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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:06 am   Post subject: Article: Magical challenge of video game music Reply with quote

A short but interesting article on BBC News, also including samples from Red A lert and Harry Potter.

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How do you write a soundtrack for something which doesn't follow a conventional linear narrative? That's the challenge faced by composers when writing the music for computer games.

With games of films now standard - and movies centring on characters from computer games, it is easy to see similarities between the two.

But creating the music for a film and for a computer game are very different tasks. says composer James Hannigan, whose credits include the last two Harry Potter games, and Command and Conquer Red A lert 3. He also writes for television and film.


Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7932390.stm
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