Love the earthy rumble of timpani as it stirs your imagination to battle and beyond? Thirst for the fluttering whispers of woodwinds as they take us on an other-wordly journey? Want to see and hear it all, but from one of your favorite video game companies of all time?
Get psyched for Video Games Live, this summer featuring Blizzard in a concert representing the music we've all come to love from all our favorite video games!
The PBS special -- consisting of never before televised live musical performances from the Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Castlevania, God of War, Civilization, Chrono Cross, StarCraft and Guitar Hero franchises, and a musical journey through classic gaming -- premieres July 31, 2010 and airs throughout August on PBS stations (check your local listings athttp://pbs.org/tvschedules). Support your local PBS station now -- you make it possible for your PBS station to offer amazing performances and the opportunity to discover something new every day, whether on TV or online. To donate to your local PBS station, visit http://pbs.org/support
Official Blizzard Quote:
If you love videogame music, be sure to check out @VideoGames_Live on @PBS this summer featuring #Blizzard music: http://cot.ag/9cv7iJ
WOW has one of the best game soundtracks ever. this is really cool.
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Very interesting. Music is a huge part of games and it's good it's having a fair share of the attention through such shows.
Though why would mario need an orchestra is beyond me... Ok I admit I never liked the game much. It entertained me when I was 6 years old but that was it. :starwars:
Wait a second... soundtrack from Guitar Hero? So what they're saying is that Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Muse, System of a Down etc. will be played?
Didn't see that one coming...
EDIT: On a more serious note, things like this are kick-ass. Video-game music is always at its great when played by an orchestra like this.
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I couldn't disagree more with the way they are trying to potray this. it's all like "omg, we're so awesome, we make kids listen to symphonies".
We'll I don't think the few comment in there made any great impression on me, it was mostly the regular cut&paste responses to why something is "good".
well yes, you are listening to symphonies basically, but not anything real. this is great music for me, but REAL classical music is just something beyond me and I have yet to understand it, and willingly go and listen to symphonies.
Hang on here, not real? Why would any of Beethoven's symphonies be any greater than this (theoretically speaking)?
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Classical music technically can't even be created anymore because it's only from a specific period of musical history. A lot of this is contemporary or post-modern, which usually entails mixing a different variety of instruments (or genres) than is normally accepted in to a new and creative form. For instance, rock and orchestra is a popular one. But, for the simplicity of listeners, some stuff today is still labeled "classical." I learned that last semester. I guess it's true enough.
Archaic holdings on classical music, and even music from outside video games, is largely what keeps video games from accomplishing their full potential. For some stupid reason, people think movies are some how more "creatively attunated" than video games, and music beyond movies even more so. These are just lame excuses, in most cases, for professionals to dismiss, without fully engaging, the power of video games as an entertainment, educational, and dynamic medium.
In the past couple hundred years, theatre has been considered the pinnacle of entertainment because it integrated visual, musical, and spoken art forms. Over the last two decades, directors of theatre, and even movies, have tried avidly to bring a more dynamic and collaborative (with the audience) potential to their mediums. Unfortunately, for both theatre and movies, such attempts will usually fall short as hokey, or are limited in the degree of the sensations they can involve (3D, involving the audience in live performances, etc.). Video games, however, brought to the table an unprecedented level of interactivity than any medium so far, and can involve all the art forms equally well.
I surmise that such stereotypical holdings on what is "real" music are based purely on nostalgic and ultra-exclusive attitudes that do not give any mediums but the norms a fair chance in creative society, and that attitude needs to change: it is that attitude that is, of its own accord, pushing younger generations away from venerated classical sources.
Classical music technically can't even be created anymore because it's only from a specific period of musical history. A lot of this is contemporary or post-modern, which usually entails mixing a different variety of instruments (or genres) than is normally accepted in to a new and creative form. For instance, rock and orchestra is a popular one. But, for the simplicity of listeners, some stuff today is still labeled "classical." I learned that last semester. I guess it's true enough.
Archaic holdings on classical music, and even music from outside video games, is largely what keeps video games from accomplishing their full potential. For some stupid reason, people think movies are some how more "creatively attunated" than video games, and music beyond movies even more so. These are just lame excuses, in most cases, for professionals to dismiss, without fully engaging, the power of video games as an entertainment, educational, and dynamic medium.
In the past couple hundred years, theatre has been considered the pinnacle of entertainment because it integrated visual, musical, and spoken art forms. Over the last two decades, directors of theatre, and even movies, have tried avidly to bring a more dynamic and collaborative (with the audience) potential to their mediums. Unfortunately, for both theatre and movies, such attempts will usually fall short as hokey, or are limited in the degree of the sensations they can involve (3D, involving the audience in live performances, etc.). Video games, however, brought to the table an unprecedented level of interactivity than any medium so far, and can involve all the art forms equally well.
I surmise that such stereotypical holdings on what is "real" music are based purely on nostalgic and ultra-exclusive attitudes that do not give any mediums but the norms a fair chance in creative society, and that attitude needs to change: it is that attitude that is, of its own accord, pushing younger generations away from venerated classical sources.
Somehow, I find the instrumentally very simple Tristram theme (the original) much more effective than a giant bombastic orchestra. But that's how I've always been, I think.
Still fabulous pieces, of course.
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Get psyched for Video Games Live, this summer featuring Blizzard in a concert representing the music we've all come to love from all our favorite video games!
Official Blizzard Quote:
If you love videogame music, be sure to check out @VideoGames_Live on @PBS this summer featuring #Blizzard music: http://cot.ag/9cv7iJ
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
Though why would mario need an orchestra is beyond me... Ok I admit I never liked the game much. It entertained me when I was 6 years old but that was it. :starwars:
Soundtracks from the game 'Hitman'. Seriously underrated.
[spoil]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsjLPF5JaY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqaYuuJLg4[/spoil]
Didn't see that one coming...
EDIT: On a more serious note, things like this are kick-ass. Video-game music is always at its great when played by an orchestra like this.
I agree with Necro, the Hitman soundtrack is underrated.
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Hang on here, not real? Why would any of Beethoven's symphonies be any greater than this (theoretically speaking)?
Archaic holdings on classical music, and even music from outside video games, is largely what keeps video games from accomplishing their full potential. For some stupid reason, people think movies are some how more "creatively attunated" than video games, and music beyond movies even more so. These are just lame excuses, in most cases, for professionals to dismiss, without fully engaging, the power of video games as an entertainment, educational, and dynamic medium.
In the past couple hundred years, theatre has been considered the pinnacle of entertainment because it integrated visual, musical, and spoken art forms. Over the last two decades, directors of theatre, and even movies, have tried avidly to bring a more dynamic and collaborative (with the audience) potential to their mediums. Unfortunately, for both theatre and movies, such attempts will usually fall short as hokey, or are limited in the degree of the sensations they can involve (3D, involving the audience in live performances, etc.). Video games, however, brought to the table an unprecedented level of interactivity than any medium so far, and can involve all the art forms equally well.
I surmise that such stereotypical holdings on what is "real" music are based purely on nostalgic and ultra-exclusive attitudes that do not give any mediums but the norms a fair chance in creative society, and that attitude needs to change: it is that attitude that is, of its own accord, pushing younger generations away from venerated classical sources.
Hear, hear!
Still fabulous pieces, of course.
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No idea. This is just going off their Twitter update and the tiny bit I could find on their Youtube video.
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