History in the Making: Civ IV's Theme Wins a Grammy
I wrote, previously: “for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy award, in the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists” category.
What has this to do with Ultima? Absolutely nothing. It’s just an important milestone for games, in general.
It’s sometimes easy to forget, because it’s not the primary focus of a game, that many AAA-rate games feature excellent music, worthy of any movie soundtrack and eminently listenable in their own right. It’s no accident that I have a good half-dozen game soundtracks on my iPhone right now; some darned fine music has been produced to accompany many of the games I have enjoyed playing in recent years.”
Well…last night, Baba Yetu won, marking the first time in history that a piece from a game soundtrack has captured the prestigious award.
So…major congratulations to Christopher Tin for his win, and let’s hope this will be the first of many such wins scored by game soundtrack composers; Lord British knows there are any number of worthy possibilities already in existence.
My OST directory contains:
17824 items, totalling 55.1 GB
That doesn’t include what’s still seeding in Azureus (a shiite-load), my collection of emulated music (NES, SNES, etc.), or my stack of import CDs from my pre-bittorrent days. Video game music rocks.
I agree that’s it’s interesting, but I’d have to say that like most award shows it’s a bit of a hollow shell, and a bit too late.