Prog Rock
The Development Of Video Game Music
The gestation of the video game music library is extensive and peculiar. To the uninitiated, the chip tunes of the 80s and early 90s video game were ear-bleeding nonsense. But with these limited resources, the skilled composers of the more significant titles often came up with quite catchy melodies. Households internationally are haunted by the echoes of Dreams Come True’s Sonic the Hedgehog soundtracks, and decades on, parents who have never even touched a joypad can recognise such tunes. Even now, the grating electronic sound of these early chips is among the many retro-stylings of the modern Indie titles. Though they tend to eskew the single-layered simplicity of 80s and early 90s tunes, games like ‘Super Meat Boy’ feature many of these old sounds in multi-layered soundtracks.
The noughties are widely recognised as the point at which proper audio fidelity was achieved in games, but the nineties featured many notable landmarks. The PC was the site of the greatest share of innovation. Whilst incumbent consoles languished with midi-style chips and low quality audio, the sound card market was booming and moving into DVD quality surround sound systems. Dynamic music in Lucasarts titles like ‘Monkey Island 2′ was a particularly bold endeavour. The instruments in Lucasarts’ midi system were capable of seguing neatly between scenes and other actions on screen without the need to pause. In music composed for games in the later 90s, the techniques of electronica production musicwere widely used. Notable examples of this kind of music being widely used were found in the Unreal engine titles ‘Unreal’ and ‘Deus Ex’: total sound fidelity was finally a reality.
It was around this time that games musicians became more like experimental artists. Relic Entertainment’s debut title ‘Homeworld’ was particularly renowned for its ‘Industrial Arabic’ soundtrack, which went a long way to imbuing the cold polygons with the backstory of a desert-bound race attempting to find its planetary home. ‘Homeworld’ was also somewhat innovative for using both a choir (‘Agnus Dei’, ‘Adagio for Strings’ in vocal form) and a guest artist (Yes) on the soundtrack. Just ten years before, many home computers were choosing between the music or the sound effects Library.
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