARNO "STAKULA" SARKULA
Composer, sound designer & audiovisual artist
Fact Sheet

Founder and sole owner of media production company Stakula Ltd. since January 2001 with a subsidiary Stakula Games founded April 2010.

Passionate gamer starting from early video games & Commodore 64.

Five year long career as a Finnish television personality “Kreivi Stakula” (Count Stakula), a game journalist with a more than thousand reviews to date and more than 260 hosted
TV episodes.

Excellent skills in composing, music production, sound design, graphical design, film, video and music DVD productions.

Master of wide variety of instruments including guitars, basses, keyboards and woodwinds, especially saxophones and clarinets, small and huge.

Well connected to hire best musicians in Finland for any project imaginable.

Years of experience as a sound engineer both in the studio and in the field. Familiar with both PC and Mac platforms.

Familiar with all relevant game platforms (Symbian, iPhone, NDS, PSP, PC, Wii, Xbox 360, PS3). Plenty of experience working with middlewares and engines such as FMOD, Unreal and Unity.

Well-connected to handle voice-over productions with lots of experience in casting, directing, handling localization problems, etc. Comprehensive VO talent contacts in Europe and US.

Founder, leader, main composer and woodwind player of the award-winning Finnish world music band Alamaailman Vasarat.