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There's a lot of great game music out there, but the orchestral stuff is generally derivative of Mahler and Strauss. It's a genre that was plausibly modern 75 y
by aczerepinski 11y ago
There's a lot of great game music out there, but the orchestral stuff is generally derivative of Mahler and Strauss. It's a genre that was plausibly modern 75 years ago, but isn't today. I would love to see games expand beyond the cliche orchestral action style, but I understand with so much money on the line that nobody wants to take those types of risks.
- cableshaft 11y agoWho do you consider to be modern? I'd like to check them out. I haven't investigated classical music in awhile, but the only artist I know of that I've heard be considered modern is Stravinsky, and his most popular pieces are about a hundred years old themselves.
- aczerepinski 11y agoBartok and Messiaen are probably the next ones to check out after Stravinsky. In terms of harmoic/rhythmic sophistication, Messiaen still sounds as modern to me as the recent/current orchestral composers (Adams, Carter, etc).