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Are you saying that video game music has more to offer besides reliving gaming memories? I'm genuinely interested in what is offered. For art music, there are a

Are you saying that video game music has more to offer besides reliving gaming memories? I'm genuinely interested in what is offered. For art music, there are already tons of resources for learning how to appreciate it more deeply.

ajuc 11y ago
> For art music, there are already tons of resources for learning how to appreciate it more deeply. Could you recommend something? I'm sceptical about "dancing about architecture", but I'd like to give it a try. So far I like some classical music (the famous guys mostly, also some stuff from Chopin), but I never was hardcore about that. > Are you saying that video game music has more to offer besides reliving gaming memories? Would Chopin's polonaises be less worthy had he wrote them for a video game? There's any genre you can name in videogame music. Even statisticaly there has to be something good there. From non-chiptunes I particulary like OSTs for the first Witcher and Bastion. And then there are genres that evolved with and for video games (and demoscene), like chiptunes or mods, and there's a lot of good music there, too. In fact chiptunes share a lot of constraints with symphonic music, and the amount of creativity there is great (imagine every classical composer had a private orchestra available for experimenting 24h/7 since he was a kid). For nice compilation of recent chiptunes see https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/pq72m/what_chiptune_albums_would_you_consider_as/c3re7rv https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/pq72m/what_chipt...
- ajuc 11y ago
  Can't edit anymore. This album is probably my favorite http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/rise-of-the-obsidian-interstellar http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/rise-of-the-obsidian-in...
- dcsommer 11y ago
  I've been using the somewhat annoying term "art music" instead of classical music to unpack carefully and artistically crafted music from music purely for commercial entertainment / not intended for close critique. The instruments used largely don't matter -- Chopin is indeed beautiful in certain chip tune arrangements. I'll make a slight digression here though by asserting that keeping live performers in the loop adds an additional unreplaceable layer to the music, since the performer then gets to interpert the original music and highlight new patterns within the music. Unfortunately I don't know specific books to learn this appreciation (although I know there are excellent ones out there) -- I was raised in this tradition and absorbed it through violin lessons, practice on my instrument, theory class, history class, and listening to a lot of classical music.

ajuc 11y ago

> For art music, there are already tons of resources for learning how to appreciate it more deeply. Could you recommend something? I'm sceptical about "dancing about architecture", but I'd like to give it a try. So far I like some classical music (the famous guys mostly, also some stuff from Chopin), but I never was hardcore about that. > Are you saying that video game music has more to offer besides reliving gaming memories? Would Chopin's polonaises be less worthy had he wrote them for a video game? There's any genre you can name in videogame music. Even statisticaly there has to be something good there. From non-chiptunes I particulary like OSTs for the first Witcher and Bastion. And then there are genres that evolved with and for video games (and demoscene), like chiptunes or mods, and there's a lot of good music there, too. In fact chiptunes share a lot of constraints with symphonic music, and the amount of creativity there is great (imagine every classical composer had a private orchestra available for experimenting 24h/7 since he was a kid). For nice compilation of recent chiptunes see https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/pq72m/what_chiptune_albums_would_you_consider_as/c3re7rv https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/pq72m/what_chipt...

ajuc 11y ago
Can't edit anymore. This album is probably my favorite http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/rise-of-the-obsidian-interstellar http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/rise-of-the-obsidian-in...
dcsommer 11y ago
I've been using the somewhat annoying term "art music" instead of classical music to unpack carefully and artistically crafted music from music purely for commercial entertainment / not intended for close critique. The instruments used largely don't matter -- Chopin is indeed beautiful in certain chip tune arrangements. I'll make a slight digression here though by asserting that keeping live performers in the loop adds an additional unreplaceable layer to the music, since the performer then gets to interpert the original music and highlight new patterns within the music. Unfortunately I don't know specific books to learn this appreciation (although I know there are excellent ones out there) -- I was raised in this tradition and absorbed it through violin lessons, practice on my instrument, theory class, history class, and listening to a lot of classical music.