![]() ![]() Koshiro and Kawashima playing Sónar festival. For many players, these events are their first experience of a concert hall – and a demonstration of the potential of video games as a medium for composition. Similar concerts featuring music from The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy take place in London and across the world. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recently performed pieces of music from Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil and The Last of Us at the Royal Albert Hall. When they finish, they don’t sign gig tickets and T-shirts they sign game cartridges and consoles. Koshiro and Kawashima play at some of the greatest nightclubs in the world, with recent performances including Fabric in London and Liquid Room in Tokyo. It was one of the greatest thrills of my life,” says Dwyer. It was incredible to see a room full of adults going so, so crazy to music that had only previously existed within a video game. Now they’re playing it live, exactly as it sounded on the Sega Mega Drive, to audiences of over 5,000 people. He’s just returned home from Sónar festival with Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima, two video game composers responsible for the music in the Streets of Rage video games, first released in 1991. Nick Dwyer is the host of Red Bull’s Diggin’ in the Carts series, a video and radio show exploring the history of video game music. Music originally composed for games also has a lively presence outside of them. ‘It was incredible to see a room full of adults going crazy to music that had only previously existed within a video game’. Acrobatic remote-control-car football game Rocket League, meanwhile, surpassed 40 million players at the start of this year and regularly adds new music to its tracklist, letting players click through to listen on Spotify outside the game. When Steve Aoki’s track Azukita was featured in the game for two weeks, its streams increased by 2.3m. Beat Fever is a mobile game helping to generate better engagement between players and musicians: players tap along to their favourite music and are then invited to stream the tracks in full on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. The heyday of music games like Guitar Hero has passed, but now games integrate with services like Spotify. The Aerosmith-themed version of Guitar Hero made the band more money than any of their albums. While streaming is credited for helping to save the music industry from its stranglehold of illegal downloads and piracy, video games were helping it survive through the dark times of the late 00s. Clearly, no medium in the history of recorded music can deliver such massive and instantaneous global exposure.” Any given song in Fifa 19 – whether it’s a new track by an established act or the debut of an unknown artist – will be heard around the world nearly 1bn times. “We knew that video games could become what MTV and commercial radio had once been in the 80s and 90s. “We often begin working on a soundtrack almost a year in advance, trying to identify new music we believe will define the sound of the coming season,” Schnur says. ![]()
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