People don't tend to notice this but they're often heavily influenced by artst genres like progressive rock or contemporary classical, Arvo Part could be straight up used as Minecraft music
who gives a fuck retard
>>737959821OP
Best Vidya composers take from multiple sources.Best part of Kirby music is how jazz is basically the baseline to most of the compositions and really elevates alot of the intense tracks.
>decide to check out some classical music>put on some Stravinsky>it's just 1 hour of OG Rathalos theme
>>737961306stravinky, holst, vaughn williams, debussy, ravelbest classical game music steals liberally
Video game music isn't 'experimental' per say, but it isn't confined to the same constrictions as pop music generally is (popular, trendy styles, verse chorus verse chorus structures, lyricisim) as video game music is more contextual, so video game music's allowed to pull from a wider variety of sounds and attracts a higher pool of talented composers.You see this in any soundtrack music regardless of medium (television shows, movies, anime, etc).You can find math rock, death metal or free jazz in video game soundtracks, but I can't tell you the last time a math rock, death metal or free jazz group appeared on the radio.
vidya music is mostly instrumentals that go hard.
>>737959780To be quite frank with you, I would take experimental AND "experimental" music over orchestraslop all day any day.
>>737961916Plus, there's specific styles or genre combinations that you really only ever hear IN video game music that you won't find real groups or bands play.
>>737961483John Williams and Hanz Zimmer kekAlso plenty of movies like The Arrival or Platoon use contemporary classical OST's-when I found that out I was dumbfounded
>>737962201>there's specific styles or genre combinations that you really only ever hear IN video game music that you won't find real groups or bands playpost one
>>737962267EvergraceI tried looking into "avant-folk" music and still couldn't really find anything like ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eixa_TizUuc
>>737959821hey man, that was really mean. :(
Reminder that NIN made a soundtrack for Quake
>>737959821I'm not the one that thinks it's a compliment to be a based 2d thinker.
>>737961306kek
>>737962267Whatever the fuck is LISA:The Painful/Joyful's OST, it has this weirdly specific character only found in it and fangames.Same can be said for that specific music subgenre that madness combat uses (including the game).
Yeah, vidya music comes in many flavorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk20SSvgo_Q
>>737962704>Whatever the fuck is LISA:The Painful/Joyful's OSThttps://rateyourmusic.com/genre/wonky-techno/
Maybe the reason gamers only listen to vidya OST was because they subconciously got used to niche genres and are appalled by how boring popslop is?
>>737963293Not a real genre.There are real genres and then there are contrived categories that faggots constantly try to invent to give themselves a crumble of relevancy.
>>737963949this is a 30 year old term btw
Video game music isn't made to be listened to, it's made to enhance the game experience. Only autistics listen to OSTs and it's usually a self comfort thing. You're trying to relive the experience of existing in a digital world you like more than the real one.
>>737964356This doesn't explain why people regularly listen to video game music from games that they never played, but go ahead and play armchair psychology I guess.
>>737961098Tell me more about kirby.>jazzMy ost is based on French jazz rap
>>737964073>Implying that attention-seeking faggots are a modern invention.They're not.Millennials did the %NOUN%step/wave shit, zoomers do the %NOUN%core shit and earlier generations just straight up made up words (zydeco etc..) but it's the same needless hair splitting in the end.
>>737964531>Tell me more about kirby.he sucks
>>737965282...like a vacuum!
>>737962267Chrono cross and starcraft
Yeah I noticed a long time ago. There's also tons of games that have jazz and jazz fusion-inspired music. Vidya music is really great sometimes.
>>737964531https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIl1rmHwgoMhe is a pink guy
>>737964967>zoomers do the %NOUN%core shit-core is almost entirely a gen-x phenomenon lmao
>>737959821I care. I asked.
>>737959780the requirements of vidya music are very different than normal music, specifically the need to loop endlessly.also, only one person is usually doing the composing, and all off keyboard and sequencer, which isn't typical of most bands.then there is (in the past at least) the massive technical constraints on memory size and audio DSP capabilities.it's easy to understand why it would typically be so different.
Playing the ps1 final fantasy trilogy as a kid, then discovering prog rock later was eye opening, like - oh, uemetsu was just a massive prog nerd.Also playing spyro, then listening to the police and immediately noticing the similarities.Tim Folin is another example.That's all I can think of for now, but id like to know of other composers with clear influences.
>>737961306>just 1 hour of OG Rathalos?>>737961483Most new music consists of old songs. That has been true for at least 70 years.>>737961916Nor can you tell which good games use math rock>>737962251>Hanz ZimmerMight've done damage for a hundred yea>j. WilliamsLiterally who
>>737959821Rude. I do.
>>737964356>Video game music isn't made to be listened to,?>>737964460People like it because it's free of propaganda, chart restrictions and the same faces that linger in the music 'industry'. One of the worst ogliopols on this planet.
>>737965282Doesn't he>>737965401Unbelievable, he never quits!
>>737965401
I don't know a ton about classical music, but it recently clicked to me that a lot of Pokémon's music seems to be inspired by baroque era stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWRNLaCMJgI can totally hear this shit being played on harpsichords.
>>737959780>Breath of the Wild has almost no music whatsoever>Like one of it's only tracks, the battle theme, is just ripped straight from Tarkus
>>737967202>Based Uematsu save me from the commie nigger hippity hops!You are just worthless. Unfit to even breathe
>>737966982You can def hear pink floyd's influence in mitsudas early stuff. Prog seems to work well for vidya theming.
>>737968338>embellishes the original claimhow feminine
Gamers have the worst music taste out of anyone I've ever known. Like genuinely most of you are actual retards who never had friends or even went to a party. What the fuck would you know about it?
>>737961916>math rock, death metal or free jazzNone of that is even remotely experimental either.
>>737969019Fantastic reading comprehension.
>>737969176Clearly your writing ability isn't good enough, if you can't catch the implication you made
>>737962381there are a couple tracks I genuinely enjoy, the rest just sound like the bad kind of noisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ie0xbQ53rg
>>737969227>writing abilityIt's a 4chan post, but regardless the first line literally makes it clear that video game music isn't experimental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opi5TYPUezwdrakengard remains some of the most interesting orchestral work anyone has done in the past 20 years.
>>737969285>video game music isn't experimental>[...]>"here are some things I would consider experimental that you can find in video games"Is a perfectly valid reading of the post.
>>737969368>here are some things I would consider experimentalYou literally just made that up.
>>737969409It is a natural expectation, you are replying to a thread about "experimental music".
>>737967989Some snippets from older songs have been used a couple of thousand times. Music production now is just remixing snippets. Plenty of #1 hits use stock sounds.
>>737968627Had to read it twice.>>737968338Ywnbaw, poor soul.>he thinks black people run the music industry Cool it with the anti-semitism
they have way more room to experiment since nobody takes vidya as seriously as other media
>>737964460That seems pretty uncommon to me. If you look at the comments of vidya OSTs they're usually full of people reminiscing about childhood. They're rarely commenting on the composition/instruments.
>>737970331Nigger go read the comments of literally any commercially released music and you'll come to the same conclusionEven classical music performances and uploads will mostly have "this goes hard" plastered everywhere with no actual deep commentaryAs it turns out most people don't have the musical vocabulary or interest in learning it to discuss these things
>>737959780Yes
