question: Who graduated from the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world and went on to create a Boston based video game music project?
answer: Shota Nakama
context: Title: Jake Kaufman
  Passage: Jacob "Jake" Kaufman (also known as virt or virtjk) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer.  After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of "Q*bert".  He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games.  In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it.  His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005.  Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as "Contra 4", "," "", and "Shovel Knight".  In early 2015, he and Jessie Seely formed CSP Industries, and launched a Kickstarter for "[NUREN] The New Renaissance", a project that they call "the world's first virtual reality rock opera."  In late 2015, Kaufman composed and wrote lyrics for "Power Overwhelming", the debut album of parody supergroup Big Bad Bosses.
  Title: Garry Schyman
  Passage: Garry Schyman (born 1954) is an American film, television, and video game music composer.  He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such television series as "Magnum, P.I." and "The A-Team".  By 1986, he was composing for movies such as "Judgement" and "Hit List".  At the request of a friend in 1993, he composed the music for the video game "Voyeur", but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry, citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time.  He continued to compose for film and television, only to return to video games for 2005's "Destroy All Humans! ".  Finding that in his absence the quality and perceived importance of video game music had risen substantially, he has since composed for several games, writing the scores to "BioShock" and "Dante's Inferno" among others.  He still composes for film however, his latest being "Brush with Danger" directed by young "Indonesian" director "Livi Zheng".  He has won numerous awards for his video game scores, including several "soundtrack of the year" awards.  Throughout his career, he has worked on over 25 television shows, 10 films, and 13 video games.
  Title: Takeaki Kunimoto
  Passage: Takeaki Kunimoto (国本剛章 , "Kunimoto Takeaki" ) is a former composer of video game music.  He used to work for the Japanese video game developer Hudson Soft.  With them he would go on to compose several of their most famous early hits, including "Star Soldier", "Milon's Secret Castle", "Mickey Mousecapade" and "Robowarrior".  In recent years, he has dedicated his time to performing video game music at live houses in Shibuya, as well as releasing several albums containing his video game music material.
  Title: Tommy Tallarico
  Passage: Tommy Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, musician, sound designer, television personality and live show creative director and producer.  He has worked on over 300 video game titles since the 1990s, has received numerous awards for his contribution to the video game industry.  Notably, he is the creator of the concert series Video Games Live (VGL), a multi-award-winning symphony orchestra that has played video game music across the world since 2002.  He also co-hosted the television shows Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006.  VGL and Tallarico hold several Guinness World Records.
  Title: Berklee method
  Passage: In music performance and education, the Berklee method is the music theory, terminology, and practice taught at Berklee College of Music, the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.  The "Berklee method" was founded by Lawrence Berk after study with Joseph Schillinger regarding the latter's, "elaborate system of composition that employed mathematical permutation and combination process to generate rhythms, harmonies, and melodies".  Later, attempting to codify jazz and popular music practice, the Berklee method often differs from common practice harmony and voice-leading rules or guidelines.
  Title: Descendants of Erdrick
  Passage: Descendants of Erdrick is an American video game music cover band based out of Austin, Texas.  They play arrangements of classic video game music, and are the first video game music cover band to appear in their own video game.
  Title: Berklee College of Music
  Passage: Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.  Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including rock, flamenco, hip hop, reggae, salsa, and bluegrass.  Since 2012, Berklee College of Music has also operated a campus in Valencia, Spain.
  Title: OverClocked ReMix
  Passage: OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by various traditional means.  The primary focus of OC ReMix is its website, "ocremix.org", which freely hosts over 3,000 curated fan-made video game music arrangements, information on game music and composers, and resources for aspiring artists.  In addition to the individual works, called "ReMixes", the site hosts over 70 albums of music, including both albums of arrangements centered on a particular video game, series, or theme, and albums of original compositions for video games.  The OC ReMix community created the "Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix" soundtrack for Capcom in 2008, and began publishing commercially licensed arrangement albums in 2013.
  Title: Video Game Orchestra
  Passage: Video Game Orchestra (VGO) is a Boston-based project that performs its own "rockestral" arrangements of video game music with a rock band, orchestra and choir.  The project was created by Shota Nakama, an Okinawan-born producer who graduated from Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory.  Comparative to the other existing major video game concert acts, which mostly focus on the pure orchestral performances, the rock band element is the core essence of the VGO.  Their concerts are presented as a rock show with entertaining audience engagement, improvised solos and 80's like show tricks on stage.
  Title: Masaharu Iwata
  Passage: Masaharu Iwata (岩田 匡治 , Iwata Masaharu , born October 26, 1966) is a Japanese video game composer.  After graduating from high school, where his musical projects included composing on a synthesizer and playing in a cover band, he joined Bothtec as a composer.  He composed the soundtrack to several games there, beginning with 1987's "Bakusou Buggy Ippatsu Yarou", and after the company was merged into Quest, he left to become a freelance composer.  His most well-known projects include "", "Tactics Ogre", "Final Fantasy Tactics", and "Final Fantasy XII", though throughout his career he has composed music for over 65 games.  He is one of the founding members of Basiscape, headed by fellow composer Hitoshi Sakimoto and currently one of the largest independent Japanese video game music production companies.  His compositions for strategy role-playing games such as the "Ogre Battle" and "Final Fantasy Tactics" series have been described as "among the most well-recognized in the genre".
citations: Berklee College of Music Video Game Orchestra