While digitizing their older content, the BBC discovered that they have the first recording of a computer playing music. The recording is a good 6 years before IBM had their mainframe play music at Bell Labs in 1957. Check the link to hear Ferranti Mark 1 computer play God Save the King, Baa [...]
Game Trailers managed to get Jonathan Davis from Korn to talk about their recent song for Haze, the upcoming game from Ubisoft.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is coming out soon and I think everyone has pretty high hopes for it. It’s been a long time since those days of playing a dark one in KOTOR. Aside from the obvious qualities SW:TFU will have, we’ll also be able to look forward to some great orchestration. Music4Games recently [...]
NPR has an excellent piece on the evolution of game music, spurred by the latest fascination of hearing it played by live orchestras.
You can hear the 12 minute piece in it’s entirety here.
Gamespot is reporting that Activision has finally found a way to settle out of court with the people that bought Guitar Hero III for the Wii. The problem, in case you missed it, was that the initial run of GHIII on the Wii was only outputting mono audio. Kind of a big mistake. Read more [...]
Music4Games has an interview up with Sascha Dikiciyan, a musician with a laundry list of credits as long as my arm, including Splinter Cell: Double Agent, God of War 2, and as far back as Quake.
I must admit, I post this mostly due to my love for the Quake 2 soundtrack. Long [...]
ign took a little trip to Trackdown Studios in Sydney, Australia to check in on The Eminence Orchestra, who just so happened to have been working on the soundtrack for Soul Calibur IV. It’s a terse trip but worth reading.
[Read it here]
Judging by this blog post from Bionic Commando’s Producer Ben Judd, it would appear he’s pretty darn excited about the new music for both Bionic Commando and it’s 2D counterpart Bionic Commando Rearmed. You can take a listen at the game’s website, or jump to the player right here.
