[NewMusic] three-fisted RANT about 'video games live'

[lx rudis]

hah, you're up also!

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:57 AM, barry threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It seems like most of the joy from the audience is just stemming from
> the identification of games. This is fun...I guess.
>

yes, exactly.  ...and i probly shouldn''t be too judgemental - for some folk
it _is_ fun, and more power to them.
they get to ID stuff from their youth, there's that irony component,
symphonies usually sound pretty good no matter what they're playing...

interesting though. As if somehow orchestrating this music makes it
> more real,
>

that's probably what set me off.

>or gives it greater value...

yah.  sigh.  i give up. i have to acknowledge that for a certain percentage
out there, this _does_ give videogame music greater value.

but ...arrrrgh... does it even _need_ greater value?  any value?

this stuff doesn't usually get listened to in the way other musics are
listened to:  you're stuck in some dungeon for about five hours battling
armed hellhounds, and the same tune plays over and over until your brain
boils and you mute the audio.  :D