Video Game Music Finally Recognized for Prestigious Musical Excellence Awards
While a gamer can easily list his or her favorite video game soundtracks, it’s to no surprise that the majority of people still dismiss game music as annoying background noise. This ignorant attitude is about to change however, as for the first time ever the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards of London will dedicate an entire category out of 6 total towards video game musical excellence.
With the growing recognition of the immense detail and complex music compositions that are dedicated to video games, it seemed only a matter of time until game music was given some rightful spotlight. As the huge success and popularity of the fully orchestrated “Video Games Live” concert has proved, modern and even classic games of days past have truly awe inspiring musical scores. This concert alone has sold up to half a million tickets and featured music from a wide variety of games and gaming eras, from World of Warcraft to Zelda. Take a look at this video and tell me you didn’t get goose bumps:
The growing video game industry is constantly being transformed and re-evaluated in its status as a legitimate form of art and entertainment. Frankly, it’s about time that famous composers such as Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Series) get the recognition they deserve. Congrats to all you underappreciated game composers out there, as lord knows I love to blast the orchestrated Sonic the Hedgehog theme song as I run to pump me up…seriously.
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Video Games Live is one of the coolest video game concerts currently out there. I’ve been to so many concerts… and I’ll be sure to share my experience the next time I go too.
I really love good video game music, but outside of a game context, it’s a pretty niche interest. Most orchestral soundtracks are cutesy-poo variations on the soundtracks of the films being pastiched or Gustav Holst’s Planets Suite, and a good MIDI soundtrack is brilliant but you can’t expect people to actually blast it on the cd player independent of the game in question. Video Games Live was a fun evening that should have featured more deodorant commercials, but I wouldn’t try putting David Braben up against Philip Glass any time soon.
Game music over the last ten years has advanced so much that if it weren’t for the likes of final fantasy scores, I wouldn’t have a love for instrumental music today. And yes, you CAN blast game music on a radio independant of the game itself since a lot of it today (and ten years ago) is made from a full orchestra or synthesized to sound like it came from one. I think it’s becoming more beautiful than many high dollar movie soundtrack orchestral music that’s being created. Listen to Final Fantasy Tactics (from 12 years ago!), as an example.
thats the jam!