Excellent article and a brilliant read. There's a couple of points i'd like to add a comment to, mainly in the section where you guys talk about whether video game music composers could achieve the same acclaim as movie composers in the future.
The part where Nick talks about an annual poll by Classic FM that has featured the likes of Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura in recent years, that is the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame and it is actually a poll of the top 300 pieces of orchestral music voted for by the station's listeners, whether those pieces are from classical masters such as Mozart and Beethoven, film & TV composers including John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones) and Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), and in the last few years a variety of VGM composers. Last year's top 300, which is broadcast over the Easter weekend, included scores from 8 different video game series (Viva Pinata and Banjo Kazooie by Grant Kirkhope, The Elder Scrolls, The Legend of Zelda, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, World of Warcraft, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy).
Also on Saturday nights until December 9th, Classic FM is currently airing a series called High Score, which is the UK's (and possibly Europe's) first and only series on national radio dedicated to video game music. The series runs for 6 episodes (the first two have already been aired on 4th and 11th November, but you can catch up with them online on Classic FM's listen again service) and is hosted by Jessica Curry, who is a VGM composer herself and won the BAFTA Games Best Music Award in 2016 for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
The main reason for mentioning this is that I co-run an account on Twitter called @WeLoveGameMusic, which campaigns for the wider recognition of VGM. We discuss anything to do with VGM, including soundtracks for upcoming and recently released games, live video game music concerts and shows, podcasts, media articles and interviews with composers, and we are hoping that not only we will be able to attend the Diggin In The Carts' World Tour when it comes to London on November 30th, but that we can persuade other VGM fans in and around London to consider going as well.
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Re: Feature: Diggin' In The Carts Host Nick Dwyer On How Video Game Music Has Come Of Age
Excellent article and a brilliant read. There's a couple of points i'd like to add a comment to, mainly in the section where you guys talk about whether video game music composers could achieve the same acclaim as movie composers in the future.
The part where Nick talks about an annual poll by Classic FM that has featured the likes of Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura in recent years, that is the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame and it is actually a poll of the top 300 pieces of orchestral music voted for by the station's listeners, whether those pieces are from classical masters such as Mozart and Beethoven, film & TV composers including John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones) and Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), and in the last few years a variety of VGM composers. Last year's top 300, which is broadcast over the Easter weekend, included scores from 8 different video game series (Viva Pinata and Banjo Kazooie by Grant Kirkhope, The Elder Scrolls, The Legend of Zelda, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, World of Warcraft, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy).
Also on Saturday nights until December 9th, Classic FM is currently airing a series called High Score, which is the UK's (and possibly Europe's) first and only series on national radio dedicated to video game music. The series runs for 6 episodes (the first two have already been aired on 4th and 11th November, but you can catch up with them online on Classic FM's listen again service) and is hosted by Jessica Curry, who is a VGM composer herself and won the BAFTA Games Best Music Award in 2016 for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
The main reason for mentioning this is that I co-run an account on Twitter called @WeLoveGameMusic, which campaigns for the wider recognition of VGM. We discuss anything to do with VGM, including soundtracks for upcoming and recently released games, live video game music concerts and shows, podcasts, media articles and interviews with composers, and we are hoping that not only we will be able to attend the Diggin In The Carts' World Tour when it comes to London on November 30th, but that we can persuade other VGM fans in and around London to consider going as well.