2025 Speakers
Cody Johnson, Composer, Audio Director, Emperia Sound and Music
Cody Matthew Johnson is an award-winning music producer, songwriter, and composer known for his work on Star Wars Outlaws, Trek to Yomi, Bayonetta 3, and Devil May Cry 5. As an in-demand composer and producer, Johnson’s irreverent and creative fusion of contemporary styles has lead his work to be featured in wide cross section of some of the world’s largest video game titles and franchises, such as: Star Wars Outlaws, Trek to Yomi, Bayonetta 3, Resident Evil 2, Arknights, Synced, Devil May Cry 5, PUBG: Mobile, Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, Quantaar, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and more. His works have garnered critical acclaim, live concerts, accolades, nominations, and awards from The Game Awards, SXSW Gaming Awards, Game Audio Network Guild Awards, NAVGTR Awards, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and Digital Dragon Awards. As a songwriter, Cody has built a reputation for producing anthemic songs for video games in collaboration with or performed by well-known musical artists, such as Yours Truly, Suicide Silence, Volumes, and BAER. Johnson is a frequent lecturer at video game, technology, and music conferences as well as universities: Devcom Developers Conference, Digital Dragons, Soundtrack Cologne, PAX East, GameSoundCon, NAMM, SuperMAGfest, Tokyo Game Show, Berklee College of Music, George Mason, Musicians Institute, LIU, USC, MTSU, Vanderbilt, CSU, and more. Founded in 2019, Cody is the CEO, Creative Director, and Co-Founder of the Emperia Group, a multi-division full stack interactive audio solutions company that includes Emperia Sound and Music, Emperia Records, and Emperia Music Group. After its conception, Emperia Sound and Music expanded into new divisions vertically integrated across sound and music for interactive media to provide an end-to-end approach beginning with conceptual pre-production through production, post-launch support, and music rights management through Emperia Music Group. In 2023, pioneered and helmed by Johnson, Emperia Music Group launched in collaboration with Universal Production Music, Gamescape Audio. Gamescape Audio is revolution fusion of interactive music licensing and audio services designed for game developers – transforming the future of immersive media and gaming. Cody Matthew Johnson is a proud Kiesel Guitars Artist and exclusively plays Kiesel Guitars.
