Romain Dasnoy
Romain Dasnoy is a writer, composer and music producer. He founded the international music label Wayô Records and the concert production company Overlook Events. He is known for bringing video game music to European stages with composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Noriyuki Iwadare, Akira Yamaoka and Hitoshi Sakimoto; for presenting Danny Elfman on stage in Europe in the early 2010s; and for producing the world premiere of the official Studio Ghibli concert tour with Joe Hisaishi. He has also contributed to books and television programmes in France, and hosts on YouTube and Twitch. Born on 13 June 1982 in Pontoise, France, he studied Japanese language and cinema at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the early 2000s, he worked as a film journalist for magazines including Fantastic Report and Cinefonia. He then took part in the production of Japan Expo and the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, and co-founded Comic Con Paris in 2007. His early guests included Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee, Keir Dullea, Lalo Schifrin, Tony Curtis, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Gô Nagai and Buzz Aldrin. In 2011, he founded Wayô Records, a label dedicated to video game music. He has worked with Michiru Ôshima and Masashi Hamauzu, and produced Joe Hisaishi’s album for Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. In the same period, he founded Overlook Events, producing concerts in collaboration with Disney, Universal, Warner, Toei Animation, Toho Company, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Bandai Namco. As a producer, he has also served as music and artistic director for concerts under the Symphonic Adventure, Tribute Series and Melodia names. As an author, he has published short stories with Black Coat Press since 2014 and written essays on video games including Final Fantasy VI, Kingdom Hearts and Red Dead Redemption II, as well as cinema, notably Indiana Jones. His books also include The Film Music Composer Guide and The Science Fiction TV Show Guide. Forewords have been contributed by Paul Freeman, Robert K. Weiss, Akira Ueda and Peter Sherayko. In 2021, he launched MacGuffin Maker to direct documentaries and host live broadcasts on YouTube and Twitch about cinema, music and video games. In 2025, he released his first solo piano album, the experimental Fractal Piano, in collaboration with pianist Nicolas Horvath.