Get out those SAT skills! The Ivor Novello awards : Grammys :: The SAG awards : Oscars. They're the smarter, more peer-reviewed way for the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors to reward excellent songwriting and composing. And as the BBC reports, for the first time, it'll be honoring video game music. The bleeps and bloops of your favorite console games are becoming one of just six total categories at the Ivors this May.
And it's because they aren't just bleeps and bloops any more. A member of the award committee says that the music in video games has "matured beyond recognition," and that composing music for games pulls some muscles that most composers don't have, like "non-linear and multi-layered composition." No word on the nominees yet, but keep in mind, any game you nominate needs to have at least 1/3 of the composers be British or Irish, according to the Ivor rules. For instance, the music for Flower was great, but unless there's a hidden "O'" in front of Vincent Diamante's last name, you probably won't see it win.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 7:25AM Pure Black World Tendency said
The soundtrack that stood out for me was Prince of Persia. Especially the "healed" music had a very nice adventuring feel to it that contributed nicely to the platforming parts of the game.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 8:02AM I AM IRONHIDE said
We can say music games right?
Then I say Beatles: Rock Band.
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Then I say Beatles: Rock Band.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 9:44AM holyice7 said
If we might take a step back in time, here; I would suggest Grant Kirkhope for everything he's done from 1997 to 2008, especially regarding his expansive use of dynamic music to fit different actions and environments, and Kinuyo Yamashita for her work on Castlevania, which inspired the growth of game music as we know it today.
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