Civ. 4 Won a Grammy
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/02/from-the-arcade-to-the-grammys-the-evolution-of-video-game-music/71082/
Game composer Christopher Tin released an album last year that featured his Baba Yetu track from Civ. 4. It got nominated for a rather obscure Grammy and won.
Congratulations, Video Game Muscians! This historic win is for you! Here's hoping Jared gets a Grammy of his own for a video game composition in the future.
Game composer Christopher Tin released an album last year that featured his Baba Yetu track from Civ. 4. It got nominated for a rather obscure Grammy and won.
Congratulations, Video Game Muscians! This historic win is for you! Here's hoping Jared gets a Grammy of his own for a video game composition in the future.
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Oh, c'mon. This is a big deal for video games as an industry. It means that their medium is one step closer to being taken seriously as an art form.
It's only a matter of time before a video game wins Best Soundtrack, Best Original Song, and a slew of other big name awards.
It's about time those thugs finally recognized the talent invested in game music.
And Jared.... now it's your time!
I know, right? For once. They actually managed to please even me, with Iron Maiden taking home an award. Admittedly, it wasn't even for the best song on the album, but still, it was nice to them given one.
Uh... might I ask what constitutes as sounding like video game music to you? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because 'video game music' isn't really a specific genre or style. *shrug*
The reason why this song won a Grammy is because the composer included it on one of his albums and would have been completely ignored otherwise, like all the other music you might be thinking of. And I agree, there's a lot of really great music out there that lots of people disregard just because they're created for video games. In his acceptance speech, the composer made a point of noting that he originally made it for a video game, which I think was a good move on his part. Baby steps!
And yet, you have John Williams and Hans Zimmer dabbling in the medium because of the challenge of writing non-linar scores. I mean, Jim Dooley scored Epic Mickey recently, and he also composed music for Pushing Daisies!
If composers clearly understand the medium and can take it seriously, why can't the music industry?
Of course it can be as video games music like computer music generally also has a history and can be very dependent on certain hard-/software restrictions/characteristics like the C64's 6581, Amiga's Paula, Adlib's YM3812, ... up to todays softsynths/trackers which you still can listen to into in today's computer music, may they be pure chiptunes of just a part of a more common piece of music.
If I was running about in a distopian future lovingly rendered to the sound of chiptunes it'd be rather jarring I think you'd agree
Video game music = Music in games
If something calls for synth and midi sounds go for it, if those aren't the tools for the job to do the game justice then don't use em
It'll be interesting to see if nominations for video game music become more common in the future... I think as it stands it remains dependent on the songs being released on (or the video game soundtracks being released as) "real" albums. Soundtracks that you can order through the game company's website probably don't get enough attention, though this too may change in the age of digital distribution.
I think it's safe to say we can just go about our normal business of loving Baba Yetu
I agree.
There is nothing wrong with Günther.
we cannot even see what it is. The video is blocked in Germany.
Edit: did a google search. Why would they block that. Stupid Sony Music.